Gavin Whitelaw
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 164649 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gavin Whitelaw |
| PRENOMES | Gavin |
| SOBRENOME | Whitelaw |
| ASSINATURA | WHITELAW G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1638-7222 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Multi-purpose pots
About 2000 years ago, Bantu-speaking people introduced an agro-pastoral lifeway into southern Africa and lived in northern and eastern lowland parts of the region by 700 CE. Also defined as the ‘southern African Iron Age’, pottery is the most common and diagnostic artefact category. The soil chemistry of several farming sites resulted in poor faunal preservation and especially within Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, the possibilities for dietar…
The Rhino Early Iron Age site, Thabazimbi, South Africa
The Rhino Early Iron Age site near Thabazimbi in the far north of South Africa is a sixth- to eighth-century AD example of an agricultural settlement that followed the principles of the Central Cattle Pattern. In addition to settlement features, salvage excavations yielded a fragment of a ‘Lydenburg Head’ in association with Happy Rest pottery. Together with other data, head sculptures appear to be a Kalundu Tradition trait. The head, long-term o…
Cognitive Archaeology
Earliest Evidence for the Ivory Trade in Southern Africa
KwaGandaganda, Ndondondwane and Wosi were major Early Farming Community settlements in what is today the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. These sites have yielded, among other remains, abundant evidence of ivory and ivory working dating to the seventh–tenth centuries ad, pre-dating by approximately 200 years the better-known ivory artefacts from sites in the Limpopo River Valley and surrounding regions. We report the results of carbon, nit…
Economy and Cosmology in the Iron Age of KwaZulu-Natal
"Economy and Cosmology in the Iron Age of KwaZulu-Natal." Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 50(3), pp. 423–424
Pollution Concepts and Marriage for the Southern African Iron Age
This article draws on the ethnography of South African Bantu speakers to model an archaeologically useful relationship between pollution beliefs and marriage. Typically, pollution beliefs intensify with more complex marital alliances, first with the increasing significance of relations between wives and their cattle-linked siblings, and then with a shift towards a preference for cousin marriage. The article applies the model to the Early Iron Age…
Anthropology and History in the Southern African Iron Age
An ongoing collaborative initiative by southern African archaeologists and historians has generated two publications: the book Five Hundred Years Rediscovered and a special issue of African Studies. Overall, the initiative is positive. The reviews of research histories in both publications, especially in African Studies, take strongly critical positions on archaeology. The critiques, directed generally at anthropological approaches in archaeology…
Comment on Greenfield and Van Schalkwyk's article on Ndondondwane, Azania , 2003
(2005). Comment on Greenfield and Van Schalkwyk's article on Ndondondwane, Azania, 2003. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa: Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 122-127.
The Archaeology of Southernmost Africa From C. 2000 Bp to the Early 1800s
Southernmost Africa (here meaning South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland) provides an excellent opportunity for investigating the relations between farming, herding and hunting-gathering communities over the past 2,000 years, as well as the development of societies committed to food production and their increasing engagement with the wider world through systems of exchange spanning the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. This paper surveys and evaluates the…
Lydenburg Revisited
Early Iron Age Metal Working from the Site of Kwagandaganda, Natal, South Africa
Towards an Early Iron Age worldview
L'auteur presente les fouilles qu'il a mene sur deux sites de l'Age du Fer ancien, Nanda et KwaGandaganda, dans le KwaZulu-Natal, dans le but de determiner l'organisation spatiale de ces habitats et en particulier, des structures attestant des activites d'elevage et d'agriculture (etables et greniers). Il souhaite ainsi contribuer au debat sur l'organisation des habitats bantous en CCP (Central Cattle Pattern), qui serait represente selon T.N. Hu…
Comment on Schrire
Earliest Evidence for the Ivory Trade in Southern Africa
KwaGandaganda, Ndondondwane and Wosi were major Early Farming Community settlements in what is today the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. These sites have yielded, among other remains, abundant evidence of ivory and ivory working dating to the seventh–tenth centuries ad, pre-dating by approximately 200 years the better-known ivory artefacts from sites in the Limpopo River Valley and surrounding regions. We report the results of carbon, nit…
Towards an Early Iron Age worldview
L'auteur presente les fouilles qu'il a mene sur deux sites de l'Age du Fer ancien, Nanda et KwaGandaganda, dans le KwaZulu-Natal, dans le but de determiner l'organisation spatiale de ces habitats et en particulier, des structures attestant des activites d'elevage et d'agriculture (etables et greniers). Il souhaite ainsi contribuer au debat sur l'organisation des habitats bantous en CCP (Central Cattle Pattern), qui serait represente selon T.N. Hu…
Early Iron Age Metal Working from the Site of Kwagandaganda, Natal, South Africa
Economy and Cosmology in the Iron Age of KwaZulu-Natal
"Economy and Cosmology in the Iron Age of KwaZulu-Natal." Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 50(3), pp. 423–424
Lydenburg Revisited
Pollution Concepts and Marriage for the Southern African Iron Age
