Society in transformation : early Iron Age mixed farming communities in the lower Thukela Basin, Zululand

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dc.contributor.advisorHall, Martinen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorMaggs, Timothyen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorVan Schalkwyk, Leonard Outramen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-18T11:25:47Z
dc.date.available2016-11-18T11:25:47Z
dc.date.issued1992en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: pages 138-149.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation is the result of a field-project conducted in the lower Thukela Basin over a twenty-month period in 1984 and 1985. The dissertation sets out to document a regional survey of Early Iron Age sites in a part of the Lower Thukela Basin and report on the excavations and analysis of material from two sites, Mamba and Wosi. On the basis of the archaeological evidence iron smelting practices are discussed and the nature of first millennium mixed-farming, valley bottom settlements reported on. The ceramic finds are described and compared with other known samples from this period and are chronologically placed in the light of recent classificatory suggestions. Some arguments are submitted as to the changing nature of the archaeological record through time. In response to appeals made at the 1985 conference of the Southern African Association of Archaeologists (Hall 1985a; Lewis-Williams 1985) I have, subsequent to the conducting of the field-work, attempted to inform myself more widely of prevailing applications of social theory in the interpretation of the southern African pre-colonial historical record. The latter part of this dissertation is my attempt at such an application and further, an attempt at testing specific theories and models against the field-data collected. Unless otherwise acknowledged, all of the field-work reported on is my own. I remain indebted however to those who have gone before and provided the necessary frameworks on which much of my interpretation is based.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationVan Schalkwyk, L. O. (1992). <i>Society in transformation : early Iron Age mixed farming communities in the lower Thukela Basin, Zululand</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Archaeology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22582en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationVan Schalkwyk, Leonard Outram. <i>"Society in transformation : early Iron Age mixed farming communities in the lower Thukela Basin, Zululand."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Archaeology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22582en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationVan Schalkwyk, L. 1992. Society in transformation : early Iron Age mixed farming communities in the lower Thukela Basin, Zululand. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Van Schalkwyk, Leonard Outram AB - This dissertation is the result of a field-project conducted in the lower Thukela Basin over a twenty-month period in 1984 and 1985. The dissertation sets out to document a regional survey of Early Iron Age sites in a part of the Lower Thukela Basin and report on the excavations and analysis of material from two sites, Mamba and Wosi. On the basis of the archaeological evidence iron smelting practices are discussed and the nature of first millennium mixed-farming, valley bottom settlements reported on. The ceramic finds are described and compared with other known samples from this period and are chronologically placed in the light of recent classificatory suggestions. Some arguments are submitted as to the changing nature of the archaeological record through time. In response to appeals made at the 1985 conference of the Southern African Association of Archaeologists (Hall 1985a; Lewis-Williams 1985) I have, subsequent to the conducting of the field-work, attempted to inform myself more widely of prevailing applications of social theory in the interpretation of the southern African pre-colonial historical record. The latter part of this dissertation is my attempt at such an application and further, an attempt at testing specific theories and models against the field-data collected. Unless otherwise acknowledged, all of the field-work reported on is my own. I remain indebted however to those who have gone before and provided the necessary frameworks on which much of my interpretation is based. DA - 1992 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1992 T1 - Society in transformation : early Iron Age mixed farming communities in the lower Thukela Basin, Zululand TI - Society in transformation : early Iron Age mixed farming communities in the lower Thukela Basin, Zululand UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22582 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/22582
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationVan Schalkwyk LO. Society in transformation : early Iron Age mixed farming communities in the lower Thukela Basin, Zululand. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Archaeology, 1992 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22582en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Archaeologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherArchaeologyen_ZA
dc.titleSociety in transformation : early Iron Age mixed farming communities in the lower Thukela Basin, Zululanden_ZA
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