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  1. Forgotten World
    The Stone-Walled Settlements of the Mpumalanga Escarpment
    Autor*in: Delius, Peter
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Endless stone circles linked by long passages connect over 10 000 square kilometres of the Drakensberg escarpment in a complex web of stone-walled homesteads, terraced fields and linking roads. The Bokoni settlements (1500 to 1820) housed a... mehr

    Universität Mainz, Zentralbibliothek
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    Endless stone circles linked by long passages connect over 10 000 square kilometres of the Drakensberg escarpment in a complex web of stone-walled homesteads, terraced fields and linking roads. The Bokoni settlements (1500 to 1820) housed a substantial population, had infrastructural development, and displayed extraordinary levels of productivity.

     

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    Beteiligt: Maggs, Tim; Schoeman, Alex
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781868148110
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (177 pages)
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  2. Forgotten World
    The Stone-Walled Settlements of the Mpumalanga Escarpment
    Autor*in: Delius, Peter
    Erschienen: 2014; ©2014
    Verlag:  Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg

    Endless stone circles linked by long passages connect over 10 000 square kilometres of the Drakensberg escarpment in a complex web of stone-walled homesteads, terraced fields and linking roads. The Bokoni settlements (1500 to 1820) housed a... mehr

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    Endless stone circles linked by long passages connect over 10 000 square kilometres of the Drakensberg escarpment in a complex web of stone-walled homesteads, terraced fields and linking roads. The Bokoni settlements (1500 to 1820) housed a substantial population, had infrastructural development, and displayed extraordinary levels of productivity. Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Conflicting readings of the rocks -- The 'exotic' narrative -- The indigenous interpretation -- Twenty-first century perspectives -- Chapter One: New Ideas About Old Data: How We Are Learning About Bokoni -- Buildings in stone -- Engravings -- Material culture -- Ceramics -- Iron and steel -- Historical sources -- Chapter Two: 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 Three: Making Of A Walled World: Context And Emergence Of Bokoni -- Settling the grasslands -- Stone walls in the landscape -- The homesteads -- Chapter Four: 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 Five: Neighbours And Raiders -- Fear, famine and capture in Bokoni -- Capture and 'cannibalism' -- Marangrang -- 1830s onwards -- Chapter Six: 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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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Beteiligt: Maggs, Tim (MitwirkendeR); Schoeman, Alex (MitwirkendeR)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781868148110
    Schlagworte: Stone walls-Design and construction; Electronic books
    Umfang: 1 online resource (177 pages)
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