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dc.contributor.author Kinahan Jill en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2013-07-02T14:10:19Z
dc.date.available 2013-07-02T14:10:19Z
dc.date.issued 2000 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/11070.1/4243
dc.description.abstract Abstract taken from published version: en_US
dc.description.abstract Early contacts between indigenous pastoralists at Walvis Bay on the Namib Coast and Western seafarers are poorly documented and little understood. Trade augmented regional exchange networks with a range of archaeologically visible and easily identifiable objects. In this thesis I use a parallel classification and seriation of glass beads and imported ceramics to develop relative dating techniques. The sequence identifies three phases of social and economic change. Until the nineteenth century, wealthy pastoralists controlled external trade and the circulation of goods inland. By the mid nineteenth century, British merchants had set up commercial operations at Walvis Bay and the regional network had broken down. Archaeological and documentary evidence agree that by the end of the nineteenth century, indigenous pastoralism at Walvis Bay had collapsed, and the people were dependent upon wage-labour, charity and scavenging. Techniques developed here use trade goods to provide high resolution dating" and other archaeological evidence to shed new light on the indigenous response to contact. These methods may be applicable to similar situations of contact arising from the global spread of Western commerce en_US
dc.format.extent xii, 119, p en_US
dc.format.extent ill., maps en_US
dc.format.extent 29 cm en_US
dc.language.iso eng en_US
dc.subject Historical archaelogy - namibia en_US
dc.subject Glass beads - namibia en_US
dc.subject Commercial ceramics - namibia en_US
dc.subject Namib coast en_US
dc.subject Indigenous pastoralists - namibia en_US
dc.title Cattle for beads en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
dc.identifier.isis F070-200205140009275 en_US
dc.description.degree Uppsala en_US
dc.description.degree Uppsala University en_US
dc.description.degree Ph D en_US
dc.masterFileNumber 2570 en_US


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