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The Archaeology of Southern Africa
Abstract
1. Introduction 2. Frameworks 3. Origins 4. Modern humans, modern behaviour? 5. Living through the late Pleistocene 6. From the Pleistocene into the Holocene: social and ecological models of cultural change 7. Hunting, gathering and intensifying: Holocene foragers in Southern Africa 8. History from the rocks, ethnography from the desert 9. Taking stock: the introduction and impact of pastoralism 10. Early farming communities 11. The Zimbabwe tradition 12. Later farming communities of southernmost Africa 13. The archaeology of colonialism 14. Southern African archaeology today.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bisson, M. S., & Mitchell, P.
- Venue
- The International Journal of African Historical Studies
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 2003
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 503
- ISSN
- 0361-7882 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W629872341
- Cited by
- 507
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 97.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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