Forgotten world: the stone-walled settlements of the Mpumalanga Escarpment
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Wits University Press
2014
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-154) and index |
| Beschreibung: | XVI, 157 pages illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781868147748 |
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PREFACE
INTRODUCTION.
Conflicting readings of the rocks
The 'exotic' narrative .
The indigenous interpretation.
Twenty-first century perspectives
CHAPTER ONE
NEW IDEAS ABOUT OLD DATA:
HOW WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT BOKONI
Buildings in stone
Engravings.
Material culture .
Ceramics.
Iron and steel
Historical sources
CHAPTER TWO
THE ARRIVAL OF FARMING, THE GROWTH OF TRADE
AND LINKS TO THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD.
Expanding regional trade networks and the start of Indian Ocean trade
From wood to stone, and the emergence of new political systems .
Political dynamics.
CHAPTER THREE
MAKING OF A WALLED WORLD: CONTEXT AND EMERGENCE OF BOKONI
Settling the grasslands.
Stone walls in the landscape.
The homesteads.
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CHAPTER FOUR
A NEW WAY TO MANAGE FIELDS, CATTLE AND PEOPLE.83
Terrace agriculture.86
Households, homesteads and fields.90
Hoes and bored stones - a puzzle resolved .93
The giant bored stone.96
Islands of agricultural intensification.100
Channelling people and cattle.104
Animal management.108
CHAPTER FIVE
NEIGHBOURS AND RAIDERS.115
Fear, famine and capture in Bokoni.120
Capture and 'cannibalism'.122
Marangrang. 123
1830s onwards. 126
CHAPTER SIX
THE OLD IN THE NEW: LEGACIES IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES. 129
Fortresses.
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Mission stations. 1^2
'The Land Belongs to Us': Dinkwanyanwe, Mafolofolo and Boomplaats. 135
CONCLUSION.
A select bibliography.
Additional readings for the curious
Books, articles and theses.
Index.
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If you drive through Mpumalanga with an eye on the landscape flashing by, you may see,
near the sides of the road and further away on the hills above and in the valleys below,
fragments of building in stone as well as sections of stone-walling breaking the grass
cover. Endless stone circles, set in bewildering mazes and linked by long stone passages,
cover the landscape stretching from Ohrigstad to Carolina, connecting over 10 000 square
kilometres of the escarpment into a complex web of stone-walled homesteads, terraced
fields and linking roads.
Oral traditions recorded in the early twentieth century named the area Bokoni - the
country of the Koni people. Few South Africans or visitors to the country know much about
these settlements, and why today they are deserted and largely ignored. A long tradition
of archaeological work which might provide some of the answers remains cloistered in
universities and the knowledge vacuum has been filled by a variety of exotic explanations
- invoking ancient settlers from India or even visitors from outer space - that share a
common assumption that Africans were too primitive to have created such elaborate stone
structures.
Forgotten World defies the usual stereotypes about backward African farming methods
and shows that these settlements were at their peak between 1500 and 1820, that they
housed a substantial population, organised vast amounts of labour for infrastructural
development, and displayed extraordinary levels of agricultural innovation and
productivity. The Koni were part of a trading system linked to the coast of Mozambique
and the wider world of Indian Ocean trade beyond.
Forgotten World tells the story of Bokoni through rigorous historical and archaeological
research, and lavishly illustrates it with stunning photographic images. |
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