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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Mapungubwe"”.
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A study of land use conflicts in Mapungubwe area
… over the use of land and its resources in the Mapungubwe area. The main underlying assumption of the study is that various land use activities that are not compatible with each other lead to land use conflict. The aim of the study is to assess land use conflict in the Mapungubwe area. In …
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Producing the Precolonial: Professional and Popular Lives of Mapungubwe, 1937-2017
… of the changing meanings of the thing that is 'Mapungubwe' (most often considered as a thirteenth-century southern African state) within and outside the academy from 1937 and 2017, deliberately excluding meanings that might have existed prior to 1937, analysing the socio-political work …
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Land use change and bordering in the Greater Mapungubwe transfrontier conservation area
… as a lens for understanding the construction of Mapungubwe as a transfrontier conservation area and the effects of that process on biodiversity, the local economy and local communities. The main assumption underlying the study is that transfrontier conservation areas are founded on principles of …
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The archaeobotany of Mutamba, a thirteenth century Mapungubwe settlement in northern South Africa
… it is recommended that additional sites in Mapungubwe’s outlying areas be examined for archaeobotanical material and that other forms of archaeobotanical study (i.e. microbotanical analysis) be incorporated as well.
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Carefully hidden away: excavating the archive of the Mapungubwe dead and their possessions
… first stumbled upon golden artefacts in 1933, Mapungubwe - an Iron Age civilisation that existed in the confluence of the Shashe and Limpopo rivers between 900 and 1300 AD - has been the subject of contestation. Initially knowledge production about Mapungubwe was informed by the need to make a …
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All that glitters is not gold: authenticity and historical accuracy in representations of Mapungubwe
The (Re)Discovery of Mapungubwe in 1933 sparked an ongoing 89-year journey of interpretation, re-interpretation, hidden agendas, scientific racism and an evolution of worldviews. In being as deeply meaningful and entrenched in the South African psyche as it is, Mapungubwe features in a variety of …
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Stakeholders, conservation and socio-economic development: the case of Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape World Heritage Site, South Africa
… and socio-economic development processes, using Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape World Heritage Site (South Africa) as the case study. The study solicited the views and opinions of 243 participants, using a dynamic and mixed methodology which combined desktop studies, questionnaire surveys, …
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Game ranching and land reform : Claims for the land exclaim tension : a case study of the Mapungubwe region
… A contextual analysis of ranching in the Mapungubwe region was thus sought. Fieldwork involving interviews with available key informants was conducted in the region. It was found, firstly, that a conceptual tension underpins game ranching; secondly, not all ranching can be deemed …
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The role of hydrological changes in the demise of Iron Age state societies in southern Africa: an integrative study of Mapungubwe, South Africa
In southern Africa, Mapungubwe (AD 1200–1300) is regarded as the earliest precolonial state system that emerged by exploiting floodplain ecologies for extensive agriculture and trade for immense surplus wealth, significant pillars that helped transforming kinships into bureaucratic, class-based …
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The archaeology of Mapela Hill, South-Western Zimbabwe
… However, most research focus has been on K2 and Mapungubwe in the Middle Limpopo Valley, the presumed first state capitals of the region. Mapela Hill is a site located outside the Middle Limpopo in south western Zimbabwe. Preliminary excavations at the summit of the hill by Peter Garlake in 1968 …
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States, agency, and power on the ‘peripheries': exploring the archaeology of the later Iron Age societies in precolonial Mberengwa, CE 1300-1600s
… most research foci were accorded to Mapungubwe, Great Zimbabwe, Khami, Danamombe and many other places considered as centres (mizinda) of expansive territorial states. However, landscapes away from, and in-between these states and their centres are traditionally viewed as …
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Exploring Networks of Interaction at the Iron Age Site of Mtanye, South Western Zimbabwe
… stratified Transitional K2 (1200-1250 A.D.) and Mapungubwe (1250-1300) deposit. This site has further been placed into the wider conventional narrative as being evidence for the expansion of the Mapungubwe state. In order to recreate the networks of interaction that were present at Mtanye, …
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Technological, social and economic aspects of gold production and use by the iron age people of Southern Africa
… that allow these questions to be addressed; Mapungubwe (1 ath - 13th century AD), Great Zimbabwe (12th - 15th century AD) and Thulamela (l4th - 17th century AD). Previous descriptions of the fabrication technology of southern African gold exist, but this is the first, systematic study of all …
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Translating and interpreting South Africa’s cultures: art, song and dance in Mda’s selected novels
… Heart of Redness (2000), and The Sculptors of Mapungubwe (2013). The study employs post-colonial theories and decolonial perspectives to discern how Mda deploys these artistic expressions to transcend their aesthetic value, acting as powerful symbols of resistance, unity, and healing. These …
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Visualising Southern African late iron age settlements in the digital age
… the visualisation of four settlements, namely: Mapungubwe, Khami, Great Zimbabwe, and Bokoni. It is proposed that as with the authority of Eurocentric 'formative interpretations' of LIAS research currently under review, visualisations accompanying LIAS also need to be critically relooked at …
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An archaeological study of the Zimbabwe culture capital of Khami, south-western Zimbabwe
… with no developmental trajectory recorded at Mapungubwe or Great Zimbabwe, where earlier ceramic units influenced later ones. Consequently, this study cautiously suggests that Khami represents a continuity with the Woolandale chiefdoms that settled in the south-western parts of the country and …
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Modes of land control in transfrontier conservation areas : a case of green grabbing
… Conservation Area and South Africa's Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area - in order to explore the politics of land in TFCAs through the green grabbing lens. Global environmental organizations are increasingly calling for more terrestrial and marine resources to be protected …
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Foragers and trade at Little Muck Shelter, middle Limpopo Valley
… led to the emergence of a state-level society at Mapungubwe Hill, c. AD 1220. Foragers, who were present during this period, are generally not considered participants of, or contributors to, the socio-political and economic changes that occurred on the southern African landscape. However, research …
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Glass beads as indicators of contact and trade in Southern Africa ca. AD 900 - AD 1250
… Great Zimbabwe (AD 1250-1450) from precursors at Mapungubwe and related sites. This period corresponds in time with an important episode in Islamic history, when Muslims conquered Egypt and the Fatimids moved their capital eastwards, in AD 969, from Tunisia to al-Qahira (Cairo) next to the …