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Autor:
Abigail Joy Moffett
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Reference Module in Social Sciences ISBN: 9780443157851
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https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-90799-6.00076-8
https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-90799-6.00076-8
Autor:
Simon Hall, Abigail Joy Moffett
Publikováno v:
Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 30:313-326
The global distribution of cowrie shells (Monetaria annulusandMonetaria moneta) attests to their exchange over long distances and their value in diverse cultural contexts. In addition to their commodification, cowries functioned as adornment, ritual,
Autor:
Abigail Joy Moffett
Metal production in southern Africa dates to the early first millennium ce when the technology of working iron and copper was brought into the region by incoming “Iron Age” farming communities. The mining and production of copper, iron, and later
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https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.602
https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.602
Autor:
Michelle House, Foreman Bandama, Tawanda Mukwende, Shadreck Chirikure, Abigail Joy Moffett, Robert T. Nyamushosho
Publikováno v:
Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 28:45-66
In southern Africa, there has been a long-standing but unsubstantiated assumption that the site of Khami evolved out of Great Zimbabwe's demise around ad 1450. The study of local ceramics from the two sites indicate that the respective ceramic tradit
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Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 12:646-657
This paper reports on the typological and archaeometallurgical studies of an assemblage of long forgotten but often misidentified metallurgical crucibles and moulds from Great Zimbabwe's century old archive. It exposes that specialised crucibles, non
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Journal of World Prehistory. 29:337-382
Prestige goods, in various combinations and permutations, feature prominently in anthropological and archaeological templates of the emergence of social inequality and early state formation in premodern societies. In Africa, discussion of the contrib
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Archaeometry. 58:164-181
The legacy of vandalism and almost a century of continuous focus on drystone wall masonry is that little is known about metal craft production and consumption activities at Great Zimbabwe. Within these limitations, this paper attempts to explore the
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Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. 51:234-256
This study investigates the technology and sociology of indigenous iron production in Venda, northern South Africa, within a framework of ethnographies, historical documents and archaeometallurgical analyses. Investigations revealed that indigenous i
Autor:
Shadreck Chirikure, Mark Pollard, Abigail Joy Moffett, Michelle House, Foreman Bandama, Tawanda Mukwende
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African Archaeological Review. 33:75-95
While pioneers of archaeology in any given region have established the foundations of the discipline, their views have not remained unchanged in places such as Europe, North America and Australasia. In these regions, successive generations of researc
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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 59:101180
Archaeological studies of craft production locales provide an important lens through which to evaluate the mechanisms of the political economy at different, intersecting scales. Such multi-scaler perspectives are pertinent to the study of southern Af