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

Landscape Transformations and the Archaeology of Impact: Social Disruption and State Formation in Southern Africa
ISBN-10
0306471566
ISBN-13
9780306471568
Category
Social Science
Pages
180
Language
English
Published
2006-04-11
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Author
Warren R. Perry

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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