Evidence of early human-plant interactions and vegetation, particularly grasslands, which prevailed at Sibudu during the MSA occupation, is reconstructed based on the phytolith morphotypes preserved in the archaeological assemblage. The findings of these environmental interpretations are summarised below:
1. This study corroborates previous studies at Sibudu on the extensive use of fire through burning woody and non-woody taxa with grass having been most likely used as tinder. It also corroborates the use of sedges at Sibudu by early humans. They are thought to have been used as bedding at Sibudu (Sievers, 2011; Wadley et al., 2011). The sedge genera that this phytolith study can differentiate in the archaeological record were Cyperus and/Kyllinga. This study suggests that Cucurbitaceae plants were also likely utilised by early humans.
2. An important early human activity is suggested during the Howiesons Poort and is concentrated in two subsequent layers GS2 and GS3. These are dominated by conspicuous brown sub-globular bodies that look very similar to phytoliths from Restionaceae plants that are presently restricted to the Winter Rainfall Zone of South Africa (Cordova, 2013; Esteban, 2016; Esteban et al., 2017). Their phytoliths have been found in the MSA record and interpreted as having been used for bedding by early humans as they resemble sedges and have a similar function (Esteban, 2016;
169 Esteban et al., 2017). The closest resemblance to these bodies in the reference collection was in the tree species of Ficus polita. These two layers at Sibudu appear to tell an important story that seems to start from older layers in the Still Bay and further phytolith analysis needs to investigate and confirm the origin of these sub- globular bodies. These bodies occur with sedge phytoliths and grass phytoliths among others several of which are trapeziform sinuate phytoliths when the whole slide is scanned through indicating a likely presence of C3 subfamily Pooideae grasses.
3. The vegetation at Sibudu is interpreted as having been dominated by C4 grasses throughout this period. C4 grasses of the subfamily Panicoideae were more likely to have been the dominant grass with C4 grasses of the subfamily Chloridoideae occurring in small amounts or were absent. Arundinoideae grasses like Phragmites
australis may have been present during this period as a few very tall rondels were
observed in the archaeological record. Because this grass produces a few saddles, the saddles in the fossil phytolith assemblage may originate from Arundinoideae and not Chloridoideae. During field work, it was collected from the uThongati River below the cave. Cold climate grasses of the subfamily Pooideae (C3) were present in the environment during this period as trapeziform sinuate phytoliths were encountered in very small amounts. It is suggested that C3 and C4 grasses co-existed with C4 grasses prevailing during the warm seasons and C3 Pooideae grasses increasing during cold seasons.
4. The phytolith record suggests that the climate during this period was warm and wet and this led to the dominance of C4 Panicoideae grasses. Grasses characteristic of hot and dry climate (Chloridoideae) may have existed but remained very low. Phytoliths characteristic of these hot climate grasses may have been produced by species such as
Phragmites australis from the nearby river. This phytolith record at Sibudu suggests
that the climate remained stable throughout this period but likely varied with cold periods as C3 Pooideae grasses seem to have existed in small numbers.
170 5. Woody taxa are well represented throughout this period and the vegetation at Sibudu
is therefore interpreted as having been mixed.
6. The presence of sedges in the archaeological record suggests the presence of swampy vegetation and confirms the presence of the uThongati River during this period as corroborated by other studies.
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