- Title
- Revisiting nomenclature: 'Early Iron Age', 'First-Millennium Agriculturist', or what?
- Creator
- Steele, John
- Date Issued
- 2001
- Date
- 2001
- Type
- text
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/934
- Identifier
- vital:30067
- Description
- As an art historian who has recently become fascinated by First-Millennium Agriculturist ceramics, I have come across several attempts at dealing with an issue of appropriate nomenclature for desigrrating this era. Conceptual frameworks are articulated using words, yet an apparent discomfort with the term Early Iron Age has seemingly not led to a consistently used altemative. I have been wondering about this and, with respect, offer my thoughts on the matter in a hope that debate will be furthered. Hereunder I utilise aspects of the KwaZulu-Natal and Eastem Cape first millennium ceramic sequence to address some significances associated with such artefacts in interpretations of the past, and then discuss some ways in which ideas of particular social contexts are embedded in language. Thereafter introduction of the term Iron Age into South African archaeology is referred to with reference to past and current usage, and advantages/disadvantages of alternatives are suggested.
- Format
- 10 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Southern African Field Archaeology
- Relation
- Steele J. (2001) Revisiting nomenclature: 'Early Iron Age', 'First-Millennium Agriculturist', or what?: Southern African Field Archaeology.10:35-45.
- Relation
- Southern African Field Archaeology https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/212762#page/37/mode/1up 10 vol. 35 45 2001 1019-5785
- Rights
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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