Five hundred years rediscovered : southern African precedents and prospects : 500 Year Initiative 2007 conference proceedings

Parallelsachtitel: 500 years rediscovered
Körperschaft: 500 Year Initiative (Group). Conference
Weitere Verfasser: Swanepoel, Natalie.
Esterhuysen, A.
Bonner, P. L.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2008.
Umfang/Format: viii, 284 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: South Africa
Online Zugang: Contributor biographical information
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Historical archaeologies of southern Africa : precedents and prospects / Joanna Behrens and Natalie Swanepoel
  • South Africa in Africa more than five hundred years ago : some questions / Neil Parsons
  • Towards an outline of the oral geography, historical identity and political economy of the late precolonial Tswana in the Rustenburg region / Simon Hall ... [et al.]
  • Metals beyond frontiers : exploring the production, distribution and use of metals in the Free State grasslands, South Africa / Shadreck Chirikure, Simon Hall and Tim Maggs
  • DeTuin, a 19th-century mission station in the Northern Cape / Alan G. Morris
  • Reinterpreting the origins of Dzata : archaeology and legends / Edwin Hanisch
  • Revisiting Bokoni : populating the stone ruins of the Mpumulanga Escarpment / P. Delius and M.H. Schoeman
  • The Mpumalanga Escarpment settlements : some answers, many questions / Tim Maggs
  • Post-European contact glass beads from the southern African interior : a tentative look at trade, consumption and identities / Marilee Wood.
  • Ceramic alliances : pottery and the history of the Kekana Ndebele in the old Transvaal / A.B. Esterhuysen
  • Rediscovering the Ndwandwe kingdom / John Wright
  • Swazi oral tradition and Northern Nguni historical archaeology / Philip Bonner
  • Mfecane mutation in Cental Africa : a comparison of the Makololo and the Ngoni in Zambia, 1830s-1898 / Ackson M. Kanduza.