An Ageless View of First Millennium AD Southern African Ceramics

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" An Ageless View of First Millennium AD Southern African Ceramics "
Karim Sadr

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1070060
Doc. No	:	LA113689
Call No	:	‭10.3213/1612-1651-10105‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Karim Sadr
Title & Author	:	An Ageless View of First Millennium AD Southern African Ceramics [Article]\ Karim Sadr
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of African Archaeology
Date	:	2008
Volume/ Issue Number	:	6/1
Page No	:	103–129
Abstract	:	In southern Africa, the Later Stone Age and the Early Iron Age are generally treated as separate archaeologies, as if they really were different periods. In fact, the entire Iron Age overlaps with the last part of the Later Stone Age, and it is argued here that at the sub-continental scale the archaeology of one ‘Age’ might be better understood with reference to the other. The point is illustrated by plotting the distribution of all first millennium ceramics on the same map, regardless of their ‘Age.’ This sheds new light on the history of interactions and perhaps population movements in the sub-continent during the first millennium AD. In southern Africa, the Later Stone Age and the Early Iron Age are generally treated as separate archaeologies, as if they really were different periods. In fact, the entire Iron Age overlaps with the last part of the Later Stone Age, and it is argued here that at the sub-continental scale the archaeology of one ‘Age’ might be better understood with reference to the other. The point is illustrated by plotting the distribution of all first millennium ceramics on the same map, regardless of their ‘Age.’ This sheds new light on the history of interactions and perhaps population movements in the sub-continent during the first millennium AD.
Descriptor	:	Ceramics
Descriptor	:	Early Iron Age
Descriptor	:	Later Stone Age
Descriptor	:	Southern Africa
Descriptor	:	thick and thin wares
Location & Call number	:	‭10.3213/1612-1651-10105‬