1968 Journal article Legacy File

The Origins and Development of Agriculture in East and Southern Africa

Primary Investigators / Authors

David Seddon

Document Abstract / Summary Overview

Only in Rhodesia has systematic archaeological investigation of \"protohistoric\" sites been carried out for any appreciable length of time (cf. Summers 1966:463); in other regions investigations have been few or have begun only in the last decade (Fagan 1966a:453; Robinson 1966a: 1 71), while in some areas work can hardly be said to have started even now (Oliver 1966:374). This situation, however, is changing fast (cf. Fagan 1967a: 10 and passim), and a general pattern is now emerging as a result of adequate dating of excavated material in con- junction with analysis of botanical, ethnographic, and linguistic evidence (cf. Fagan 1961 a, 1963a, 1965a; Deacon 1966:50-66; Phillipson 1965a). In attempting to construct this pattern, the prehistorian depends on three different kinds of evidence: (a) direct archaeological evidence-the remains of domesticated plants (in the form of pollen, seeds, or macroscopic remains) in context; (b) indirect evidence-all other material discovered in an archaeological context that, by its nature, suggests the presence of agriculture and a food- producing economy; (c) evidence provided by botanical, ethnographic, and linguistic studies. J. DAVID SEDDON was born in London in 1943 and took his first degree in Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge in 1964. [Note: this record was scraped from an archived (Wayback Machine) copy of the original site, which had stored the complete article text rather than just the abstract. It has been trimmed to an excerpt here; the full paper is available via the source link on this record.]

Technical Properties

Accession ID: Current Anthropology, Vol. 9, No. 5, Part 2 (Dec., 1968)
Archival Collection: UKZN-IKS
Language Registry: English
Asset Extent / Duration: 22 pages
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Rights Management Attribution: Jstor
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Taxonomy Classifications

🏷️ Journal article 🏷️ Document 🏷️ English 🏷️ UKZN-IKS 🏷️ South Africa 🏷️ Africa 🏷️ agriculture 🏷️ Jstor 🏷️ David Seddon

Subject Keywords

# Africa , agriculture , Development. Origins

Geographic Spatial Coverage

📍 AFRICA
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