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Browsing Research Articles (Anthropology, Archaeology and Development Studies) by Author "Antonites, Alexander"
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Antonites, Alexander
(South African Archaeological Society, 2013)
Baleni is a mineral spring in the South African Lowveld where radiocarbon
and ceramic evidence indicates a 2000-year salt-production
record. Excavations have found that episodic production during this
period closely ...
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Joubert, Michelle; Antonites, Alexander; Ashley, Ceri Z.
(South African Society for Cultural History, 2021-12-01)
Narratives about South African industrialisation, especially regarding the mining sector, have not paid adequate attention to small scale (artisanal) mining operations and the communities who worked them. This article ...
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Antonites, Alexander; Uys, S.; Antonites, A.R. (Annie)
(Transvaal Museum, 2016)
This research presents an interpretation of the faunal remains from MNR 74, a small 13th century AD settlement
located in the Limpopo Valley, east of Musina in South Africa. Archaeological excavations undertaken in 2013 ...
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Antonites, Alexander
(Springer, 2019-03)
The Middle Iron Age (MIA) of southern Africa is a period characterized by increased social complexity centered on the polity of Mapungubwe. This article considers the role that fiber spinning played in the regional political ...
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Forssman, Tim; Antonites, Alexander; Ashley, Ceri Z.; Pentz, Justin; Scott, Karin; Woodborne, Stephan M.
(Routledge, 2024)
In recent decades, interest in the Later Stone Age of the Mapungubwe region has increased. Here, we present the results of an investigation from a shelter downstream from Mapungubwe called Skirbeek. The shelter is in a ...
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Antonites, Alexander
(Routledge, 2014)
Mutamba is a settlement located on the northern slopes of the Soutpansberg in South
Africa. Radiocarbon and material culture suggest contemporaneity with regional
developments of social complexity primarily concentrated ...
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Antonites, Alexander
(KwaZulu-Natal Museum, 2019)
Mutamba is a 13th-century Iron Age settlement located in the Soutpansberg of South Africa and is
contemporary with Mapungubwe, southern Africa’s earliest socially complex polity. This article presents
information on ...
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Antonites, Alexander; Ashley, Ceri Z.; Couto, Ashley; O'Connor, Sonia; Tiley-Nel, Sian Lisa
(South African Archaeological Society, 2022)
Vryheid (MNR04) is a small, isolated Late Iron Age homestead dated
between the 18th and 19th centuries, located in northern South Africa.
During excavations in 2014, a carved ivory artefact was exposed on
the floor of ...
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Antonites, Alexander
(AOSIS, 2024-08-30)
Archaeological research carried out in the Kruger National Park has identified several
settlements of early African farmers that date to the Early Iron Age (EIA) – c. AD 200 – AD
1000. Two large EIA settlements, Le6 and ...
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Steyn, Bianca; Antonites, Alexander
(Routledge, 2019)
Mutamba is a thirteenth-century settlement located on the Soutpansberg Mountains in northern South Africa with links to the regionally important Mapungubwe polity. This paper provides a detailed report of the range and ...
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Antonites, Alexander; Antonites, A.R. (Annie); Kruger, Nelius; Roodt, Frans
(KwaZulu-Natal Museum, 2014-10)
Penge is an Early Iron Age farming settlement in the Sekhukhuneland region of Limpopo Province.
Excavations were conducted in 2005 as part of a mitigation process for the expansion of the Penge town
waterworks. Ceramic ...
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Mouton, Michelle; Antonites, Alexander
(Springer, 2023-02)
The K2-Mapungubwe settlement complex is widely regarded as the centre for the development of class-based society out of earlier ranked communities between c. AD 900 and AD 1300 in northern South Africa, southern Zimbabwe, ...
