Context (Field collection)
Excavated by Dr Pat Carter in 1971.
Event Date 1971
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (Related Documents)
See MAA archive number AR2/2/1 for excavation diaries and notebooks from Pat Carter's excavation of Sehonghong.
Event Date 1971
Author: Enrico Cioni

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Context (References)
Carter, P.L. and J.C. Vogel. (1974). 'The Dating of Industrial Assemblages from Stratified Sites in Eastern Lesotho'. Man, New Series, vol. 9, no. 4. pp. 557-570.
Event Date 1974
Author: Enrico Cioni

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Context (References)
Carter, P.L. (1976). 'The Effects of Climatic Change of Settlement in Eastern Lesotho during the Middle and Later Stone Age'. World Archaeology, vol. 8, no. 2. pp. 197-206.
Event Date 1976
Author: Enrico Cioni

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Context (References)
Carter, P.L. (1978). The Prehistory of Eastern Lesotho. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge.
Event Date 1978
Author: Enrico Cioni

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Context (References)
Carter, P.L., P.J. Mitchell and P. Vinnicombe. (1988). Sehonghong: The Middle and Later Stone Age Industrial Sequence at a Lesotho Rock-Shelter. Oxford: B.A.R.
Event Date 1988
Author: Enrico Cioni

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Context (Acquisition Details)
Material on permanent loan from the Government of Lesotho. Obtained through Pat Carter, then Senior Assistant Curator, in September 1991.
Event Date 9/1991
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Description (Physical description)
All excavated material.
Event Date 18/9/1991
Author: maa

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Context (References)
Mitchell, P.J. (1992). 'Archaeological Research in Lesotho: A Review of 120 Years'. The African Archaeological Review, vol. 10. pp. 3-34.
Event Date 1992
Author: Enrico Cioni

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Context (References)
Loftus, Emma et al. (2015). ‘Stable isotope evidence of late MIS 3 to middle Holocene palaeoenvironments from Sehonghong Rockshelter, eastern Lesotho’. Journal of Quaternary Science, 30(8). pp 805-816
Event Date 2015
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Lithics from excavation context.
Event Date 28/9/2015
Author: maa

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Context (Amendments / updates)
When accessioned, all the material from Pat Carter's excavation of Sehonghong, Lesotho was given a single accession number: 1991.135. At some later point, this large accession number was subdivided into 40 individual catalogue records (i.e. 1991.135/Record 1, 1991.135/Record 2, etc.), each corresponding to an individual storage box. The accession register entry gave multiple dates for each accession number, including: Middle Stone Age, Later Stone Age and Iron Age. In 2015, Enrico Cioni received a Crowther-Beynon Grant to improve all records relating to Carter's Lesotho collection, including adding excavation numbers, archival and bibliographic references, and clarifying descriptions, correct periods and materials wherever possible. The excavation numbers added to the Other Numbers field take the form of: site code square and spit, i.e. SH71 K9 1.
Event Date 28/9/2015
Author: Enrico Cioni

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Context (Amendments / updates)
The Sehonghong excavation material was accessioned as a single idno (1991.135), and was later assigned suffixes (/Record 1 to /Record 40) and records, each corresponding to an individual storage box. The decision was taken to replace this suffix form with a numeric suffix (/Record 22 is now .22) and each bag within that box was assigned its own letter suffix (A to Z) and record (e.g. 1991.135.22 A). As this box contained more than 26 bags, the remaining bags as a group were assigned the next in the numeric sequence of suffixes (1991.135.42), and then each bag its own letter suffix and record.
Event Date 19/5/2022
Author: Emily Shorter

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Description (Physical description)
Bag containing two pieces of red stone, possibly ochre.
Event Date 20/5/2022
Author: Emily Shorter