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Author : Brian M. Fagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Iron age
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033938973
Author : Thomas N. Huffman
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131708849
This detailed handbook to the Iron Age covers the last 2,000 years in Southern Africa. The first part of the book outlines essential topics such as settlement organization, stonewalled patterns, ritual residues, long-distance trade, and ancient mining. Part two presents a comprehensive culture-history sequence through ceramic analyses, showing distributions, stylistic types, and characteristic pieces. The final section reviews and updates the main debates about black prehistory, including migration vs. diffusion, the role of cattle, the origins of Mapungubwe, the rise and fall of Great Zimbabwe, as well as the archaeology of the Venda, the Sotho-Tswana, and the Nguni speakers. Handbook to the Iron Age is an abundantly illustrated study that is accessible to a wide range of people interested in African prehistory.
Author : Nikolaas J. Van der Merwe,Thomas N. Huffman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : IND:39000002258817
Author : D. W. Phillipson
Publisher : Africana Pub.
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015000566920
Author : Martin Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : OCLC:145865219
Author : R. R. Inskeep
Publisher : David Philip Publishers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 0949968692
Author : Joseph O. Vogel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135506735
First Published in 1994. This research guide was written as a comprehensive, though by no means exhaustive, survey of the literature pertinent to studying the indigenous complex societies of south central Africa. Although the paramount focus of the compilation was the archaeology of Great Zimbabwe, the author has drawn from a broad geographical area and a wider period of time than that usually associated with Zimbabwean culture in order to demonstrate the cultural background for the growth of monumental trading towns in south central Africa.
Author : Roland Anthony Oliver,Brian M. Fagan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1975-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521099005
A textbook providing the only comprehensive and up-to-date account of African history between 500 B.C. and 1400 A.D. Also useful to students of archaeology.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004500228
This book explores important chapters of past and recent African history from a multidisciplinary perspective. It covers an extensive time range from the evolution of early humans to the complex cultural and genetic diversity of modern-day populations in Africa. Through a comprehensive list of chapters, the book focuses on different time-periods, geographic regions and cultural and biological aspects of human diversity across the continent. Each chapter summarises current knowledge with perspectives from a varied set of international researchers from diverse areas of expertise. The book provides a valuable resource for scholars interested in evolutionary history and human diversity in Africa. Contributors are Shaun Aron, Ananyo Choudhury, Bernard Clist, Cesar Fortes-Lima, Rosa Fregel, Jackson S. Kimambo, Faye Lander , Marlize Lombard, Fidelis T. Masao, Ezekia Mtetwa, Gilbert Pwiti, Michèle Ramsay, Thembi Russell, Carina Schlebusch, Dhriti Sengupta, Plan Shenjere-Nyabezi, Mário Vicente.
Author : Shadreck Chirikure
Publisher : Springer
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319116419
This book seeks to communicate to both a global and local audience, the key attributes of pre-industrial African metallurgy such as technological variation across space and time, methods of mining and extractive metallurgy and the fabrication of metal objects. These processes were transformative in a physical and metaphoric sense, which made them total social facts. Because the production and use of metals was an accretion of various categories of practice, a chaine operatoire conceptual and theoretical framework that simultaneously considers the embedded technological and anthropological factors was used. The book focuses on Africa’s different regions as roughly defined by cultural geography. On the one hand there is North Africa, Egypt, the Egyptian Sudan, and the Horn of Africa which share cultural inheritances with the Middle East and on the other is Africa south of the Sahara and the Sudan which despite interacting with the former is remarkably different in terms of technological practice. For example, not only is the timing of metallurgy different but so is the infrastructure for working metals and the associated symbolic and sociological factors. The cultural valuation of metals and the social positions of metal workers were different too although there is evidence of some values transfer and multi-directional technological cross borrowing. The multitude of permutations associated with metals production and use amply demonstrates that metals participated in the production and reproduction of society. Despite huge temporal and spatial differences there are so many common factors between African metallurgy and that of other regions of the world. For example, the role of magic and ritual in metal working is almost universal be it in Bolivia, Nepal, Malawi, Timna, Togo or Zimbabwe. Similarly, techniques of mining were constrained by the underlying geology but this should not in any way suggest that Africa’s metallurgy was derivative or that the continent had no initiative. Rather it demonstrates that when confronted with similar challenges, humanity in different regions of the world responded to identical challenges in predictable ways mediated as mediated by the prevailing cultural context. The success of the use of historical and ethnographic data in understanding variation and improvisation in African metallurgical practices flags the potential utility of these sources in Asia, Latin America and Europe. Some nuance is however needed because it is simply naïve to assume that everything depicted in the history or ethnography has a parallel in the past and vice versa. Rather, the confluence of archaeology, history and ethnography becomes a pedestal for dialogue between different sources, subjects and ideas that is important for broadening our knowledge of global categories of metallurgical practice.
Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521633893
This book provides an archaeological synthesis of Southern Africa.
Author : Kevin Shillington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122744209
Author : P. L. Shinnie
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCSC:32106000762580
"The advance in knowledge of the archaeology of the Iron Age in Africa during the last twenty years is one of the most significant developments of archaeology anywhere. Going hand in hand with new historical research there is now a large and growing body of information on the subject. This book endeavours to give in concise but accurate form a summary of what is known. The authors, most of whom are still actively at work in the field, are all authorities in their own areas and several of them have been pioneers in developing archaeology in Africa. It is hoped that the book may prove of use to nonspecialists who would like to know of recent developments as well as to the growing number of students of the subject"--
Author : Dennis Spande
Publisher : African Studies Association
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037138547
Author : H. C. Woodhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : UCAL:B4558743