Iron Age Communities of the Southern Highveld - T.M. ÓC . Maggs

Title- Iron Age Communities of the Southern Highveld

Author- T.M. OC Maggs

Publisher- Published by the Council of the Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, 1976

Description- Hardcover in good condition. Dust Jacket in good condition. Internal contents clean. 326pp. Dimensions 28.7cm x 22cm

Ruins of villages and towns built of stone on the interior plateau of South Africa first became known to the outside world from the reports of explorers in the early nineteenth century. Many of these settlements in what are now the Transvaal and Orange Free State had been destroyed or abandoned as a result of disastrous conflicts of the Difaqane Periode, from about 1820 onwards. Some were still occupied by the Sotho-Tswana peoples while yet others were of such great antiquity that their, builders were long forgotten.
The project described in this book represents the first systematic archeological research on these settlements south of the Vaal River