Peter Mitchell

The Archaeology of Southern Africa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"In this new edition, Peter Mitchell provides a comprehensive synthesis of Southern Africa's archaeology over more than three million years. It includes new work that addresses pre-colonial states and the transformations wrought by European colonialism, emphasising Indigenous agency and feeding into efforts to decolonise the discipline"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 178mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1361g
• ISBN-13: 9781009324731
• ISBN-10: 100932473X
• Artikelnr.: 70055157

Autorenporträt

Peter Mitchell is Professor of African Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Tutor and Fellow of Archaeology of St Hugh's College, Oxford, and Research Associate at the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witswatersrand. A past president of the Society of African Archaeologists, he is co-editor of Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Frameworks
3. Contexts
4. Origins
5. A cognitive revolution
6. Hunter-gatherers of the late Pleistocene
7. Archaeologies of the Pleistocene/Holocene transition
8. Hunting, gathering, intensifying: forager histories in the Holocene before 2000 BP
9. Taking stock: herders and hunter-gatherers
10. Farmers and foragers: the first millennium
11. Forming states: the Zimbabwe culture and its neighbours
12. Recent farmers and hunter-gatherers in southernmost Africa
13. Colonisation, conquest, resistance
14. Perspectives and prospects
Glossary
References
Index.