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- Badenhorst, Shaw, et al.
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Faunal remains from Chibuene, an Iron Age coastal trading station in central Mozambique
- 2011
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Ingår i: Southern African Humanities. - Pietermaritzburg, South Africa : KwaZulu-Natal Museum. - 1681-5564. ; 23, s. 1-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We report on the small faunal assemblage from the Iron Age coastal trading station of Chibuene, situated on the coastal littoral of central Mozambique. The faunal assemblage was excavated in 1995 and contains bones from a variety of animals, including livestock, chickens, wild game animals, as well as aquatic species such as turtles and fish. Fish, turtle and shark remains dominate the assemblage. The fauna from the first and second millennium AD occupations share similarities with other contemporaneous sites to the north on the East African coast, rather than with sites located in South Africa.
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- Macamo, Solange L., et al.
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The Manyikeni and Chibuene Archaeological Sites, Mozambique : Prospects for their Conservation and Management
- 2023
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Ingår i: Other landscapes of cultural heritage(s). - Coimbra : Coimbra University Press. - 9789892623320 - 9789892623313 ; , s. 319-339
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The paper outlines the history of research and heritage management of Manyikeni (a Zimbabwe tradition site dated 1200-1700 AD) and the trading station of Chibuene (dated from 400-present). Both sites are located in the District of Vilankulos, in Inhambane Province of Southern Mozambique. Archaeological work has been conducted at both sites since the 1970s with significant participation of local residents and researchers from Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo and external researchers. The paper discusses heritage measures for these two sites including also a newly reported stone enclosure (Zimbabwe) of Ngomene, in Vilankulos, c.56.7km south of Chibuene. We also discuss the heritage and cultural tourism potential of the area in terms of proximity to the marine national park of Bazaruto, for a sustainable heritage conservation program in the wider processes of socio-economic development. We use the Urban Historic Landscape, or HUL approach associated with the notion of the living heritage to meet community needs. This is reinforced by the recently adopted marine cultural heritage approach of the Rising from the Depths Network in Eastern Africa, aiming to benefit communities, living specifically on the coast.The paper argues for an integrated biocultural heritage approach for sustainable conservation through the establishment of “Archaeological Parks” and exemplifies efforts towards these goals on the sites and the possibilities for such an endeavor in the current national cultural and natural legislation.
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- Matenga, Edward, 1963-
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The Soapstone Birds of Great Zimbabwe : Archaeological Heritage, Religion and Politics in Postcolonial Zimbabwe and the Return of Cultural Property
- 2011
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- At least eight soapstone carvings of birds furnished a shrine, Great Zimbabwe, in the 19th century. This large stonewalled settlement, once a political and urban centre, had been much reduced for four centuries, although the shrine continued to operate as local traditions dictated. The Zimbabwe Birds were handed down from a past that has only been partially illuminated by archaeological inquiry and ethnography, as has the site as such. This thesis publishes the first detailed catalogue of the Birds and attempts to reconstruct their provenance at the site based on the earliest written accounts.A modern history of the Birds unfolds when the European settlers removed them from the site in dubious transactions, claiming them as rewards of imperial conquest. As the most treasured objects from Great Zimbabwe, the fate of the Birds has been intertwined with that of the site in a matrix of contested meanings and ownership. This thesis explores how the meanings of cultural objects have a tendency to shift and to be ephemeral, demonstrating the ability of those in power to appropriate and determine such meanings. In turn, this has a bearing on ownership claims, and gives rise to an “authorized heritage discourse” syndrome. The forced migrations of the Zimbabwe Birds within the African continent and to Europe and their subsequent return to their homeland decades later are characterised by melodramatic episodes of manoeuvring by traders, politicians and theologians, and of the return of stolen property cloaked as an amicable barter deal, or a return extolled as an act of generosity. International doctrines that urge the return of cultural property are influenced by Western hegemonic ideologies. Natural justice is perverted, as stolen property acquires a (superior) significance in its new context, which merits the extinction of the original provenance. This leaves “generosity” and goodwill as the promises of the future, holding the fate of one Zimbabwe Bird still kept in exile in South Africa.
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- Sinclair, Paul, 1949-, et al.
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Historical Ecology and the Longue Durée
- 2018
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Ingår i: Issues and Concepts in Historical Ecology. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. - 9781108420983 - 9781108355780 ; , s. 13-40
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)
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- Sinclair, Paul, 1949-
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Staden som idé och tanke
- 2012
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Ingår i: Miljöhistorier: Personliga, lokala, globala berättelser om dåtid, nutid och framtid.. - Uppsala : CSD Uppsala och Institution för arkeologi och antik historia, Uppsala universitet. - 9789150623208 ; , s. 37-44
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Städer ingår i det mänskliga tänkandet, de bebyggs, utvecklas och överges som ett resultat av mänskliga beslut och handlingar. Vi blir alltmer medvetna om samspelet mellan tanke och handling och miljön både på lokal och regional skala. Ibland låser stadsplanering, befolkningstryck och ekonomi in stadens invånare i beteenden och skeenden som gör att den ekologiska kapaciteten i staden och dess omland överskrids. Men det är tranformation snarare än kollaps som står i fokus i våra studier. Städer flyttas eller ombildas, dess organisation och funktion förändras och dess befolkning är ofta blandad med stor ekonomisk, social och kulturell mångfald. Det råder föga tvivel i våra sinnen att städers hållbarhetsproblematik är central när det gäller att bemöta de mångfacetterade och allvarliga globala förändringar som vi alla står inför i dag. En ofta citerad men högst relevant iakttagelse är att mer än hälften av världens befolkning nu bor i städer. Städer utgör på så sätt både ursprunget till och samtidigt den potentiella lösningen på de hållbarhetsproblem vi ser idag.
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- Sinclair, Paul, 1949-
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Towards an Understanding of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics at Great Zimbabwe : Contributions of the Urban Origins in Eastern and Southern Africa Programme
- 2019
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Ingår i: Acta Archaeologica. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0065-101X .- 1600-0390. ; 90:1, s. 123-134
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 1987 archaeologists from nine African countries and colleagues from Sweden began a co-operation programme to study urbanism in eastern and southern Africa under the auspices of The Urban Origins programme. The programme involved 22 parallel field projects throughout the West Indian Ocean region and the southern Africa interior. The article presents a compilation of diverse material on Great Zimbabwe that has been scattered in different fora. The research was directed by an overall approach that investigations in urban archaeology in Africa must be at the same scale that people lived in the past. The results briefly presented here show the potential of multivariate assessments of the spatial distributions of large-scale urban sites in Africa.
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- Sinclair, Paul, 1949-, et al.
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Trade and society on the south-east African coast in the later first millennium AD : the case of Chibuene
- 2012
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Ingår i: Antiquity. - 0003-598X .- 1745-1744. ; 86:333, s. 723-737
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The south-east coast of Africa in the later first millennium was busy with boats and the movement of goods from across the Indian Ocean to the interior. The landing places were crucial mediators in this process, in Africa as elsewhere. Investigations at the beach site of Chibuene show that a local community was supplying imported beads to such interior sites as Schroda, with the consequent emergence there of hierarchical power structures.
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