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

莱索托的专业考古始于 50 年前，当时 Pat Carter 与 Patricia Vinnicombe 合作，在 Sehlabathebe 盆地挖掘了 Moshebi 避难所遗址。他在那里的发掘确定了一系列中石器时代和石器时代晚期 (LSA) 行业，后者属于过去 2200 年。然而，该遗址从未完全公布过，卡特使用 10 厘米厚的沙坑挖掘其沉积物引发了对所发现的准确地层来源的质疑。作为对莱索托高地狩猎采集者/农民相互作用重新调查的一部分，2009 年重新挖掘了莫舍比的 LSA 矿床。 本文总结了考古序列恢复的结果，它们使用放射性碳和 OSL 技术确定年代，