dc.contributor.author |
Antonites, Alexander
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dc.date.accessioned |
2016-12-14T08:29:44Z |
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dc.date.available |
2016-12-14T08:29:44Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2014 |
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dc.description.abstract |
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 in the Shashe-Limpopo
Confluence Area around the important site of Mapungubwe. The spatial location of
Mutamba on the apparent political and economic periphery of Mapungubwe means that it
is well suited to investigate patterns of distribution between centres of political influence
and their larger hinterlands. It is proposed that trade goods followed variable patterns of
distribution and consumption shaped by patterns in taste preference. In addition, this study
suggests that, far from being deprived of trade goods, hinterland communities actively
participated in regional networks of trade and exchange. |
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dc.description.department |
Anthropology and Archaeology |
en_ZA |
dc.description.librarian |
hb2016 |
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dc.description.sponsorship |
The National Science Foundation [grant number 1058306], the MacMillan Centre for International and Area Studies
at Yale, Yale University Council for Archaeological Studies and the University of Pretoria. |
en_ZA |
dc.description.uri |
http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/raza20 |
en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation |
Alexander Antonites (2014) Glass beads from Mutamba: patterns of
consumption in thirteenth-century southern Africa, Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 49:3, 411-428, DOI: 10.1080/0067270X.2014.959316. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0067-270X (print) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1945-5534 (online) |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.1080/0067270X.2014.959316 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/58399 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
en_ZA |
dc.publisher |
Routledge |
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dc.rights |
© 2014 Taylor and Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in Azania, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 411-428, 2014. doi : 10.1080/0067270X.2014.959316. Azania is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.comloi/raza20. |
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dc.subject |
Glass beads |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
Mapungubwe |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
Trade |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
Periphery |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
Hinterland |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
Political economy |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
Social complexity |
en_ZA |
dc.title |
Glass beads from Mutamba : patterns of consumption in thirteenth-century southern Africa |
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dc.type |
Postprint Article |
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