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.
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This text provides an interesting context for reading the history and literature of southern Africa. Geography is useful in our grasp of migration in this part of the continent, which has rich oral traditions heretofore ignored by colonizers. The settlement of southern Africa by Bantu speaking peoples was ignored. Drought and other landscape transformations were the cause of later disruptions, like the mfecane. The text is highly readable and provides the student of southern Africa new information that predates colonization.
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The formation of the Zulu state during the early nineteenth century in southeastern Africa was a moment of great political importance for the inhabitants of southern Africa. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
agropastoral sites, racial commodity slavery, increasing social hierarchy, culling patterns, settlement typology, captive raiding, archaeological expectations, settler version, military polities, cattle pattern, producer sites, central enclosures, enclosure sizes, livestock enclosures, refuge sites, using archaeology, eggshell beads, settlement units, cattle enclosures, body sherds, archaeological correlates, size histograms, elite burials, historical archaeology, medium sites Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Free State, Settler Model, Delagoa Bay, Difagane Zululand, Difagane Sotho-Tswana, South Africa, Difagane Swaziland, Difaqane Swaziland, Difaqane Zululand, Simon Hall New!
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The formation of the Zulu state during the early nineteenth century in southeastern Africa was a moment of great political importance for the inhabitants of southern Africa. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
agropastoral sites, racial commodity slavery, increasing social hierarchy, culling patterns, settlement typology, captive raiding, archaeological expectations, settler version, military polities, cattle pattern, producer sites, central enclosures, enclosure sizes, livestock enclosures, refuge sites, using archaeology, eggshell beads, settlement units, cattle enclosures, body sherds, archaeological correlates, size histograms, elite burials, historical archaeology, medium sites Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Free State, Settler Model, Delagoa Bay, Difagane Zululand, Difagane Sotho-Tswana, South Africa, Difagane Swaziland, Difaqane Swaziland, Difaqane Zululand, Simon Hall New!
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- Historical Archaeology (Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology) by Martin Hall on 4 pages
- African History: From Earliest Times to Independence by Philip Curtin on 4 pages
- Frontiers: South African Archaeology Today (Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology) by G. Avery on 4 pages
- The Zulu aftermath; a Nineteenth Century Revolution in Bantu Africa. by J. D Omer-Cooper on page 11, and Back Matter
- Economy and Society in Pre-industrial South Africa by Anthony Atmore in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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