Phenyo C Thebe

Dados Biográficos

ID202042
NOMEPhenyo C Thebe
PRENOMESPhenyo C
SOBRENOMEThebe
ASSINATURATHEBE P C
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Botswana
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS10
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES39
TOTAL COMO AUTOR10
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2009
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H3

  • James Raymond ‘Jim’ Denbow (14 December 1946 to 18 July 2024)

    Phenyo C ThebeARTICLEAzania Archaeological Research in…2024Referências: 7

    in a hospital in Austin, Texas, with family and friends by his side.He was 78.Jim is survived by his two children

  • Archaeology in Botswana's history

    Open AccessPhenyo C Thebe, Boga Thura ManatshaARTICLEHistory Compass2023Referências: 14

    In this paper, we argue that archaeology plays a significant role in promoting history, and the two disciplines complement each other. The study uses archaeological monuments and sites to assess how these can be used to effectively enhance the transmission of history to the public. This paper demonstrates the tremendous value of historical archaeology beyond colonial records as a source of data for the voiceless. Our study concludes that well‐res…

  • The Manaledi Clay Mine

    Edwin Ν Wilmsen, Anne Griffiths et al.ARTICLEJournal of African Archaeology2019Citada por: 2Referências: 7

    Current potters in Manaledi village in the Tswapong Hills of Botswana aver that they and their ancestors for five generations have made pottery exclusively with clay from nearby sources. We begin with an examination of Manaledi and its clay mine to uncover current dialectics between village, landscape, clay, potters, and ancestors. Archaeological sherds found around the village and clay sources document occupation by makers of Early Iron Age (ca.…

  • Keeping up alliances

    Edwin Wilmsen, Edwin Ν Wilmsen et al.ARTICLEAzania Archaeological Research in…2019Citada por: 1Referências: 19

    Many sites with Zhizo, Leopard's Kopje and Khami pottery have been identified around the southern and eastern margins of Sowa Pan, eastern Botswana. This paper presents results of the analysis of sherds from the three largest such sites — Kaitshàa, Thabadimasego, Tora Nju — plus clay from 39 geological deposits. Sherd fabrics identified by optical petrography reveal that pots were made of clays from several lithological terrains. This suggests as…

  • Firing Pots in Contemporary South-Eastern Botswana

    Phenyo C Thebe, Karim SadrARTICLEEthnoarchaeology2017

    For many years, archaeologists in Southern Africa have equated pottery “style” with archaeological “cultures” and modern ethno-linguistic groups. In order to investigate this association, we undertook an ethnoarchaeological study of 41 contemporary potters in south-eastern Botswana to observe what social groupings of potters correlate with their preferences for a particular style of making and decorating pots. This paper presents and analyses the…

  • Forming and Shaping Pottery Boundaries in Contemporary South-Eastern Botswana

    Open AccessPhenyo C Thebe, Karim SadrARTICLEAfrican Archaeological Review2017Citada por: 5Referências: 29

  • Pottery decoration in contemporary southeastern Botswana

    Phenyo C Thebe, Karim SadrARTICLEAzania Archaeological Research in…2017Citada por: 4Referências: 36

    The presumed link between pottery style and linguistic identity has played a key role in the archaeological interpretation of the peopling of southern Africa. To re-assess this link, we study ceramic vessel decorations used by 41 contemporary potters in southeastern Botswana, who are from two separate language groups, come from six different ethnic groups, learned their craft in one of five different ‘schools’ of pottery and live scattered in ten…

  • Moijabana Rocks-Pilikwe Pots

    Edwin Ν Wilmsen, Edwin N Wilmsen et al.ARTICLEEthnoarchaeology2016

    Throughout the history of potting in Botswana, from about CE200 to the present, potters have used a variety of clays. Alluvial clays are favored by most potters today, but petrographic analyses show that prehistoric potters preferred primary clays directly derived from granite and basalt. Fortunately, a few potters in the region today still use granite-derived clays. We trace the processes by which potters of Pilikwe village mine weathered granit…

  • There is no hurry in Botswana”

    Open AccessChristian John Makgala, Phenyo C ThebeARTICLENew Contree2015

    The lack of a strict and disciplined adherence to keeping time or punctuality has been an issue of major concern to many authorities in the African public and private sectors. Botswana is no exception, as this article will demonstrate. So pervasive is lack of punctuality among Africans in sub-Saharan Africa that a stereotypical notion of “African time” gained currency a long time ago and is still prevalent to this day. Undoubtedly, this attitude …

  • The social geography of pottery in Botswana as reconstructed by optical petrography

    Edwin Ν Wilmsen, D Killick et al.ARTICLEJournal of African Archaeology2009Citada por: 27

    Over the last 30 years Wilmsen and Denbow have recovered and studied pottery from 28 sites in Botswana dated between ca cal AD 200 and AD 1885. Some sherds in several of these assemblages appear, on stylistic evidence, to have been made in other sub-regions of Botswana than where they were found. These inferences are confirmed in this paper by use of an independent archaeometric technique, optical petrography. We are able to demonstrate the trans…