In South Africa, as in so many regions, the world of dirt archaeology in shelter floors and of
rock art on shelter walls, have also been rather separate as domains of study. In research at …

Based on extensive archival research in six countries and intensive fieldwork, the book
analyzes the history of the village of Nkholongue on the eastern (Mozambican) shores of …

The missionary encounter between the London Missionary Society and Sotho-Tswana
communities of southern Africa has been explored by Jean and John Comaroff as work that …

This article, largely on the basis of in-depth research in archives in Lisbon, provides an
account of the trading systems linking Delagoa Bay to its southern hinterland. Within this …

This article complicates historical understandings of the extreme violence of late nineteenth-
century European colonialism by examining African agency in the build up to the most …

The three decades since 1960 saw the Iron Age established as a major field of research. At
first, South Africa lagged behind Zimbabwe and Zambia, but from the mid-1960s and …

TWO NOTEWORTHY HISTORICAL CONTROVERSIES have proceeded in parallel fashion
since the early 1980s without the protagonists in either debate being aware of the other. One …

Changing climates affect human societies differently depending on societal structures,
cultural perceptions and their relative vulnerability and resilience. In this study, we explore …

In Deviant Destinations: Zimbabwe and North to South Migration, Rose Jaji critiques and
challenges assumptions made about migration between the global North and South …

If Julian Cobbing is right in his contention that the root causes of the mfecane lie not in
Zululand but in disruptive forces emanating from Mozambique and the Cape, then rethinking …