Joanna Behrens & Neil Parsons 
Five Hundred Years Rediscovered [EPUB ebook] 
Southern African precedents and prospects

Preface
1 Introduction
Section 1 Disciplinary Identities: Methodological Considerations
2 Historical archaeologies of southern Africa: precedents and prospects
J. Behrens and N. Swanepoel
3 South Africa in Africa more than five hundred years ago: some questions
N. Parsons
4 Towards an outline of the oral geography, historical identity and political economy of the Late Precolonial Tswana in the Rustenburg region
S. Hall, M. Anderson, J. Boeyens and F. Coetzee
5 Metals beyond frontiers: exploring the production, distribution and use of metals in the Free State grasslands, South Africa
S. Chirikure, S. Hall and T. Maggs
6 de Tuin, a 19th-century mission station in the Northern Cape
A.G. Morris
7 Reinterpreting the origins of Dzata: archaeology and legends
E. Hanisch
Section 2 Material Identities
8 Revisiting Bokoni: populating the stone ruins of the Mpumalanga Escarpment
P. Delius and M.H. Schoeman
9 The Mpumalanga Escarpment settlements: some answers, many questions
T. Maggs
10 Post-European contact glass beads from the southern African interior: a tentative look at trade, consumption and identities
M. Wood
11 Ceramic alliances: pottery and the history of the Kekana Ndebele in the old Transvaal
A.B. Esterhuysen
Section 3 ‘Troubled Times’: Warfare, State Formation and Migration in the Interior
12 Rediscovering the Ndwandwe kingdom
J. Wright
13 Swazi oral tradition and Northern Nguni historical archaeology
P. Bonner
14 Mfecane mutation in Central Africa: a comparison of the Makololo and the Ngoni in Zambia, 1830s-1898
A. Kanduza
List of contributors
Index