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Five hundred years rediscovered : southern African precedents and prospects : 500 Year Initiative 2007 conference proceedings / edited by Natalie Swanepoel, Amanda Esterhuysen and Philip Bonner

Corporate Author
500 Year Initiative (Group). Conference
Published
Johannesburg : Wits University Press, [2008]
Copyright Date
©2008
Physical Description
viii, 284 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Additional Creators
Swanepoel, Natalie, Esterhuysen, A., and Bonner, P. L.

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Contents
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 Central Africa : a comparison of the Makololo and the Ngoni in Zambia, 1830s-1898 / Ackson M. Kanduza.
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ISBN
9781868144747
1868144747
Note
ED: UNIV. OF SOUTH AFRICA, PRETORIA. PAPERS BASED ON 2007 CONFERENCE. DIST. BY TRANSACTION PUB.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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