Southern African Worlds: Rivers, Stone Cities, and Living Heritage
Southern Africa; selected Botswana context · Profil avec revue des sources

Bosutswe: households, production, and Kalahari-margin connections

No ancient self-designation is inferred from this research label or modern place name.

Bosutswe: households, production, and Kalahari-margin connections brings excavated chronology, economic remains, satellite models and pottery petrography into a local historical context. The 2008 excavations document a sequence across approximately 700–1700 CE, challenging a simple regional drought-abandonment narrative. Changing concentrations of production and exchange do not prove one unchanged centralized state or an ethnic monopoly.

Production and long-lived settlement context Approximately 700–1700 CE in the excavated sequence Excavated chronology, economic remains, satellite models and pottery petrography Serowe, Botswana: approximate public-town orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, private compound or production-work location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty or route boundary. No access, collecting or travel permission is implied.
Aperçu

Foyers, paysages, travail et éléments probants

Costas, fleuves, champs et connexions régionales

Serowe is a modern orientation for this selected context, not an ancient capital designation or boundary. Changing concentrations of production and exchange do not prove one unchanged centralized state or an ethnic monopoly.

Organisation politique et échelle communautaire

Changing concentrations of production and exchange do not prove one unchanged centralized state or an ethnic monopoly.

Transformation ultérieure, patrimoine vivant et réception moderne

Living communities and heritage institutions retain their own authority; the atlas cannot establish identity, ancestry, descent or membership. Petrography identifies material connections, not a potter's language, ethnicity or every person's birthplace. Later research, restoration and heritage events are dated separately in the timeline.

Long sequence The 2008 excavations document a sequence across approximately 700–1700 CE, challenging a simple regional drought-abandonment narrative.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered research, not author or community endorsement. Retain the stated chronological, sample and interpretive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Landscape methods Predictive modeling uses multispectral imagery to investigate possible archaeological landscapes, not draw certain ancient borders.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered research, not author or community endorsement. Retain the stated chronological, sample and interpretive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S2]
Pottery connections Petrographic research investigates exchange and alliances through pottery materials, not automatic population replacement.

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Source review: 2026-10-20 [S3]
Séquence historique

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

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  1. Settlement sequence

    Occupation and economic changes require local chronology.

    [S1]

  2. Testing abandonment narratives

    Evidence challenges a blanket account of regional desertion caused by drought.

    [S1]

  3. Excavation campaign

    Fieldwork supplied material for the 2008 chronology and economic analysis.

    [S1]

  4. Remote-sensing models

    Satellite-based models help frame field questions, not certify borders or every settlement.

    [S2]

  5. Pottery study

    Petrographic research addressed relationships among eastern Botswana communities.

    [S3]
Culture et langue

Alimentation, artisanat, travail, croyances et travail colectivo

Langues mentionnées dans ce profil

  • Petrography identifies material connections, not a potter's language, ethnicity or every person's birthplace.

Famille linguistique: Language, archaeological style, political allegiance and residence are distinct; the selected evidence does not classify every resident.

Research focus: Excavated chronology, economic remains, satellite models and pottery petrography.

Changing concentrations of production and exchange do not prove one unchanged centralized state or an ethnic monopoly.

Petrography identifies material connections, not a potter's language, ethnicity or every person's birthplace.

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  1. C1

    Archaeological excavations at Bosutswe, Botswana: cultural chronology, paleo-ecology and economy

    Denbow and colleagues; Journal of Archaeological Science · Original research or institutional account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2008

  2. C2

    Herders and foragers on Kasteelberg: Interim report of excavations 1999–2002

    Sadr, Smith, Plug, Orton and Mutti; South African Archaeological Bulletin · Original research or institutional account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2003

  3. C3

    Revisiting Kalundu Mound, Zambia: Implications for the Timing of Social and Subsistence Transitions in Iron Age Southern Africa

    Goldstein and colleagues; African Archaeological Review · Original research or institutional account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2021

  4. C4

    Central Region, Gweru

    National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe · Original research or institutional account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated record; consulted 2026-10-20

  5. C5

    Trade and society on the south-east African coast in the later first millennium AD: the case of Chibuene

    Sinclair, Ekblom and Wood; Antiquity 86 · Original research or institutional account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2012

  6. C6

    Matobo Hills, Zimbabwe

    British Museum African Rock Art project · Original research or institutional account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated record; consulted 2026-10-20

  7. C7

    Conservation of Archaeological Daga (Adobe) Structures, Domboshaba National Monument, Botswana

    Terra 2008 proceedings; Getty Conservation Institute · Conservation case study within conference proceedings · 2011

  8. C8

    How pots, sand and stone walls helped us date an ancient SA settlement

    Ruby-Anne Birin, Alex Schoeman and Mary Evans; University of the Witwatersrand · Original research or institutional account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2021-05-28

  9. S1

    Archaeological excavations at Bosutswe, Botswana: cultural chronology, paleo-ecology and economy

    Denbow and colleagues; Journal of Archaeological Science · Original research or institutional account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2008

  10. S2

    Toward archaeological predictive modeling in the Bosutswe region of Botswana: Utilizing multispectral satellite imagery to conceptualize ancient landscapes

    Original research; Journal of Anthropological Archaeology · Original research or institutional account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated record; consulted 2026-10-20

  11. S3

    Keeping up alliances: multifaceted values of pottery in eighth- to seventeenth-century eastern Botswana as reconstructed by optical petrography

    Wilmsen, Killick, Denbow, Daggett and Thebe; University of Arizona research record · Original research or institutional account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2019

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Revisión editorial: 20 octobre 2026

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