The archaeology of southern Africa / Peter Mitchell, St. Hugh's College, Oxford University

"In this new edition, Peter Mitchell provides a comprehensive synthesis of Southern Africa's archaeology over more than three million years. It includes new work that addresses pre-colonial states and the transformations wrought by European colonialism, emphasising Indigenous agency and fe...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024
Year of Publication:2024
Edition:Second edition
Language:English
Series:Cambridge world archaeology
Physical Description:pages cm
Notes:
  • "First published 2002."
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
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Table of Contents:
  • Frameworks
  • Histories
  • Origins
  • A cognitive revolution
  • Hunter-gatherers of the late Pleistocene
  • Archaeologies of the Pleistocene/Holocene transition
  • Hunting, gathering, intensifying : forager histories in the Holocene before 2000 BP
  • Taking stock : herders and hunter-gatherers
  • Farmers and foragers : the first millennium
  • Forming states : the Zimbabwe Culture and its neighbours
  • Recent farmers and hunter-gatherers in southernmost Africa
  • Colonisation, conquest, resistance
  • Perspectives and prospects.