Precolonial Agricultural Terracing in Bokoni, South Africa
Typology and an Exploratory Excavation
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 12859166 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Mats Widgren (Stockholm University, autor correspondente), Tim Maggs (University of Cape Town, autor correspondente), Anna Plikk (0000-0001-6523-0796, Stockholm University, autor correspondente), Jan Risberg (0000-0002-5562-6364, Stockholm University, autor correspondente), Maria H Schoeman (0000-0002-3680-4276, University of the Witwatersrand, autor correspondente), Lars-Ove Westerberg (0000-0002-3388-2965, Bolin Centre for Climate Research, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2016 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 33-53 |
| Data de publicação | 2016-06-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Journal of African Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1612-1651 • E-ISSN: 2191-5784 |
| Editora | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.3213/2191-5784-10281 |
| OpenAlex | W2273304987 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 12 |
| Referências citadas | 25 |
Earlier work on the terraced settlements of the Bokoni area (16 th to 19 th century, Mpumalanga province, South Africa) focussed on the homesteads, their contents, layout and chronology. This paper suggests a terminology and typology of agrarian structures in Bokoni in order to improve comparative approaches in Africa and beyond. The typology and an excavation of the terracing permit possible preliminary conclusions relevant for the further analysis of the terracing and stone-walling in Bokoni. The terracing developed incrementally, whereby cultivation, stone-clearing and terracing were intermixed processes. This is supported both by the organic content in a section of a terrace and by a phytolith analysis. The phytolith analysis furthermore indicated that maize was cultivated on the terraces, but this should be seen as a pilot study only, and presence of maize in Bokoni must be tested with other archaeobotanical methods
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Biology · Excavation · Geography · Human settlement · Phytolith · Terrace (agriculture · Typology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology
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| Obras citantes distintas | 12 |
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| Citações por ano | 1,5 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 11 |