The Middle Iron Age (MIA) of southern Africa is a period characterized by increased social complexity centered on the polity of Mapungubwe. This article considers the role that fiber spinning played in the regional political economy of the period. At Mutamba and other sites in the southern hinterland of Mapungubwe, spinning was a significant economic activity. Evidence from 187 spindle whorls from the site suggests that intensive spinning of cotton was practiced by households. This enabled hinterland communities to actively participate in regional trade networks and acquire trade goods, including objects that were often restricted in the Mapungubwe heartland. This casts hinterland communities as active participants, rather than passive byst...
In Africa and elsewhere, producers form a critical dimension to archaeological reconstructions of th...
This thesis examines the fundamental role of natural resources in African state-building and develop...
The long-distance trade routes would have played a significant role in the socio-political history o...
The Middle Iron Age (MIA) of southern Africa is a period characterized by increased social complexit...
The focus of this research is on the archaeological site known as Mutamba, situated on the northern ...
The rise of complex societies in the Limpopo Valley has received much attention over the years. The ...
Archaeological studies of craft production locales provide an important lens through which to evalua...
THEOBJECTOF this article is to examine the evidence for early trading relations between Southern Afr...
Mutamba is a 13th-century Iron Age settlement located in the Soutpansberg of South Africa and is co...
Artifacts and products related to spinning became relatively abundant in the southern Levant during ...
Indigenous iron working has received considerable attention from Africanist archaeologists but its c...
Novel trajectories of food production, urbanism, and inter-regional trade fueled the emergence of nu...
For many hundreds of years, iron has played a significant role within the societies along the Middle...
Shell disc beads (SDB) are some of the earliest ornaments made by humans, and are frequently found i...
In southern Africa, as elsewhere, the tendency of Iron Age (CE 200-1900) researchers has been to foc...
In Africa and elsewhere, producers form a critical dimension to archaeological reconstructions of th...
This thesis examines the fundamental role of natural resources in African state-building and develop...
The long-distance trade routes would have played a significant role in the socio-political history o...
The Middle Iron Age (MIA) of southern Africa is a period characterized by increased social complexit...
The focus of this research is on the archaeological site known as Mutamba, situated on the northern ...
The rise of complex societies in the Limpopo Valley has received much attention over the years. The ...
Archaeological studies of craft production locales provide an important lens through which to evalua...
THEOBJECTOF this article is to examine the evidence for early trading relations between Southern Afr...
Mutamba is a 13th-century Iron Age settlement located in the Soutpansberg of South Africa and is co...
Artifacts and products related to spinning became relatively abundant in the southern Levant during ...
Indigenous iron working has received considerable attention from Africanist archaeologists but its c...
Novel trajectories of food production, urbanism, and inter-regional trade fueled the emergence of nu...
For many hundreds of years, iron has played a significant role within the societies along the Middle...
Shell disc beads (SDB) are some of the earliest ornaments made by humans, and are frequently found i...
In southern Africa, as elsewhere, the tendency of Iron Age (CE 200-1900) researchers has been to foc...
In Africa and elsewhere, producers form a critical dimension to archaeological reconstructions of th...
This thesis examines the fundamental role of natural resources in African state-building and develop...
The long-distance trade routes would have played a significant role in the socio-political history o...