ABSTRACT

Lotshitshi is a small site on the edge of the Thamalakane River floodplain on the southern margin of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. A component with Later Stone Age lithic artefacts radiocarbon-dated to the second/third millennia BC is overlain by a component with the same kind of stone tools, but with the addition of Bambata pottery and domestic cattle radiocarbon-dated to the earlier decades of the first century AD. A component with Recent pottery is at the top of this sequence. Although modest in size and content, Lotshitshi adds valuable details to our knowledge of Bambata pottery-making peoples with cattle and provides additional evidence for the movement of peoples during this time from the Chobe-Zambezi confluence region to western Botswana, thus supplementing efforts to understand Early Iron Age population dynamics in southern Africa as a whole.

摘要

Lotshitshi 是博茨瓦纳奥卡万戈三角洲南缘 Thamalakane 河漫滩边缘的一个小遗址。具有放射性碳年代后期石器时代石器制品的组件被具有相同类型石器的组件覆盖，但增加了 Bambata 陶器和家畜放射性碳年代为公元前几十年公元一世纪。Recent pottery 的组件位于此序列的顶部。虽然规模和内容不大，但 Lotshitshi 增加了我们对 Bambata 陶器制作民族与牛的知识的宝贵细节，并为这一时期从乔贝-赞比西河汇流地区到博茨瓦纳西部的民族迁移提供了额外的证据，