Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there
has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition …

This article presents a broad overview of excavated animal taxa and methods of
procurement at the Middle Iron Age site of Schroda (AD 900–1100), located in the …

The discussion of the transition to farming in southern Africa and the formation of Early Iron
Age society, referred to in Mozambican archaeology as the Early Farming Communities …

Ratho Kroonkop is one of several hilltop sites in the Shashe-Limpopo Confluence Area
(SLCA) that Schoeman (2009; also see Brunton et al. 2013) interpreted as a rain-control site …

Abstract Research in the Limpopo Valley has documented over 500 Middle Iron Age sites
(AD 900–1320) relevant to the origins of Mapungubwe–the capital of the first indigenous …

Foods and foodways are closely connected to social processes and activities. The functions
of ceramic vessels in transporting, storing, processing, and serving food are tied to these …

We present the results of a macro-botanical analysis of carbonised seeds from Schroda,
considered the earliest Limpopo Valley settlement of socio-economic and political …

Southern African trade has primarily been examined through farmer archaeological
sequences. One reason for this approach is that trade opportunities along the East African …

Livestock were a key social and economic component of agropastoral Middle Iron-Age
societies who occupied Middle Limpopo River valley between during the early second …