Moshebi's shelter at fifty: Reinvestigating the Later Stone Age of the Sehlabathebe Basin, Lesotho

Professional archaeology in Lesotho was initiated 50 years ago when Pat Carter, working with Patricia Vinnicombe, excavated the site of Moshebi's Shelter Sehlabathebe Basin. His excavations there identified a sequence both Middle and Later Stone Age (LSA) industries, latter falling within last 2200 years. However, never fully published Carter's use 10-cm-thick spits to excavate its deposits raises questions about precise stratigraphic provenance finds made. As part renewed investigations into hunter-gatherer/farmer interactions highland Lesotho, LSA were re-excavated 2009. This paper summarizes results archaeological recovered, their dating using radiocarbon OSL techniques, implications for past human wider Maloti-Drakensberg landscape.