Five hundred years rediscovered
Subtitle: southern African precedents and prospects : 500 Year Initiative 2007 conference proceedings
By: edited by Natalie Swanepoel, Amanda Esterhuysen and Philip Bonner.
Contributors: Swanepoel, Natalie.; Esterhuysen, A.; Bonner, P. L.
Publisher: Wits University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781868144747
Subjects: Africa, Southern -- History -- Congresses; Africa, Southern -- Antiquities -- Congresses; South Africa -- History -- Congresses; South Africa -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Other titles: 500 years rediscovered
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical archaeologies of southern Africa : precedents and prospects / Joanna Behrens and Natalie Swanepoel; title: South Africa in Africa more than five hundred years ago : some questions / Neil Parsons; title: Towards an outline of the oral geography, historical identity and political economy of the late precolonial Tswana in the Rustenburg region / Simon Hall ... [et al.]; title: Metals beyond frontiers : exploring the production, distribution and use of metals in the Free State grasslands, South Africa / Shadreck Chirikure, Simon Hall and Tim Maggs; title: DeTuin, a 19th-century mission station in the Northern Cape / Alan G. Morris; title: Reinterpreting the origins of Dzata : archaeology and legends / Edwin Hanisch; title: Revisiting Bokoni : populating the stone ruins of the Mpumulanga Escarpment / P. Delius and M.H. Schoeman; title: The Mpumalanga Escarpment settlements : some answers, many questions / Tim Maggs; title: Post-European contact glass beads from the southern African interior : a tentative look at trade, consumption and identities / Marilee Wood.; title: Ceramic alliances : pottery and the history of the Kekana Ndebele in the old Transvaal / A.B. Esterhuysen; title: Rediscovering the Ndwandwe kingdom / John Wright; title: Swazi oral tradition and Northern Nguni historical archaeology / Philip Bonner; title: Mfecane mutation in Cental Africa : a comparison of the Makololo and the Ngoni in Zambia, 1830s-1898 / Ackson M. Kanduza.