Archaeology In Southern Africa
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The Archaeology Of Southern Africa
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Author : Peter Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-11-14
The Archaeology Of Southern Africa written by Peter Mitchell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-14 with History categories.
This book provides an archaeological synthesis of Southern Africa.
Archaeology In Southern Africa
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Author : H. C. Woodhouse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Archaeology In Southern Africa written by H. C. Woodhouse and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Africa, Southern categories.
The Peopling Of Southern Africa
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Author : R. R. Inskeep
language : en
Publisher: David Philip Publishers
Release Date : 1978
The Peopling Of Southern Africa written by R. R. Inskeep and has been published by David Philip Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with History categories.
Five Hundred Years Rediscovered
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Author : Natalie Swanepoel
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2008-08-01
Five Hundred Years Rediscovered written by Natalie Swanepoel and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-01 with History categories.
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.
Archaeology Africa
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Author : Martin Hall
language : en
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
Release Date : 1996
Archaeology Africa written by Martin Hall and has been published by James Currey Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
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
Cognitive Archaeology
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Author : David Whitley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-28
Cognitive Archaeology written by David Whitley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-28 with Social Science categories.
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.
Tradition Archaeological Heritage Protection And Communities In The Limpopo Province Of South Africa
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Author : Innocent Pikirayi
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2011
Tradition Archaeological Heritage Protection And Communities In The Limpopo Province Of South Africa written by Innocent Pikirayi and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
This book captures community voices in matters relating to their relationship with specific archaeological heritage sites and landscapes in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Focusing on the stonewalled archaeological heritage associated with Venda speakers and the reburial in 2008 of human remains excavated by the University of Pretoria from the cultural landscape of Mapungubwe, the book attempts to establish why archaeology and cultural heritage conservation struggle for relevance in South Africa today. In articulating the relevance of archaeology in South Africa in particular and southern Africa in general and in the context of public or community-based archaeology, the book explores how communities and the public interact, use and negotiate with their pasts. The research critiques the notion of archaeological heritage conservation and attempts to understand cultural heritage conservation from the perspectives of descendant communities. The book further exposes the conflict between cultural heritage protection efforts and modern development and questions the role of such efforts, given the challenges of unemployment, social inequality and poverty in democratic South Africa. The book is also about community engagement in archaeology, specifically in matters relating to access to cultural heritage resources. This study suggests that there is scope for community archaeology to take centre stage and drive future directions in archaeology if archaeologists change their approach in dealing with communities. Researchers are challenged in this study to rethink the notion of heritage, to debate the objectives behind cultural heritage conservation and to critically reexamine the relevance of archaeology today. This study suggests that the conflicting positions between heritage managers, archaeologists and descendant communities may be resolved through sharing of 'tradition' with the 'present'.
Archives Of Times Past
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Author : Cynthia Kros
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2022-02
Archives Of Times Past written by Cynthia Kros and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02 with Art categories.
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.
Landscape Transformations And The Archaeology Of Impact
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Author : Warren R. Perry
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2005-11-25
Landscape Transformations And The Archaeology Of Impact written by Warren R. Perry and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-25 with Social Science categories.
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.
Human Beginnings In South Africa
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Author : H. J. Deacon
language : en
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Release Date : 1999
Human Beginnings In South Africa written by H. J. Deacon and has been published by Rowman Altamira this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Specialists in Stone Age archaeology in South Africa present the results of nearly 150 years of research that follows the development of humans from their early beginnings to the late 19th century. They offer evidence that the roots of South African society stretch back into the Stone Age. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR