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

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 o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Perry, Warren R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2002, 2002
Edition:1st ed. 2002
Series:Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Southern Africa and the Archaeology of Impact
  • The Mfecane/Difaqane Problem from the Documentary Record
  • Archaeological Correlates of the Settler Model
  • Previous Archaeological Research
  • Using Archaeology to Study the Processes of the Mfecane/Difaqane
  • Toward an Archaeology of Impact