Palaeoproteomics of non-identifiable medium bovid bones from the LSA deposits of Diepkloof Rock Shelter and Faraoskop, Western Cape, South Africa

This application is part of my PhD project aimed at investigates the influence of herding practices on Later Stone Age foragers’ subsistence strategies in the Western Cape of South Africa. The project involves the following researchers: Prof. John Parkington and Louisa Hutten from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cape Town; Dr. Sara Rhodes (co-supervisor) from the Universidade do Algarve in Portugal; Dr Aurore Val (co-supervisor) from CNRS, Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Préhistoire Europe Afrique (LAMPEA) and Dr. Louise Le Meillour from the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. We are applying to SAHRIS for a temporary permit to export non-identifiable medium-sized bovid bones from Diepkloof Rock Shelter and Faraoskop to be analysed using palaeoproteomics at the Globe Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. The specimens (n = 90 from Diepkloof and n = 47 from Faraoskop) come from the Terminal Holocene (Later Stone Age) deposits at both sites, located in the Western Cape of South Africa.