عنوان

THE VISIBILITY AND INVISIBILITY OF HERDERS KRAALS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, WITH REFERENCE TO A POSSIBLE EARLY CONTACT PERIOD KHOEKHOE KRAAL AT KFS 5, WESTERN CAPE

شماره

LA113664

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

THE VISIBILITY AND INVISIBILITY OF HERDERS KRAALS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, WITH REFERENCE TO A POSSIBLE EARLY CONTACT PERIOD KHOEKHOE KRAAL AT KFS 5, WESTERN CAPE

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

François-Xavier Fauvelle-Aymar, Karim Sadr, François Bon, et al.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

The Europeans who landed on the shores of the South African Cape from the late 15th century onwards encountered local herders whom they later referred to as the Hottentots (now known as the Khoekhoe). There are written references to the settlements and livestock of these pastoralists, but archaeologists have not had much success in discovering any such sites. This absence of archaeological evidence for recent Khoekhoe kraals has been interpreted by some scholars as an indication for a general archaeological invisibility of nomadic pastoralist sites. This article reports on the archaeology of an extensive, low density surface spread of artefacts, KFS 5 (Western Cape), which possibly represents a Khoekhoe kraal dating to the time of the first contact with Europeans. Data are compared to other archaeological evidence of cattle pens in southern Africa and the issues of the visibility of prehistoric and historic kraals are re-addressed. The Europeans who landed on the shores of the South African Cape from the late 15th century onwards encountered local herders whom they later referred to as the Hottentots (now known as the Khoekhoe). There are written references to the settlements and livestock of these pastoralists, but archaeologists have not had much success in discovering any such sites. This absence of archaeological evidence for recent Khoekhoe kraals has been interpreted by some scholars as an indication for a general archaeological invisibility of nomadic pastoralist sites. This article reports on the archaeology of an extensive, low density surface spread of artefacts, KFS 5 (Western Cape), which possibly represents a Khoekhoe kraal dating to the time of the first contact with Europeans. Data are compared to other archaeological evidence of cattle pens in southern Africa and the issues of the visibility of prehistoric and historic kraals are re-addressed.

تاريخ نشر

2006

توصيف ظاهري

253-271

عنوان

Journal of African Archaeology

شماره جلد

4/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2191-5784

اصطلاح موضوعی

Herders

اصطلاح موضوعی

historical archaeology

اصطلاح موضوعی

Khoekhoe

اصطلاح موضوعی

kraal

اصطلاح موضوعی

lithic industries

اصطلاح موضوعی

Southern Africa

اصطلاح موضوعی

vitrified dung

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Detlef Gronenborn

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

François Bon

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

François-Xavier Fauvelle-Aymar

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Karim Sadr

شماره بازیابی

10.3213/1612-1651-10075

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y