The Archaeology Of Southern Africa

Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009324762

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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 Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009324731

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The Archaeology of Southern Africa by Peter Mitchell Pdf

This revised and updated edition provides a comprehensive synthesis of Southern Africa's archaeology over more than 3 million years.

Author : R. R. Inskeep
Publisher : David Philip Publishers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 0949968692

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The Peopling of Southern Africa by R. R. Inskeep Pdf

Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-03
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : 0521533848

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The Archaeology of Southern Africa by Peter Mitchell Pdf

Some of the earliest human populations lived in Southern Africa, and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human origins and on the emergence of modern humans.

Author : H. C. Woodhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : UCAL:B4558743

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Archaeology in Southern Africa by H. C. Woodhouse Pdf

Author : Natalie Swanepoel,Amanda Esterhuysen,Phil Bonner
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781776142286

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Five Hundred Years Rediscovered by Natalie Swanepoel,Amanda Esterhuysen,Phil Bonner Pdf

In the age of the African Renaissance, southern Africa has needed to reinterpret the past in fresh and more appropriate ways. The last 500 years represent a strikingly unexplored and misrepresented period which remains disfigured by colonial/apartheid assumptions, most notably in the way that African societies are depicted as fixed, passive, isolated, un-enterprising and unenlightened. This period is one the most formative in relation to southern Africa’s past while remaining, in many ways, the least known. Key cultural contours of the sub-continent took shape, while in a jagged and uneven fashion some of the features of modern identities emerged. Enormous internal economic innovation and political experimentation was taking place at the same time as expanding European mercantile forces started to press upon southern African shores and its hinterlands. This suggests that interaction, flux and mixing were a strong feature of the period, rather than the homogeneity and fixity proposed in standard historical and archaeological writings. Five Hundred Years Rediscovered represents the first step, taken by a group of archaeologists and historians, to collectively reframe, revitalise and re-examine the last 500 years. By integrating research and developing trans-frontier research networks, the group hopes to challenge thinking about the region’s expanding internal and colonial frontiers, and to broaden current perceptions about southern Africa’s colonial past.

Author : Martin Hall
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780852557358

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Archaeology Africa by Martin Hall Pdf

Martin Hall explains how archaeologists find sites, design an excavation, date finds, and write history. The reader is given an outline of the history of the African continent, from the early hominids to the present. South Africa: David Philip/New Africa Books

Author : David Whitley,Johannes Loubser,Gavin Whitelaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351654395

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Cognitive Archaeology by David Whitley,Johannes Loubser,Gavin Whitelaw Pdf

Cognitive Archaeology: Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond aims to interpret the social and cultural lives of the past, in part by using ethnography to build informed models of past cultural and social systems and partly by using natural models to understand symbolism and belief. How does an archaeologist interpret the past? Which theories are relevant, what kinds of data must be acquired, and how can interpretations be derived? One interpretive approach, developed in southern Africa in the 1980s, has been particularly successful even if still not widely known globally. With an expressed commitment to scientific method, it has resulted in deeper, well-tested understandings of belief, ritual, settlement patterns and social systems. This volume brings together a series of papers that demonstrate and illustrate this approach to archaeological interpretation, including contributions from North America, Western Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, in the process highlighting innovative methodological and substantive research that improves our understanding of the human past. Professional archaeological researchers would be the primary audience of this book. Because of its theoretical and methodological emphasis, it will also be relevant to method and theory courses and postgraduate students.

Author : Warren R. Perry
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780306471568

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Landscape Transformations and the Archaeology of Impact by Warren R. Perry Pdf

An attempt to use archaeological materials to investigate the colonization of southeastern Africa during the period 1500 to 1900. Perry demonstrates the usefulness of archaeology in bypassing the biases of the ethnohistorical and documentary record and generating a more comprehensive understanding of history. Special attention is paid to the period of state formation in Swaziland and a critique of the `Settler Model', which the author finds to be invalid.

Author : H. J. Deacon,Janette Deacon
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0864864175

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Human Beginnings in South Africa by H. J. Deacon,Janette Deacon Pdf

The Stone Age is now beginning to be recognised as vital in establishing who we are and where we have come from. This period has long been neglected.

Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521633893

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The Archaeology of Southern Africa by Peter Mitchell Pdf

This book provides an archaeological synthesis of Southern Africa.

Author : Cynthia Kros,Helen Ludlow,Geoffrey Blundell,Jan Boeyens,Amanda Esterhuysen,Rachel King,Lize Kriel,Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi,Grant McNulty,Hlonipha Mokoena,Fred Morton,Muchaparara Musemwa,Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu,Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu,Himal Ramji,Justine Wintjes
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781776147274

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Archives of Times Past by Cynthia Kros,Helen Ludlow,Geoffrey Blundell,Jan Boeyens,Amanda Esterhuysen,Rachel King,Lize Kriel,Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi,Grant McNulty,Hlonipha Mokoena,Fred Morton,Muchaparara Musemwa,Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu,Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu,Himal Ramji,Justine Wintjes Pdf

Archives of Times Past' explores particular sources of evidence on southern Africa's time before the colonial era. It gathers recent ideas about archives and archiving from scholars in southern Africa and elsewhere, focusing on the question: 'How do we know, or think we know, what happened in the times before European colonialism?'0The essays by well-known historians, archaeologists and researchers engage these questions from a range of perspectives and in illuminating ways. Written from personal experience, they capture how these experts encountered their archives of knowledge beyond the textbook.0The essays are written at a time when public discussion about the history of southern Africa before the colonial era is taking place more openly than at any other time in the last hundred years They will appeal to students, academics, educationists, teachers, archivists, and heritage, museum practitioners and the general public.

Author : James Denbow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107040700

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The Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa by James Denbow Pdf

This book provides the first detailed description of the prehistory of the Loango coast of west-central Africa over the course of more than 3000 years.

Author : Peter Mitchell,Paul Lane
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191626142

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The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology by Peter Mitchell,Paul Lane Pdf

Africa has the longest and arguably the most diverse archaeological record of any of the continents. It is where the human lineage first evolved and from where Homo sapiens spread across the rest of the world. Later, it witnessed novel experiments in food-production and unique trajectories to urbanism and the organisation of large communities that were not always structured along strictly hierarchical lines. Millennia of engagement with societies in other parts of the world confirm Africa's active participation in the construction of the modern world, while the richness of its history, ethnography, and linguistics provide unusually powerful opportunities for constructing interdisciplinary narratives of Africa's past. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date 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. As well as covering almost all periods and regions of the continent, it includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates, and situates the subject's contemporary practice within the discipline's history and the infrastructural challenges now facing its practitioners. Bringing together essays on all these themes from over seventy contributors, many of them living and working in Africa, it offers a highly accessible, contemporary account of the subject for use by scholars and students of not only archaeology, but also history, anthropology, and other disciplines.

Author : Beatrice Sandelowsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015077632605

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Archaeologically Yours, Beatrice Sandelowsky by Beatrice Sandelowsky Pdf