Student Number : 8905619P -
PhD thesis -
School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies -
Faculty of Humanities / In this thesis I identify and clarify the archaeological signature of rain-control sites
in the Shashe-Limpopo Confluence Area (SLCA). I use a landscape-based
approach to investigate rain-control in the ideology of SLCA farming
communities. I investigate the archaeology of ritual by viewing rain-control as
materialised ideology. Using this insight, I examine the material culture and
spatial manifestation of rain-control, the transition from ritual to residential sites,
and how these transitions articulated with the ritualised landscape.
Specifically, I explore the local manifestation of rain-control and its relationship
with the ideologies of farming communities in the period leading up to SLCA state
formation, between AD 1000 and AD 1250. I also scrutinize the relationship of
the Leopard’s Kopje elite with hunter-gatherers and other farming people on the
same landscape, as this relationship was partly grounded in ritual and raincontrol.
Furthermore, this thesis explores the ideological roots of the Mapungubwe state.
The ideology manifest in the location of the Mapungubwe royal residential area
germinated during the K2 occupation. In this period rain-control was slowly
removed from nature and located in farmer society. The final step in this course
was nationalising rain-control and locating it on Mapungubwe hill. Initially,
however, rain-controllers resisted this centralisation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/1985 |
| Date | 14 February 2007 |
| Creators | Schoeman, Maria Hendrieka |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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