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

• Main Author: Perry, Warren R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Culture > Study and teaching.; History.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; History, general.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

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 o...