Online data visualisation of: Anyskop Blowout (Earlier Stone Age) using the archeoViz web application Visualisation en ligne des données de : Anyskop Blowout (Earlier Stone Age) avec l'application web archeoViz

Online data visualisation of: Anyskop Blowout (Earlier Stone Age) using the archeoViz web application Anyskop Blowout is an open-air site located in the Saldanha Bay Municipality, near in the West Coast Fossil Park in South Africa. In 2001 and 2002 researchers from the University of Tübingen in collaboration with South African and international scientists conducted a large-scale survey. The main motivation for the research was to examine how Stone Age people used the landscape in the past and to examine Hilary Deacon’s hypothesis that Acheulean land use patterns were tied to water sources. Thus the work at Anyskop helps complete a record of Stone Age lifeways and settlement dynamics that has often neglected such low-density open-air sites. The stable dune field at Anyskop provides an ideal setting for looking at the distribution of artifacts on the landscape. Remains attributed to the Earlier and Middle Stone Ages were found, providing evidence of ephemeral occupations across the landscape. The data set presented here includes 3016 remains, mainly lithic and faunal remains and "features". Lithic objects were assigned relative ages (Earlier, Middle, and Later Stone Age, including the Howiesons Poort MSA substage). Features refers to limits demarcating (mostly burned) concentrations of calcrete stones, interpreted as stone hearths.
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