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Access to Cattle Resources in a Tswana Capital

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African Historical Archaeologies

Part of the book series: Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology ((CGHA))

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This chapter considers the archaeology of historical African societies and their use in generating models for the understanding of earlier communities. There is nothing new in suggesting such approaches and indeed there are significant theoretical problems in using later episodes to explain earlier archaeological events. However, as with the use of it’s rich ethnographies, Africa’s plentiful historical contexts remain greatly under-utilised resources in helping to reveal the diversity of human experience generated by the African continent. With both histories and ethnographies, the attraction lies in the multitude of societies with a wide range of political systems that, in many cases, existed into the twentieth century.

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Reid, A. (2004). Access to Cattle Resources in a Tswana Capital. In: Reid, A.M., Lane, P.J. (eds) African Historical Archaeologies. Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8863-8_11

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