T. M. O'C. Maggs’s scientific contributions

... Only one farming implement, a hoe, was found, although the two axes/adzes could also have been used in agricultural or other maintenance activities. The rarity of hoes in the compounds may mean that such tools were kept in field huts rather than in the main settlement, or that iron was too rare to use for such tools as suggested by Maggs (1976a). Indeed, most agricultural/maintenance tools may have been in use outside the houses when the site was attacked and so would not be encountered in the excavations. ...

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Diving into the collections: Analysing two excavated Sotho-Tswana compounds in the Suikerbosrand, Gauteng Province

... Southern Africa is one of the world's richest rock art regions. It is rich not only because of its abundant painted and engraved hunter-gatherer rock art sites, 1 but also because of the wealth of historical and ethnographic sources that allow fine-grained studies of the detailed imagery (e.g., Vinnicombe 1976;Lewis-Williams 1977Deacon 1998;Parkington 2002Parkington , 2003aEastwood and Eastwood 2006). It is not the case, however, that productive research inevitably follows from this wealth of resources. ...

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A Performance-Theory Revisit of the Conflict Scene at the Ventershoek (2927CA1) Rock Art Site