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Author : South African Archaeological Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
ISBN : 0620235896
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132649455
Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009324762
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : IND:30000122780962
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : IND:30000107288262
Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009324731
This revised and updated edition provides a comprehensive synthesis of Southern Africa's archaeology over more than 3 million years.
Author : South African Archaeological Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : IND:30000126797772
Author : Gavin Lucas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306485398
The book explores three key groups: The Dutch East India Company, the free settlers, and the slaves, through a number of archaeological sites and contexts. With the archaeological evidence, the book examines how these different groups were enmeshed within racial, sexual, and class ideologies in the broader context of capitalism and colonialism, and draws extensively on current social theory, in particular post-colonialism, feminism, and Marxism.
Author : Chapurukha M Kusimba,Santores Tchandeu,Dirk Seidensticker,Adrianne Daggett,Marilee Wood,Laure Dussubieux,Tim Forssman,Kate Smuts,Nick Wiltshire,Akin Ogundiran,Matthew Davies,Caleb Adebayo Folorunso,Timothy Kipkeu Kipruto,Freda M’Mbogori,Henrietta L Moore,Emubosa Orijemie,Alex Schoeman,Festo W Gabriel,Elinaza Mjema,Philip de Barros,Gabriella Lucidi,Narcisse
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781776141616
Confronting national, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries, contributors to African Archaeology Without Frontiers argue against artificial limits and divisions created through the study of ‘ages’ that in reality overlap and cannot and should not be understood in isolation. Papers are drawn from the proceedings of the landmark 14th PanAfrican Archaeological Association Congress, held in Johannesburg in 2014, nearly seven decades after the conference planned for 1951 was re-located to Algiers for ideological reasons following the National Party’s rise to power in South Africa. Contributions by keynote speakers Chapurukha Kusimba and Akin Ogundiran encourage African archaeologists to practise an archaeology that collaborates across many related fields of study to enrich our understanding of the past. The nine papers cover a broad geographical sweep by incorporating material on ongoing projects throughout the continent including South Africa, Botswana, Cameroon, Togo, Tanzania, Kenya and Nigeria. Thematically, the papers included in the volume address issues of identity and interaction, and the need to balance cultural heritage management and sustainable development derived from a continent racked by social inequalities and crippling poverty. Edited by three leading archaeologists, the collection covers many aspects of African archaeology, and a range of periods from the earliest hominins to the historical period. It will appeal to specialists and interested amateurs.
Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521633893
This book provides an archaeological synthesis of Southern Africa.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781868144747
Author : Martin Hall,Ann Markell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Archaeology and history
ISBN : UOM:39015033090476
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Mark Anderson
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780956142702
Author : Peter Mitchell,Paul Lane
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191626142
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 : David Whitley,Johannes Loubser,Gavin Whitelaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351654395
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.