This article draws on the ethnography of South African Bantu speakers to model an archaeologically useful relationship between pollution beliefs and marriage. Typically, pollution beliefs intensify with more complex marital alliances, first with the increasing significance of relations between wives and their cattle-linked siblings, and then with a shift towards a preference for cousin marriage. The article applies the model to the Early Iron Age…
The Rhino Early Iron Age site, Thabazimbi, South Africa
The Rhino Early Iron Age site near Thabazimbi in the far north of South Africa is a sixth- to eighth-century AD example of an agricultural settlement that followed the principles of the Central Cattle Pattern. In addition to settlement features, salvage excavations yielded a fragment of a ‘Lydenburg Head’ in association with Happy Rest pottery. Together with other data, head sculptures appear to be a Kalundu Tradition trait. The head, long-term o…
Anthropology and History in the Southern African Iron Age
An ongoing collaborative initiative by southern African archaeologists and historians has generated two publications: the book Five Hundred Years Rediscovered and a special issue of African Studies. Overall, the initiative is positive. The reviews of research histories in both publications, especially in African Studies, take strongly critical positions on archaeology. The critiques, directed generally at anthropological approaches in archaeology…
Comment on Schrire
Early Iron Age Metal Working from the Site of Kwagandaganda, Natal, South Africa
Towards an Early Iron Age worldview
L'auteur presente les fouilles qu'il a mene sur deux sites de l'Age du Fer ancien, Nanda et KwaGandaganda, dans le KwaZulu-Natal, dans le but de determiner l'organisation spatiale de ces habitats et en particulier, des structures attestant des activites d'elevage et d'agriculture (etables et greniers). Il souhaite ainsi contribuer au debat sur l'organisation des habitats bantous en CCP (Central Cattle Pattern), qui serait represente selon T.N. Hu…
Lydenburg Revisited
Comment on Greenfield and Van Schalkwyk's article on Ndondondwane, Azania , 2003
(2005). Comment on Greenfield and Van Schalkwyk's article on Ndondondwane, Azania, 2003. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa: Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 122-127.
The Archaeology of Southernmost Africa From C. 2000 Bp to the Early 1800s
Southernmost Africa (here meaning South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland) provides an excellent opportunity for investigating the relations between farming, herding and hunting-gathering communities over the past 2,000 years, as well as the development of societies committed to food production and their increasing engagement with the wider world through systems of exchange spanning the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. This paper surveys and evaluates the…
Anthropology and History in the Southern African Iron Age
An ongoing collaborative initiative by southern African archaeologists and historians has generated two publications: the book Five Hundred Years Rediscovered and a special issue of African Studies. Overall, the initiative is positive. The reviews of research histories in both publications, especially in African Studies, take strongly critical positions on archaeology. The critiques, directed generally at anthropological approaches in archaeology…
Pollution Concepts and Marriage for the Southern African Iron Age
This article draws on the ethnography of South African Bantu speakers to model an archaeologically useful relationship between pollution beliefs and marriage. Typically, pollution beliefs intensify with more complex marital alliances, first with the increasing significance of relations between wives and their cattle-linked siblings, and then with a shift towards a preference for cousin marriage. The article applies the model to the Early Iron Age…
Economy and Cosmology in the Iron Age of KwaZulu-Natal
"Economy and Cosmology in the Iron Age of KwaZulu-Natal." Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 50(3), pp. 423–424
Earliest Evidence for the Ivory Trade in Southern Africa
KwaGandaganda, Ndondondwane and Wosi were major Early Farming Community settlements in what is today the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. These sites have yielded, among other remains, abundant evidence of ivory and ivory working dating to the seventh–tenth centuries ad, pre-dating by approximately 200 years the better-known ivory artefacts from sites in the Limpopo River Valley and surrounding regions. We report the results of carbon, nit…
Cognitive Archaeology
The Rhino Early Iron Age site, Thabazimbi, South Africa
The Rhino Early Iron Age site near Thabazimbi in the far north of South Africa is a sixth- to eighth-century AD example of an agricultural settlement that followed the principles of the Central Cattle Pattern. In addition to settlement features, salvage excavations yielded a fragment of a ‘Lydenburg Head’ in association with Happy Rest pottery. Together with other data, head sculptures appear to be a Kalundu Tradition trait. The head, long-term o…
Multi-purpose pots
About 2000 years ago, Bantu-speaking people introduced an agro-pastoral lifeway into southern Africa and lived in northern and eastern lowland parts of the region by 700 CE. Also defined as the ‘southern African Iron Age’, pottery is the most common and diagnostic artefact category. The soil chemistry of several farming sites resulted in poor faunal preservation and especially within Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, the possibilities for dietar…
Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (12 obras) · Archaeology (9 obras) · Geography (9 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 obras) · History (6 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Geology (3 obras) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (3 obras) · Iron Age (3 obras)