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Moxomatsi Bokoni archaeological site, Button Farm

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The proposal is to conduct research and excavate site Mx 3, Moxomatsi, on Button Farm, located in Mpumalanga. The site will be mapped however, the aim of the project is to find material culture such as ceramic shards, grindstones, (if found)bones, and soil sample analysis. All data found and logged at the site will be used to gain a greater understanding of Moxomatsi, a site that has rarely been researched in the past.

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The understanding gained from the Moxomatsi site will give archaeologists a comparable study to understand Later Iron Age societies in Southern Africa. It will especially expand on research done on the Bokoni occupation sequence. It will try to confirm or deny ethnographic research done by Christiaan Willem Prinsloo. And lastly, it will try to understand interactions between Late Iron Age and farming communities, and Moxomatsi's role in that interaction. It will finally conduct an analysis on the types of crops that they might have cultivated which might open new avenues of research.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2021 - 13:20

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Daniel Albero Santacreu, M. C. T. &. J. G. R., 2016. Formal Analysis and Typological Classification in the Study of Ancient Pottery. In: A. Hunt, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-22. Evers, M. E. M. &. T. M., 1976. Iron Age Settlement and Soil Erosion in the Eastern Transvaal, South Africa. The South African Archaeological Bulletin, 31(123/124), pp. 153-165. Feder, K. L., 2009. Data Preservation: Recording and Collecting. In: Field Methods in Archaeology. s.l.:Routledge, pp. 113-142. Hester, T. R., 2009. Methods of excavation. In: Field Methods in Archaeology. s.l.:Routledge, pp. 69-112. Huffman, T. N., 1989. Settlements and Late Iron Age Migrations. The African Archaeological Review, Volume 7, pp. 155-182. Huffman, T. N., 2015. Mapela, Mapungubwe and the Origins of States in Southern Africa. The Southern African Archaeological Bulletin, 70(201), pp. 15-27. Masolo, A., 2020. The Archaeology of Moxomatsi, A 17th Century Bokoni Capital, Mpumalanga, South Africa, Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand. Mats Widgren, T. M. A. P. J. R. M. H. S. &. L.-O. W., 2016. Precolonial Agricultural Terracing in Bokoni, South Africa: Typology and an Exploratory Excavation. Journal of African Archaeology, 14(1), pp. 33-53. Montana, G., 2016. Ceramic Raw Materials. In: A. Hunt, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-23. Peter Delius, T. M. &. M. S., 2012. Bokoni: Old Structures, New Paradigmes? Rethinking Pre-colonial Society from the Perspective of the Stone-Walled Sites in Mpumalanga. Journal of Southern African Studies, 38(2), pp. 399-414. Schirmer, P. D. &. S., 2014. Order, Openness, and Economic Change in Precolonial Southern Africa: A Perspective from the Bokoni Terraces. The Journal of African History, 55(1), pp. 37-54.
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