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Landscape Transformations and the Archaeology of Impact: Social Disruption and State Formation in Southern Africa

By Warren R. Perry (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer US
Year
2002
ISBN
978-0-306-45955-9, 978-0-306-47156-8
DOI
10.1007/b110430
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2562783 bytes)
Series
Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology
Edition
1
Pages
180\191
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
Archaeology; Anthropology; Regional and Cultural S

Description

An attempt to use archaeological materials to investigate the colonization of southeastern Africa during the period 1500 to 1900. Perry demonstrates the usefulness of archaeology in bypassing the biases of the ethnohistorical and documentary record and generating a more comprehensive understanding of history. Special attention is paid to the period of state formation in Swaziland and a critique of the `Settler Model', which the author finds to be invalid.

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