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Title: | Evidence for Interaction from Recent Hunter-Gatherer Sites in the Caledon Valley |
Author: | Thorp, Carolyn |
Year: | 1997 |
Periodical: | African Archaeological Review |
Volume: | 14 |
Issue: | 4 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 231-256 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | archaeology prehistory Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Anthropology and Archaeology |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022207917227 |
Abstract: | This paper examines the evidence for contact between hunter-gatherers and agropastoralists during the 19th and early 20th centuries from excavated hunter-gatherer sites in a frontier zone in the Caledon Valley, South Africa. The archaeological evidence for interaction reviewed here comes from rock shelters excavated by the author at Rooikrans and Westbury. Clientship and intermarriage are reconstructed first from documentary sources. There are several historical accounts of a close relationship between notably the Sotho-speaking Taung and their 'San allies'. The author argues that the varying degree and character of interaction described in these accounts could explain the differences between the material remains of hunter-gatherer occupations in different parts of the Caledon Valley. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. |