[PDF] Marothodi The Historical Archaeology Of An African Capital eBook

Author : Mark Steven Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,41 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 9780956142764

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Deep in the heart of southern Africa, the ruins of a colossal stone walled town bear silent testimony to an African way of life almost forgotten ... Undisturbed since it was abandoned nearly two centuries ago, Marothodi was the royal capital of a Tlokwa chiefdom, the metal-producing ancestors of a community still living in South Africa and Botswana. Using an interdisciplinary combination of archaeology, history, ethnography and oral tradition, the remarkable legacy of Marothodi and its people can now be explored. Filled with the results of recent research and over 170 maps, plans, photographs and illustrations, this book introduces the historical archaeology of one of the great Iron Age Tswana towns of South Africa, and tells a fascinating story of pre-colonial African achievement.

Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1077 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0199569886

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This Handbook provides a comprehensive synthesis of African archaeology, covering the entirety of the continent's past from the beginnings of human evolution to the archaeological legacy of European colonialism. It includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates and situates the subject's contemporary practice.

Author : Rachel King
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 3030184129

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This book explores how objects, landscapes, and architecture were at the heart of how people imagined outlaws and disorder in colonial southern Africa. Drawing on evidence from several disciplines, it chronicles how cattle raiders were created, pursued, and controlled, and how modern scholarship strives to reconstruct pasts of disruption and deviance. Through a series of vignettes, Rachel King uses excavated material, rock art, archival texts, and object collections to explore different facets of how disorderly figures were shaped through impressions of places and material culture as much as actual transgression. Addressing themes from mobility to wilderness, historiography to violence, resistance to development, King details the world that raiders made over the last two centuries in southern Africa while also critiquing scholars’ tools for describing this world. Offering inter-disciplinary perspectives on the past in Africa’s southernmost mountains, this book grapples with concepts relevant to those interested in rule-breakers and rule-makers, both in Africa and the wider world.

Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1009324764

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Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition. Building on its rich rock art heritage, archaeologists have developed theoretical work that continues to influence rock art studies worldwide, with the relationship between archaeological and anthropological data central to understanding past hunter-gatherer, pastoralist, and farmer communities alike. New work on pre-colonial states contests models that previously explained their emergence via external trade, while the transformations wrought by European colonialism are being rewritten to emphasise Indigenous agency, feeding into efforts to decolonise the discipline itself. Inhabited by humans longer than almost anywhere else and with an unusually varied, complex past, southern Africa thus has much to contribute to archaeology worldwide. In this revised and updated edition, Peter Mitchell provides a comprehensive and extensively illustrated synthesis of its archaeology over more than three million years.

Author : Peter R. Schmidt
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 2006-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759114153

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Historical Archaeology in Africa is an inquiry into historical questions that count, proposing different ways of thinking about historical archaeology. Peter Schmidt challenges readers to expand their horizons . Confronting topics of oral traditions, the role of cultural landscapes in social memory, and historical misrepresentations of various cultures, Schmidt calls for a new pathway to an enriched, more nuanced, and more inclusive historical archaeology. Allowing Africa to speak for itself without colonial interpreters, Historical Archaeology in Africa will be of interest not only to historians and archaeologists, but to all concerned with Africa's past and present.

Author : Andrew M. Reid
Publisher : Springer
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1441988637

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This volume explores the range of interactions between the historical sources and archaeology that are available on the African continent. Written by a range of experts on different aspects of African archaeology, this book represents the first consideration of historical archaeology over the African continent as a whole. This seminal volume also explores Africa's place in global systems of thought and economic development and is of interest to historical archaeologists and historians.

Author : François G. Richard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 2015-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1493926330

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This volume investigates the material production and expression of colonial experiences in Africa. It combines archaeological, historical, and ethnographic sources to explore the diverse pathways, practices, and projects constructed by Africans in their engagement with the forces of colonial modernity and capitalism. This volume is situated in ongoing debates in archaeological and anthropological approaches to materiality. In this respect, it seeks to target archaeologists interested in the conceptual issues provoked by colonial enfoldments. It is also concerned with increasing the visibility of relevant African archaeological literature to scholars of colonialism and imperialism laboring in other fields. This book brings together an array of junior and senior scholars, whose contributions represent a rich sample of the vibrant archaeological research conducted in Africa today, blending conceptual inspiration with robust fieldwork. The chapters target a variety of cultural, historical, and colonial settings. They are driven by a plurality of perspectives, but they are bound by a shared commitment to postcolonial, critical, and material culture theories. While this book focuses on western and southern Africa – the sub-regions that boast the deepest traditions of historical archaeological research in the continent – attention was also placed on including case-studies from traditionally less well-represented areas (East African and Swahili coasts, Madagascar), whose material pasts are nevertheless essential to a wider comprehension of variability and comparability of ‘modern’ colonial conditions. Consequently, this volume lends a unique wide-ranging look at African experiences across the tangle of imperial geographies on the continent, with case-studies focusing on Anglophone, Francophone, and Dutch-speaking contexts. This volume is an exciting opportunity to present this work to wider audiences and foster conversations with a wide community of scholars about the material fashioning of colonial life, relations, and configurations of power.

Author : 500 Year Initiative (Group). Conference
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 2008-08
Category : History
ISBN :

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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.