The foodplant fitness landscape of Hollow Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa

Studying Stone Age foraging behaviours in terms of plant foods is difficult because preservation, sampling and identification biases. Current foodplant populations, knowledge about their use recent times, how they are distributed across the landscape, provide valuable middle-range proxies from which work on archaeological landscapes material can benefit. With this contribution we lists for three different ranges (radii ∼ 12.5 km, ∼35 70 km) around Hollow Rock Shelter. By comparing data each directly, discuss proportional increases resources when moving further away site. We demonstrate that 35 km range most efficient. This implies people staying at site (for shorter or longer periods) may have regularly employed a strategy temporary camping night two to forage especially preservable could be brought Our highlight potential plant-food staples, show under-surface storage organs (USOs) plants, followed by fruit leaves abundant edible parts available Shelter landscape within all ranges, these eaten raw.