HistoryThe Mapungubwe World Heritage cultural landscape, situated on the farm Greefswald at the junction of the Limpopo and Shashi rivers on the border of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana, falls under the management of South African National Parks. This article presents a close examination of ...
Huffman, T.N. "MAPELA, MAPUNGUBWE AND THE ORIGINS OF STATES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA." The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 70, No. 201 (JUNE 2015), pp. 15-27. Ki-Zerbo, J. (ed). UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. IV, Abridged Edition. University of California Press, 199...
This paper argued that such unfettered recognition of ancestral history unrelated to cemetery (Mapungubwe) graves is inappropriate and unheard of in the African culture and that it undermines the government's ability to resolve local societal problems. The paper u...
The landscape is also important to the history of the San, whose rock paintings can be found throughout. South African National Parks (SANParks) is responsible for its management, and recognises among its core functions the conservation of cultural heritage through community involvement, documentation...
History of AfricaForagersfarmersinteractionLater Stone AgelandscapeMapungubwesettlement patternsethnographyOur understanding of the Later Stone Age (LSA) on the Greater Mapungubwe Landscape has until now been fairly limited. However, it is a landscape upon which foragers witnessed and partook in ...
It therefore should be seen within the current stream of popularizing archaeology, something that has been lacking for many years, but now to seems to be the trend, especially with the younger generation of archaeologists.Van Vollenhoven, Anton C.South African Journal of Cultural History...
Huffman, T.N. "MAPELA, MAPUNGUBWE AND THE ORIGINS OF STATES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA." The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 70, No. 201 (JUNE 2015), pp. 15-27. Ki-Zerbo, J. (ed). UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. IV, Abridged Edition. University of California Press, 199...