Mike Main
Autor von Palaces of Stone: Uncovering ancient southern African kingdoms
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Mike Main has spent over 40 years exploring Botswana and its neighbours. A management consultant, freelance writer and lay archaeologist, he lives in Gaborone, Botswana. Tom Huffman is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at the University of Wttwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is a leading authority on mehr anzeigen precolonial farming societies in southern Africa and the author of multiple research papers and highly acclaimed books on the subject. weniger anzeigen
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Palaces of Stone: Uncovering ancient southern… von Mike Main
Wonderful photos and helpful illustrations, written with care and clarity, and so much more accessible than Huffman’s tome on the Iron Age, but a deeply frustrating reading experience. This is because so little is retrieved of the people behind the stones - their identity, their stories, their culture. We know much more about Assyrians 4,000 years ago than these African societies 400 years ago - and much of that is from the Portuguese, who built the first christian church in Zimbabwe in 1560 at Luanze in Mashonaland East.… (mehr)
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