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Forgotten world : the stone walled settlements of the Mpumalanga Escarpment /

If you drive through Mpumalanga with an eye on the landscape flashing by, you may see, near the sides of the road and further away on the hills above and in the valleys below, fragments of building in stone as well as sections of stone-walling breaking the grass cover. Endless stone circles, set in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Delius, Peter (Peter Nicholas St. Martin) (Autor), Schoeman, Alex (Autor), Maggs, Tim (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • New ideas about old data: how are we learning about Bokoni
  • The arrival of farming, the growth of trade and links to the Indian Ocean world
  • Making of a walled world: context and emergence of Bokoni
  • A new way to manage fields, cattle and people
  • Neighbours and raiders
  • The old in the new: legacies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
  • Conclusion.