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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Delius, Peter (Peter Nicholas St. Martin) (Author), Schoeman, Alex (Author), Maggs, Tim (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Human settlements > South Africa > Mpumalanga.
Stone walls > South Africa > Mpumalanga.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Human settlements
Stone walls
South Africa > Mpumalanga
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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