Cognitive studies of the iron age in Southern Africa
- 1 June 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in World Archaeology
- Vol. 18 (1) , 84-95
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.1986.9979990
Abstract
Cognitive Archaeology concentrates on the physical manifestation of the ideals, values and beliefs of past societies. Appropriate models are developed largely from ethnographic data and then applied to the archaeological record. Using this approach, two models have so far been developed for the Iron Age in Southern Africa: one determines political hierarchies and the other cosmologies. Cognitive models such as these help provide an integrated description of Iron Age societies, and they are necessary for an explanation of significant cultural change.Keywords
This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
- Buffelshoek: An Ethnoarchaeological Consideration of a Late Iron Age Settlement in the Southern TransvaalThe South African Archaeological Bulletin, 1985
- Expressive Space in the Zimbabwe CultureMan, 1984
- Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the African Iron AgeAnnual Review of Anthropology, 1982
- The Economic and Social Context of Southern San Rock Art [and Comments and Reply]Current Anthropology, 1982
- Symbolic dimensions of the Southern Bantu homesteadAfrica, 1980
- The Size and Layout of Mgungundlovu 1829-1838Goodwin Series, 1979
- Pastoralism and ZimbabweThe Journal of African History, 1978
- Iron Age Research in the Western Transvaal, South Africa, 1971-72Current Anthropology, 1973
- Bilobial Dwellings: A Persistent Feature of Southern Tswana SettlementsGoodwin Series, 1972
- Sotho Cattle-KraalsThe South African Archaeological Bulletin, 1958