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Title:Evidence for Interaction from Recent Hunter-Gatherer Sites in the Caledon Valley
Author:Thorp, CarolynISNI
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.
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