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"In this new edition, Peter Mitchell provides a comprehensive synthesis of Southern Africa's archaeology over more than three million years. It includes new work that addresses pre-colonial states and the transformations wrought by European colonialism, emphasising Indigenous agency and feeding into efforts to decolonise the discipline"--
List of contents
List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Frameworks; 3. Contexts; 4. Origins; 5. A cognitive revolution; 6. Hunter-gatherers of the late Pleistocene; 7. Archaeologies of the Pleistocene/Holocene transition; 8. Hunting, gathering, intensifying: forager histories in the Holocene before 2000 BP; 9. Taking stock: herders and hunter-gatherers; 10. Farmers and foragers: the first millennium; 11. Forming states: the Zimbabwe culture and its neighbours; 12. Recent farmers and hunter-gatherers in southernmost Africa; 13. Colonisation, conquest, resistance; 14. Perspectives and prospects; Glossary; References; Index.
About the author
Peter Mitchell is Professor of African Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Tutor and Fellow of Archaeology of St Hugh's College, Oxford, and Research Associate at the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witswatersrand. A past president of the Society of African Archaeologists, he is co-editor of Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa.
Summary
In this new edition, Peter Mitchell provides a comprehensive synthesis of Southern Africa's archaeology over more than 3 million years. It includes new work that addresses pre-colonial states and the transformations wrought by European colonialism, emphasising Indigenous agency and feeding into efforts to decolonise the discipline.
