
Forgotten World
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Tim Maggs is an archaeologist and was head of the Archaeology Department at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum from its inception in 1972.
Alex Schoeman (Author)
Alex Schoeman is a senior lecturer in Archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Peter Delius (Author)
Peter Delius is Professor in the History Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Conflicting readings of the rocks
- The 'exotic' narrative
- The Indigenous Interpretation
- Twenty-first century perspectives
- Chapter 1: New Ideas About Old Data
- Buildings in stone
- Engravings
- Material Culture
- Ceramics
- Iron and steel
- Historical sources
- Chapter 2: The Arrival of Farming, The Growth of Trade and Links to the Indian Ocean World
- Expanding regional trade networks and the start of Indian Ocean trade
- From wood to stone, and the emergence of new political systems
- Political dynamics
- Chapter 3: Making of a Walled World: Context and Emergence of Bokoni
- Settling the grasslands
- Stone walls in the landscape
- The homesteads
- Chapter 4: A New Way to Manage Fields, Cattle and People
- Terrace agriculture
- Households, homesteads and fields
- Hoes and bored stones - a puzzle resolved
- The giant bored stone
- Islands of agricultural intensification
- Channelling people and cattle
- Animal management
- Chapter 5: Neighbours and Raiders
- Fear, famine and capture in Bokoni
- Capture and 'cannibalism'
- Marangrang
- 1830s onwards
- Chapter 6: The Old in the New: Legacies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Fortresses
- Mission stations
- 'The Land Belongs to Us': Dinkwanyanwe, Mafolofolo and Boomplaats
- Conclusion
- A Select bibliography
- Additional readings for the curious
- Books, articles and theses
- Index
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