The Iron Age of the Makapan Valley area, central Transvaal
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2015-02-24
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Moore, Martyn Patrick John
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Abstract
A culture-history research project was initiated for the
relatively unresearched Makapan Valley area of the central
Transvaal. The valley was surveyed intensively and fifty sites
recorded. Three, 2429AA4 (Ficus), 2429AA24 (Kekane) and
2429AA36 were excavated. Ficus was a multicomponent site with
four phases of occupation; an initial fifth to sixth century
A.D. Lydenburg phase, a ninth to tenth century Eiland phase,
an ambiguous fifteenth century entity and a superficial early
twentieth century Ndebele occupation. This site sequence
provided the framework for the research area's culture-history.
Site 2429AA24 provided a larger sample of twentieth century
Ndebele pottery. 2429AA36 proved sterile. The sample of
excavated Eiland phase pottery has been significantly increased
by the Ficus material.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Arts, 1981.