Interaction between South-Eastern San and Southern Nguni and Sotho Communities c.1400 to c.1880

Jolly, Pieter

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“…However, iron and decorated pottery, or at least shared ceramic styles, appear on both LSA and Iron Age sites and it is possible that "invisible exports," such as skins, honey, meat, or the provision of herding services to agropastoralists, moved in the opposite direction. These exchanges may have been more formally constituted within the context of patron/client relations, as Mazel (1989) and Jolly (1993) suggest. The presence of OES beads at Iron Age sites in the Orange Free State suggests that such links were established right from the beginning of agropastoralist settlement on the southern highveld; Sotho oral traditions document the exchange inter alia of ostrich feathers and dassie skins for tobacco and cannabis (Ellenberger, 1912).…”

Section: The Last 2000 Years--marine Shell and Ostrich Eggshellmentioning

confidence: 95%

Prehistoric exchange and interaction in southeastern southern africa: Marine shells and ostrich eggshell

Mitchell

1996

Afr Archaeol Rev

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Section: The Last 2000 Years--marine Shell and Ostrich Eggshellmentioning

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Prehistoric exchange and interaction in southeastern southern africa: Marine shells and ostrich eggshell

Mitchell

1996

Afr Archaeol Rev

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“…Southern African oral history records numerous cases of incoming Bantu chiefs making strategic marriages with San hunter-gatherer wives (Jolly 1996). Turnbull (1965) described how sometimes male villagers of the Ituri Forest took a Mbuti wife, but never the reverse.…”

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Kinship, Marriage, and the Genetics of Past Human Dispersals

2009

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The extent to which colonizing farmer populations have overwhelmed or "replaced" indigenous forager populations, as opposed to having intermarried with them, has been widely debated. Indigenous-colonist "admixture" is often represented in genetic models as a single parameter that, although parsimonious and simple, is incongruous with the sex-specifi c nature of mtDNA and Y-chromosome data. To help interpret genetic patterns, we can construct useful null hypotheses about the generalized migration history of females (mtDNA) as opposed to males (Y chromosome), which differ signifi cantly in almost every ethnographically known society. We seek to integrate ethnographic knowledge into models that incorporate new social parameters for predicting geographic patterns in mtDNA and Y-chromosome distributions. We provide an example of a model simulation for the spread of agriculture in which this individual-scale evidence is used to refine the parameters. Abstract The extent to which colonizing farmer populations have overwhelmed or "replaced" indigenous forager populations, as opposed to having intermarried with them, has been widely debated. Indigenous-colonist "admixture" is often represented in genetic models as a single parameter that, although parsimonious and simple, is incongruous with the sex-specifi c nature of mtDNA and Y-chromosome data. To help interpret genetic patterns, we can construct useful null hypotheses about the generalized migration history of females (mtDNA) as opposed to males (Y chromosome), which differ significantly in almost every ethnographically known society. We seek to integrate ethnographic knowledge into models that incorporate new social parameters for predicting geographic patterns in mtDNA and Y-chromosome distributions.We provide an example of a model simulation for the spread of agriculture in which this individual-scale evidence is used to refi ne the parameters.Understanding the processes through which populations grow and disperse is crucial to the study of human history and diversity and forms a major topic in anthropology and other related disciplines. A key problem is determining the extent to which colonizing populations (e.g., modern humans, Neolithic farmers, European colonists) overwhelmed or "replaced" native populations (e.g., Neanderthals, hunter-gatherers, non-European indigenous societies), as opposed to having integrated into or intermarried with them. These issues have been debated by numerous researchers in a variety of different historical and regional contexts, but no consensus has yet been reached about whether or not it is possible to discern any general patterns. Here, we aim to contribute to a more sophisticated understanding of human migratory activity by integrating data drawn from several disciplines, namely, archaeology, ethnography, and human genetics. Our critique focuses on the highly infl uential wave of advance model of human dispersals, as fi rst developed by Ammerman and Cavalli-Sforza (1984). We argue that this model is not equipped to con...

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“…But the transfer of this technique from geological contexts to rock art is highly problematic (Pearce, in press). Images are also being seen from the perspective of interaction between the San and other peoples (e.g., Dowson, 1994Dowson, , 1995Blundell, 2004;Loubser and Laurens, 1994;Jolly, 1986Jolly, , 1996Jolly, , 2002. For instance, Blundell (2004), using concepts of embodiment, shows that certain types of paintings do not conform to classic fine-line San paintings or to images made by Khoekhoen or Bantu-speakers.…”

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The Evolution of Theory, Method and Technique in Southern African Rock Art Research

Lewis‐Williams

2006

J Archaeol Method Theory

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Southern African rock art research has progressed from an essentially denigrating social and political milieu, through an empiricist period, to contemporary social and historical approaches. Empiricism, once thought to be the salvation of southern African rock art research, was a theoretically and methodologically flawed enterprise. Attempts to see the art through an emic perspective facilitated by copious nineteenth-and twentieth-century San ethnography is a more useful approach. It began briefly, but was then abandoned, in the nineteenth century. Today, diverse theoretical and methodological approaches are being constructed on an ethnographic foundation. The centrality of the San in South African national identity has been recognized.

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Interaction between South-Eastern San and Southern Nguni and Sotho Communities c.1400 to c.1880

Cited by 37 publications

References 9 publications

Prehistoric exchange and interaction in southeastern southern africa: Marine shells and ostrich eggshell

Prehistoric exchange and interaction in southeastern southern africa: Marine shells and ostrich eggshell

Kinship, Marriage, and the Genetics of Past Human Dispersals

The Evolution of Theory, Method and Technique in Southern African Rock Art Research

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