Further Excavations in the Iron Age Deposits at the Tunnel Site, Gokomere Hill, Southern Rhodesia

1963 ◽  
Vol 18 (72) ◽  
pp. 155 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. R. Robinson ◽  
J. C. Shee ◽  
K. H. Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Southern Rhodesia

The Iron Age of Southern Rhodesia

1966 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Summers
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Southern Rhodesia

The Iron Age Sequence in the Southern Province of Northern Rhodesia

1963 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian M. Fagan
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Southern Province ◽  
Age Sequence ◽  
Southern Rhodesia

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.

Iron Age Cultures in Southern Rhodesia

1951 ◽  
Vol 6 (23) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
A. J. H. G. ◽  
Roger Summers
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Southern Rhodesia

The Southern Rhodesian Iron Age

1961 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Summers
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Near East ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
South Central ◽  
The World ◽  
Southern Rhodesia

The name ‘Iron Age’ has been given to a complex of post-Stone Age cultures in Southern Rhodesia. The cultures themselves vary very considerably but all are characterized by the use of iron for tools and weapons. Unlike the sequences in Europe and the Near East, that of south Central Africa shows no copper or bronze-using stage between the stone and iron-using phases and even the Neolithic seems to be missing from this part of the world.

Interim report on the structures at Howe, Stromness, Orkney

1984 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
S P Carter ◽  
D Haigh ◽  
N R J Neil ◽  
Beverley Smith
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
Complex Series ◽  
Settlement Site ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Iron Working

Summary Excavations at Howe revealed a complex series of settlements which spanned the whole of the Iron Age period and were preceded by two phases of Neolithic activity. A probable stalled cairn was succeeded by a Maes Howe type chambered tomb which was later followed by enclosed settlements of which only scant remains survived. These settlements were replaced by a roundhouse with earth-house, built into the ruins of the chambered tomb. The roundhouse was surrounded by a contemporary defended settlement. Rebuilding led to the development of a broch structure and village. Partial collapse of tower brought about changes in the settlement, andalthougk some houses were maintained as domestic structures, others were rebuilt as iron-working sheds. The construction of smaller buildings and a later Iron Age or Pictish extended farmstead into rubble collapse accompanied a decline in the size of the settlement. The abandonment of the farmstead marked the end of Howe as a settlement site.

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