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An archaeological investigation into the social structure of a stone-walled site in the North West Province, South Africa
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2016.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/55836 An archaeological investigation into the social structure of a stone-walled site in the North West Province, South Africa Ashley, Ceri Antonites, Alex J. Jordaan, Jacqueline Archaeology UCTD Humanities theses SDG-04 SDG-04: Quality education Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2016. This master’s study concerns a Tswana stone-walled site in the North West Province. Within this province, the Zeerust-Rustenburg-Pilanesberg region has been of particular interest to Tswana settlement studies. In this region, the Tswana built stone-walled settlements from the mid 17th to the 19th century CE; altering their settlement style from dispersed to aggregated during this time. The aggregated settlements reflect a centralisation of socio-political authority in the region. However, prior research has focussed predominantly on these aggregated settlements, with little research conducted on small-scaled sites. To further understand the communities inhabiting this region during this time we need to look at varying scaled sites. A more nuanced view of regional interaction, group association, and identity is formed from this perspective. This research utilises historical, ethnographic, and archaeological data to interpret a small scaled site, termed Lebenya. The historical data presents a possible identity of the past community who inhabited the site, the Phiring. However, the archaeological data could not conclusively link the site to this past group. Nonetheless, the archaeological data presents new spatial and excavated data for the region, specifically expanding the range of documented small-scaled sites. Anthropology and Archaeology MA Unrestricted 2016-07-14T07:12:55Z 2016-07-14T07:12:55Z 2016-08-31 2016 Dissertation Jordaan, J 2016, An archaeological investigation into the social structure of a stone-walled site in the North West Province, South Africa, MA Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/55836> S2016 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/55836 en © 2016 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Archaeology UCTD Humanities theses SDG-04 SDG-04: Quality education An archaeological investigation into the social structure of a stone-walled site in the North West Province, South Africa |
| title | An archaeological investigation into the social structure of a stone-walled site in the North West Province, South Africa |
| title_full | An archaeological investigation into the social structure of a stone-walled site in the North West Province, South Africa |
| title_fullStr | An archaeological investigation into the social structure of a stone-walled site in the North West Province, South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | An archaeological investigation into the social structure of a stone-walled site in the North West Province, South Africa |
| title_short | An archaeological investigation into the social structure of a stone-walled site in the North West Province, South Africa |
| title_sort | archaeological investigation into the social structure of a stone walled site in the north west province south africa |
| topic | Archaeology UCTD Humanities theses SDG-04 SDG-04: Quality education |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/55836 |