ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the geographically to southern Africa, including the territories of Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Mozambique, Angola, South-West Africa, Bechuanaland, and the Republic of South Africa. In Southern Rhodesia, therefore, from what we can at present learn about early environments, it does not seem that they limited post-Acheulean man's distribution to any marked degree. The chapter reviews the Mio-Pliocene background, then the tectonic stability of the region and the extent of Pleistocene erosion. Much of southern Africa consists of erosion surfaces of various ages. As might be anticipated the amount of lowering during Pleistocene has been negligible. Throughout the Pleistocene, the country has, topographically, looked much as it does now, and has been divisible into three regions: the highveld plateau, the middleveld region, the lowveld. The chapter describes the evidence from the mid-Zambezi region, therefore, indicates very considerable stability over the whole period of time.
