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When science alone is not enough: Radiocarbon timescales, history, ethnography and elite settlements in southern Africa

Chirikure, Shadreck, Manyanga, Munyaradzi, Pollard, A. Mark·2012·Journal of Social Archaeology
DOI 10.1177/1469605312457291
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The southern African recent past is replete with examples of elite settlements, some of which were occupied sequentially, and by different rulers. Shona, Venda and Tswana traditions identify the many dry stone walled capitals with former kings who ruled during different reigns. This historical reality is often not factored when considering the issues of political centres and urbanism in the Iron Age. The resolution of radiocarbon dating produces an aggregate time that conflates the chronology of capitals or elite centres when they may not have been contemporary – ‘the suck in and smear’ phenomenon described by Baillie (1991) . This article combines historical and archaeological information to develop an alternative explanation for the existence of hundreds of elite Zimbabwe settlements, some of which were synchronous according to the radiocarbon chronology. The main indication is that rather than suffering from a glut of elites, southern African urban and political centres are associated with individual leaders of competing polities which may not have been part of unified hierarchical and sequential structures. The archaeology of the region stands to benefit from understanding the dynamics of politics, power and leadership in this way.

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  • Multiple states may have coexisted in the wide region, and the limited nature of research to date makes it difficult to identify boundaries of the Great Zimbabwe state and those of coeval entities.

    “However, it is possible that multiple states coexisted in this wide region; the limited nature of research to date makes it difficult to identify boundaries of the Great Zimbabwe state and those of coeval entities”

    From New Perspectives on the Political Economy of Great Zimbabwe (2020) · cites this paper as Chirikure et al. 2012

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Authors
Chirikure, S., Manyanga, M., & Pollard, A. M.
Venue
Journal of Social Archaeology
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2012-10
Volume
12
Issue
3
Pages
356-379
ISSN
  • 1469-6053
  • 1741-2951
DOI
10.1177/1469605312457291
Cited by
29
References
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Language
en
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