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Evidence for contact between hunter-gatherers and agropastoralists from excavated sites in a well-documented frontier zone in the eastern Free State, South Africa, reveals varied intensities of interaction. These interactions range from clientship to relative autonomy. Comparison between recent (eighteenth- to early twentieth-century) hunter-gatherer occupations of rock shelters in the Caledon Valley also suggests that a variety of social relationships between hunter-gatherers and farmers, known ethnographically, occurred simultaneously.
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Thorp, C. Evidence for Interaction from Recent Hunter-Gatherer Sites in the Caledon Valley. African Archaeological Review 14, 231–256 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022207917227
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