The Manaledi Clay Mine: a ca. 1500 Year-Long Record of Potting from a Single Clay Source in the Tswapong Hills, Eastern Botswana

Abstract Current potters in Manaledi village in the Tswapong Hills of Botswana aver that they and their ancestors for five generations have made pottery exclusively with clay from nearby sources. We begin with an examination of Manaledi and its clay mine to uncover current dialectics between village...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of African archaeology 2019-12, Vol.17 (2), p.121-149
Hauptverfasser: Wilmsen, Edwin N, Griffiths, Anne, Killick, David, Thebe, Phenyo
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Sprache:eng
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