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Author Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, author.

Title Mapungubwe Reconsidered / by Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection
Published South Africa : The Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MIST, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (152 pages) : colour
Summary The Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape is one of the profound treasures of southern Africa's social and archaeological history, appropriately declared a World Heritage (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. What exactly were the social dynamics in this polity? What technologies did it utilise? How did it relate to neighbouring unable to sustain itself? In this combined edition of two MISTRA publications, now jointly titled Mapungubwe Reconsidered: A Living Legacy, MISTRA seeks to contribute 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
Analysis Environmental Issues and Ecolovy
Notes Print version record
Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- South Africa -- Limpopo
Goldwork, Ancient -- South Africa -- Mapungubwe Site
Extinct cities -- South Africa -- Limpopo
Short stories.
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Extinct cities
Goldwork, Ancient
SUBJECT Mapungubwe Site (South Africa) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86000313
Limpopo (South Africa) -- History
Subject South Africa -- Limpopo
South Africa -- Mapungubwe Site
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1928509037
9781928509035