Robert T Nyamushosho
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 376326 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert T Nyamushosho |
| PRENOMES | Robert T |
| SOBRENOME | Nyamushosho |
| ASSINATURA | NYAMUSHOSHO R T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3449-9316 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Early State Formation in Southern Africa
This review draws on the latest insights from archaeology, history, and scientific analyses of archaeological materials to offer a critical reappraisal of the state of the field in southern African early state formation. Combined insights from recent radiocarbon chronologies, ceramic typologies, settlement pattern data, and craft production remnants strongly signal the synchronous emergence of early states at several widely dispersed sites on the…
Crafting and everyday archaeology at Chumnungwa
Chumnungwa Glass Beads
Mixed memories
In this article we look at how colonial heritage as an archive is being curated, and in some cases obliterated within selective priorities in South Africa and Zimbabwe that are informed by decolonial thinking and politics. We draw on the idea of archivability by referring to an inferno that destroyed part of the Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town and contestations associated with the presence and management of Cecil John Rhodes grave. …
Mtanye revisited
In southern Zambezia, the early second millennium AD witnessed socio-political transformations within local agropastoralist societies. Research continues to unearth evidence of multiple places that likely functioned as the centres of state-based polities. This paper reports on surveys and excavations undertaken at Mtanye, located about 50 km east of Gwanda in southwestern Zimbabwe and approximately 90 km north of the Shashi-Limpopo Confluence Are…
Board games and social life in Iron Age southern Africa
Stringing Together Cowrie Shells in the African Archaeological Record with Special Reference to Southern Africa
Archaeological explorations of the meaning of ‘trade objects’, such as glass beads and cowrie shells, remain hampered by theoretical and methodological limitations in both their analyses and interpretations. In this paper, we develop a methodology for critically engaging in multi-scalar questions of the circulation, exchange, and value of cowrie shells in African archaeological contexts. Species, size, dorsal modifications, and depositional conte…
States, agency, and power on the ‘peripheries
In southern Africa, as elsewhere, the tendency of Iron Age (CE 200-1900) researchers has been to focus on the more prominent places on the landscape, especially those believed by pioneering archaeologists to have been centres of big states. Consequently, most research foci were accorded to Mapungubwe, Great Zimbabwe, Khami, Danamombe and many other places considered as centres (mizinda) of expansive territorial states. However, landscapes away fr…
Archaeological implications of ethnographically grounded functional study of pottery from Nyanga, Zimbabwe
No Big Brother Here
In southern Africa, there has been a long-standing but unsubstantiated assumption that the site of Khami evolved out of Great Zimbabwe's demise around ad 1450. The study of local ceramics from the two sites indicate that the respective ceramic traditions are clearly different across the entire sequence, pointing towards different cultural affiliations in their origins. Furthermore, there are tangible typological differences between and within the…
Are drylands marginal? The case of Mananzve, Shashi region, southwestern Zimbabwe
The general conviction in the Iron Age archaeology of southern Zambezia is that drylands such as the Shashi region are marginal landscapes that did not host any significant food producing communities in the past. Resultantly, for those communities that occupied these landscapes, their settlement histories have been always portrayed as short-lived, since their existence is mostly understood as by chance and not choice. However, new data recovered …
The chronology, craft production and economy of the Butua capital of Khami, southwestern Zimbabwe
This paper explores the material culture of Khami, the precolonial capital of the Butua kingdom in southwestern Zimbabwe, with a view to understanding its chronology, as well as patterns of production and distribution based on the objects recovered from walled and non-walled areas of the site. The recovery of production debris in multiple contexts across the site suggests that household-based production was a feature of households across Khami. M…
Elites and commoners at Great Zimbabwe
Archaeological indicators of inequality at major historic centres of power have long been poorly understood. This paper is the first to address the archaeology of class and inequality at Great Zimbabwe (AD 1000–1700) from an African-centred viewpoint. Data from new excavations, combined with insights from Shona philosophy, practice and ethnography, suggest that the categories of ‘elite’ and ‘commoner’ were situational and transient, and that they…
Concept and knowledge revision in the post-colony
Stringing Together Cowrie Shells in the African Archaeological Record with Special Reference to Southern Africa
Archaeological explorations of the meaning of ‘trade objects’, such as glass beads and cowrie shells, remain hampered by theoretical and methodological limitations in both their analyses and interpretations. In this paper, we develop a methodology for critically engaging in multi-scalar questions of the circulation, exchange, and value of cowrie shells in African archaeological contexts. Species, size, dorsal modifications, and depositional conte…
No Big Brother Here
In southern Africa, there has been a long-standing but unsubstantiated assumption that the site of Khami evolved out of Great Zimbabwe's demise around ad 1450. The study of local ceramics from the two sites indicate that the respective ceramic traditions are clearly different across the entire sequence, pointing towards different cultural affiliations in their origins. Furthermore, there are tangible typological differences between and within the…
Elites and commoners at Great Zimbabwe
Archaeological indicators of inequality at major historic centres of power have long been poorly understood. This paper is the first to address the archaeology of class and inequality at Great Zimbabwe (AD 1000–1700) from an African-centred viewpoint. Data from new excavations, combined with insights from Shona philosophy, practice and ethnography, suggest that the categories of ‘elite’ and ‘commoner’ were situational and transient, and that they…
