Evidence for indigenous strip-drawing in production of wire at Mapungubwe Hill (1220-1290 AD) : towards an interdisciplinary approach

dc.contributor.authorKoleini, Farahnaz
dc.contributor.authorSchoeman, M.H. Alex
dc.contributor.authorPikirayi, Innocent
dc.contributor.authorChirikure, Shadreck
dc.contributor.emailinnocent.pikirayi@up.ac.za.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-13T07:26:16Z
dc.date.available2012-02-13T07:26:16Z
dc.date.issued2012-03
dc.description.abstractSeveral cupreous conical tubes with unclear function are among some of the finds in the collections held at the University of Pretoria which were unearthed by archaeologists on Mapungubwe Hill. Most of these are poorly provenanced, particularly those connected with the activities of Guy Gardner (1935-1940) regarding the waste in northern dump. However, a redetermination of the context following the excavations of the 1970s suggests the funnels date to the period of the rise and development of Mapungubwe as a town and centre of a powerful state. The results from neutron tomography, stereomicroscope and SEM-EDS indicate that the tubes were most probably used in iron strip-drawing to produce wire.en_US
dc.description.librariancp2012en
dc.description.urihttp://www.elsevier.com/locate/jasen_US
dc.identifier.citationKoleini, F, Schoeman, MHA, Pikirayi, I & Chirikure, S 2012, 'Evidence for indigenous strip-drawing in production of wire at Mapungubwe Hill (1220-1290 AD) : towards an interdisciplinary approach', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 757-762.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0305-4403 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1095-9238 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1016/j.jas.2011.11.012
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/18100
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rights© 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.en_US
dc.subjectConical tubeen_US
dc.subjectStrip-drawingen_US
dc.subjectNeutron tomographyen_US
dc.subjectMapungubween_US
dc.subject.lcshMapungubwe Site (South Africa)en
dc.subject.lcshIron tubesen
dc.subject.lcshIronwork -- Mapungubwe Site (South Africa)en
dc.subject.lcshWiredrawingen
dc.titleEvidence for indigenous strip-drawing in production of wire at Mapungubwe Hill (1220-1290 AD) : towards an interdisciplinary approachen_US
dc.typePostprint Articleen_US

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