A Reappraisal of the History of the Rhodesian Iron Age Up to the Fifteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8980176 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A J E Jaffey (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1966 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 189-195 |
| Publication date | 1966-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853700006265 |
| OpenAlex | W2119065677 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 7 |
The suggestions put forward in this paper may be summarized as follows. The linguistic, cultural and to some extent physical ancestors of the modern Bantu people south of the Zambezi, including the Shona, arrived in Rhodesia in the early part of the first millennium a.d. The B1 culture was not introduced by Shona migrants arriving in the eleventh century, but was a local development of the already existing Shona Iron Age A, attributable perhaps to prosperity gained from the gold trade. The B1 culture should not in fact be regarded as a separate culture from the A, that later fused with it, but as a variant of it, which because of the power and influence of those who developed and practised it eventually spread over a large area and became a common factor in the various local Shona cultures that had diverged, and continued to diverge, in the course of time
Ancient history · Bantu languages · Elite · Ethnology · Fifteenth · Genealogy · Iron Age · Linguistics · Political science · Power (physics · Prosperity · Shona · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Law
Central Africa from Cameroun to the Zambezi
The western Maghrib and Sudan
The East African interior
Trans-Saharan contacts and the Iron Age in West Africa
North Africa in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, 323 BC to AD 305
The legacy of prehistory
The East Coast, Madagascar and the Indian Ocean
Upper and Lower Guinea
Central Africa from Cameroun to the Zambezi
The eastern Maghrib and the central Sudan
The Sahara and the Sudan from the Arab conquest of the Maghrib to the rise of the Almoravids
The Cambridge History of Africa
The Cambridge History of Africa
A General Review of the Early Iron Age of the Southern Half of Africa
New Pathways of Sociopolitical Complexity in Southern Africa
The Rise and Fall of Zimbabwe
Inyanga Prehistoric Settlements in Southern Rhodesia
Further Excavations in the Iron Age Deposits at the Tunnel Site, Gokomere Hill, Southern Rhodesia
Maramuca
The Southern Rhodesian Iron Age
The Greefswald Sequence
Some Developments in the Prehistory of the Bantu Languages
An Introduction to the History of Central Africa
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1971 - 2013 (43) |
| Highly cited | No |