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- Title
The stylistic origin of Bambata and the spread of mixed farming in southern Africa.
- Authors
Huffman, Thomas N.
- Abstract
Bambata pottery, and its role in the spread of food production, requires two explanations. The style probably originated somewhere in Angola, among farming communities which belonged to the KALUNDU TRADITION, but it first spread into south-eastern Africa with hunter-gatherer groups at about AD 200. Only later, at about AD 350, were the Bantu-speaking, mixed farming communities, responsible for the style, present in eastern Botswana and western Zimbabwe.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; HISTORY of pottery; CERAMICS; FOOD supply; AGRICULTURAL education; IRON Age; HUNTER-gatherer societies; BANTU languages; ARCHAEOLOGICAL research
- Publication
Southern African Humanities, 2005, Vol 17, p57
- ISSN
1681-5564
- Publication type
Article