Rachel King

Fred Morton

Amanda Esterhuysen

Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi

Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu

Muchaparara Musemwa

Cynthia Kros

Helen Ludlow

Geoffrey Blundell

Jan Boeyens

Lize Kriel

Grant McNulty

Hlonipha Mokoena

Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu

Himal Ramji

Justine Wintjes

Archives of Times Past' explores particular sources of evidence on southern Africa's time before the colonial era. It gathers recent ideas about archives and archiving from scholars in southern Africa and elsewhere, focusing on the question: 'How do we know, or think we know, what happened in the times before European colonialism?'0The essays by well-known historians, archaeologists and researchers engage these questions from a range of perspectives and in illuminating ways. Written from personal experience, they capture how these experts encountered their archives of knowledge beyond the textbook.0The essays are written at a time when public discussion about the history of southern Africa before the colonial era is taking place more openly than at any other time in the last hundred years They will appeal to students, academics, educationists, teachers, archivists, and heritage, museum practitioners and the general public.

Conversations about South Africa’s Deep History

Archives of Times Past

Simon Hall

Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA)

David Pearce

Peter Delius

Shadreck Chirikure

Sekibakiba Lekgoathi

Maanda Maulaudzi

Vele Neluvhalani

Otsile Ntsoane

Karim Sadr

Jeanette Smith

The Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape is one of the profound treasures of southern Africa's social and archaeological history, appropriately declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) in 2003. Contained within this landscape is indispensable information on precolonial state formation, social hierarchies, architecture of stone-walled towns, mineral processing and intercontinental trade. And yet, the Mapungubwe state rose, towered over its environs, and then declined – long before European colonial incursions. Mapungubwe Reconsidered: A Living Legacy contributes to the body of knowledge about Mapungubwe, straddling such issues as the relationships between humans and the environment, management of mineral endowments and the form and impact of southern Africa's global intercourse in this historical period.

Exploring Beyond the Rise and Decline of the Mapungubwe State

Mapungubwe Reconsidered: A Living Legacy

Amanda Esterhuysen

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