Mapungubwe Reconsidered: A Living Legacy: Exploring Beyond the Rise and Decline of the Mapungubwe State
Shadreck Chirikure · Peter Delius · Amanda Esterhuysen · Simon Hall · Sekibakiba Lekgoathi · Maanda Maulaudzi · Vele Neluvhalani · Otsile Ntsoane · David Pearce · Karim Sadr · Jeanette Smith · Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA)
Oct 2015 · Real African Publishers Pty Ltd.
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The Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape is one of the profound treasures of southern Africa's social and archaeological history, appropriately declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) in 2003. Contained within this landscape is indispensable information on precolonial state formation, social hierarchies, architecture of stone-walled towns, mineral processing and intercontinental trade. And yet, the Mapungubwe state rose, towered over its environs, and then declined – long before European colonial incursions. Mapungubwe Reconsidered: A Living Legacy contributes to the body of knowledge about Mapungubwe, straddling such issues as the relationships between humans and the environment, management of mineral endowments and the form and impact of southern Africa's global intercourse in this historical period.
About the author
Rachel Browne has a Master's in Developmental Management from the School of Public and Developmental Management at the University of the Witwatersrand. Dr Shadreck Chirikure obtained his BA and Honours degrees from the University of Zimbabwe. Prof Peter Delius has several books to his name, including: The Land Belongs to Us, The Conversion, Putting a Plough to the Ground 1850-1930 and Mpumalanga: An Illustrated History. Amanda Esterhuysen is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand. Dr Simon Hall is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at UCT. Michelle Hay is Associate Lecturer in History at the University of the Witwatersrand. Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi is an associate professor of history at the University of the Witwatersrand.
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