Settlement hierarchies in the northern Transvaal: Zimbabwe ruins and Venda history

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dc.contributor.authorHuffman, Thomas N.
dc.contributor.authorHanisch, Edwin O.M.
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-22T12:05:43Z
dc.date.available2010-09-22T12:05:43Z
dc.date.issued1986-06
dc.descriptionAfrican Studies Seminar series. Paper presented June, 1986en_US
dc.description.abstractZimbabwe Culture ruins have been recorded over a large part of southern Africa, including Venda and the northern Transvaal. These stone buildings were the political centres of Shona-speaking leaders and the products of an institutionalised bureaucracy based on divine kingship. For over 50 years Africanists have debated the relationship between these Zimbabwe ruins and the Venda, partly because Venda chiefs traditionally lived in stone-walled settlements and partly because the Venda language contains elements of both Shona and Sotho-Tswana.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/8777
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAfrican Studies Institute;ISS 189
dc.subjectIron age. South Africa. Northern Provinceen_US
dc.subjectArchaeology. South Africa. Northern Provinceen_US
dc.subjectVenda (African people)en_US
dc.subjectNorthern Province (South Africa). Antiquitiesen_US
dc.titleSettlement hierarchies in the northern Transvaal: Zimbabwe ruins and Venda historyen_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US
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