Are drylands marginal? The case of Mananzve, Shashi region, southwestern Zimbabwe
The general conviction in the Iron Age archaeology of southern Zambezia is that drylands such as the Shashi region are marginal landscapes that did not host any significant food producing communities in the past. Resultantly, for those communities that occupied these landscapes, their settlement histories have been always portrayed as short-lived, since their existence is mostly understood as by chance and not choice. However, new data recovered …
The chronology, craft production and economy of the Butua capital of Khami, southwestern Zimbabwe
This paper explores the material culture of Khami, the precolonial capital of the Butua kingdom in southwestern Zimbabwe, with a view to understanding its chronology, as well as patterns of production and distribution based on the objects recovered from walled and non-walled areas of the site. The recovery of production debris in multiple contexts across the site suggests that household-based production was a feature of households across Khami. M…
Board games and social life in Iron Age southern Africa
States, agency, and power on the ‘peripheries
In southern Africa, as elsewhere, the tendency of Iron Age (CE 200-1900) researchers has been to focus on the more prominent places on the landscape, especially those believed by pioneering archaeologists to have been centres of big states. Consequently, most research foci were accorded to Mapungubwe, Great Zimbabwe, Khami, Danamombe and many other places considered as centres (mizinda) of expansive territorial states. However, landscapes away fr…
Chumnungwa Glass Beads
Concept and knowledge revision in the post-colony
No Big Brother Here
In southern Africa, there has been a long-standing but unsubstantiated assumption that the site of Khami evolved out of Great Zimbabwe's demise around ad 1450. The study of local ceramics from the two sites indicate that the respective ceramic traditions are clearly different across the entire sequence, pointing towards different cultural affiliations in their origins. Furthermore, there are tangible typological differences between and within the…
Are drylands marginal? The case of Mananzve, Shashi region, southwestern Zimbabwe
The general conviction in the Iron Age archaeology of southern Zambezia is that drylands such as the Shashi region are marginal landscapes that did not host any significant food producing communities in the past. Resultantly, for those communities that occupied these landscapes, their settlement histories have been always portrayed as short-lived, since their existence is mostly understood as by chance and not choice. However, new data recovered …
The chronology, craft production and economy of the Butua capital of Khami, southwestern Zimbabwe
This paper explores the material culture of Khami, the precolonial capital of the Butua kingdom in southwestern Zimbabwe, with a view to understanding its chronology, as well as patterns of production and distribution based on the objects recovered from walled and non-walled areas of the site. The recovery of production debris in multiple contexts across the site suggests that household-based production was a feature of households across Khami. M…
Elites and commoners at Great Zimbabwe
Archaeological indicators of inequality at major historic centres of power have long been poorly understood. This paper is the first to address the archaeology of class and inequality at Great Zimbabwe (AD 1000–1700) from an African-centred viewpoint. Data from new excavations, combined with insights from Shona philosophy, practice and ethnography, suggest that the categories of ‘elite’ and ‘commoner’ were situational and transient, and that they…
Archaeological implications of ethnographically grounded functional study of pottery from Nyanga, Zimbabwe
Stringing Together Cowrie Shells in the African Archaeological Record with Special Reference to Southern Africa
Archaeological explorations of the meaning of ‘trade objects’, such as glass beads and cowrie shells, remain hampered by theoretical and methodological limitations in both their analyses and interpretations. In this paper, we develop a methodology for critically engaging in multi-scalar questions of the circulation, exchange, and value of cowrie shells in African archaeological contexts. Species, size, dorsal modifications, and depositional conte…
States, agency, and power on the ‘peripheries
In southern Africa, as elsewhere, the tendency of Iron Age (CE 200-1900) researchers has been to focus on the more prominent places on the landscape, especially those believed by pioneering archaeologists to have been centres of big states. Consequently, most research foci were accorded to Mapungubwe, Great Zimbabwe, Khami, Danamombe and many other places considered as centres (mizinda) of expansive territorial states. However, landscapes away fr…
Mtanye revisited
In southern Zambezia, the early second millennium AD witnessed socio-political transformations within local agropastoralist societies. Research continues to unearth evidence of multiple places that likely functioned as the centres of state-based polities. This paper reports on surveys and excavations undertaken at Mtanye, located about 50 km east of Gwanda in southwestern Zimbabwe and approximately 90 km north of the Shashi-Limpopo Confluence Are…
Board games and social life in Iron Age southern Africa
Chumnungwa Glass Beads
Mixed memories
In this article we look at how colonial heritage as an archive is being curated, and in some cases obliterated within selective priorities in South Africa and Zimbabwe that are informed by decolonial thinking and politics. We draw on the idea of archivability by referring to an inferno that destroyed part of the Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town and contestations associated with the presence and management of Cecil John Rhodes grave. …
Crafting and everyday archaeology at Chumnungwa
Early State Formation in Southern Africa
This review draws on the latest insights from archaeology, history, and scientific analyses of archaeological materials to offer a critical reappraisal of the state of the field in southern African early state formation. Combined insights from recent radiocarbon chronologies, ceramic typologies, settlement pattern data, and craft production remnants strongly signal the synchronous emergence of early states at several widely dispersed sites on the…
Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (12 obras) · Archaeology (11 obras) · History (10 obras) · Geography (9 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 obras) · History (6 obras) · Anthropology (5 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras)