Landscape transformations and the archaeology of impact : social disruption and state formation in southern Africa /

In 1984, Perry went to Swaziland, in southern Africa, to do archaeological fieldwork on the emergence of the Swazi state. He concentrated on the unsanctioned realms of the recent history, the Mfecane/Difaqane period, and soon discovered that no archaeology had been undertaken and that the official r...

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Main Author: Perry, Warren R.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum, [1999]
Series:Contributions to global historical archaeology.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:In 1984, Perry went to Swaziland, in southern Africa, to do archaeological fieldwork on the emergence of the Swazi state. He concentrated on the unsanctioned realms of the recent history, the Mfecane/Difaqane period, and soon discovered that no archaeology had been undertaken and that the official r.
Item Description:Revised of the author's thesis Archaeology of the Mfecane/Difaqane (Ph. D.--University of New York, 1996).
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 180 pages) : maps.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-172) and index.
ISBN:9780306459559
0306459558
0306471566
9780306471568