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The Iron Age Sequence in the Southern Province of Northern Rhodesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

Brian M. Fagan
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Abstract

The Iron Age cultures of Northern Rhodesia have until fairly recently remained unknown, whilst work in Southern Rhodesia and in South Africa has revealed a long sequence in both those territories. Mr R. R. Inskeep undertook some excavations in 1958, and since 1959 Iron Age research has expanded considerably. Work has been concentrated in the Southern Province of the territory with the aid of a grant from the Nuffield Foundation, and a number of large scale excavations have been carried out. This paper gives an outline of our general conclusions as they appeared at the completion of the fieldwork.

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The Journal of African History , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , July 1963 , pp. 157 - 177
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1963

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2 This paper was submitted to an African History Seminar at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in Oct. 1962. I am grateful to Dr Roland Oliver for his assistance in the preparation of this paper, and to the participants in that Seminar for their valuable comments and discussion. Grateful thanks are also due to the Nuffield Foundation for their generous grant to support our research programme.

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