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Foragers in the middle Limpopo Valley: trade, place-making, and social complexity, written by Tim Forssman

Foragers in the middle Limpopo Valley: trade, place-making, and social complexity, written by Tim... Tim Forssman, Foragers in the middle Limpopo Valley: trade, place-making, and social complexity. Oxford, Archaeopress, 2020, 140 pp., ISBN 978-1789-69685-1 (paperback).The emergence of social complexity among hunter- gatherers is a recurrent topic in the archaeological literature. Beginning in the 1960s, traditional perspectives of forager societies as straightforward egalitarian groups have evolved to dichotomous concepts (simple vs. complex). More recently, these perspectives have changed to include the existence of a multiplicity of states, with cross-cutting classifications, such as economic complexity, technological complexity, social complexity, and symbolic complexity being established (Zvelebil, 1998). While the debate on complex foragers is well advanced in some parts of the world, southern Africa still lacks an articulated approach to explore and discuss the presence of forager complexity before and during the emergence of farming and state-level societies. The dearth of ethnographic data related to complex foragers communities (Price and Brown, 1985) and the traditional focus on coastal adaptions as a prime catalyst for complex behavior development are probably some of the reasons for this absence in southern Africa and elsewhere.Tim Forssman’s book takes a significant step in filling this gap by exploring the evidence of increasing social complexity among the forager communities that inhabited the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of African Archaeology Brill

Foragers in the middle Limpopo Valley: trade, place-making, and social complexity, written by Tim Forssman

Cascalheira, João
Journal of African Archaeology , Volume 19 (2): 2 – Jun 25, 2021
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Tim Forssman, Foragers in the middle Limpopo Valley: trade, place-making, and social complexity. Oxford, Archaeopress, 2020, 140 pp., ISBN 978-1789-69685-1 (paperback).The emergence of social complexity among hunter- gatherers is a recurrent topic in the archaeological literature. Beginning in the 1960s, traditional perspectives of forager societies as straightforward egalitarian groups have evolved to dichotomous concepts (simple vs. complex). More recently, these perspectives have changed to include the existence of a multiplicity of states, with cross-cutting classifications, such as economic complexity, technological complexity, social complexity, and symbolic complexity being established (Zvelebil, 1998). While the debate on complex foragers is well advanced in some parts of the world, southern Africa still lacks an articulated approach to explore and discuss the presence of forager complexity before and during the emergence of farming and state-level societies. The dearth of ethnographic data related to complex foragers communities (Price and Brown, 1985) and the traditional focus on coastal adaptions as a prime catalyst for complex behavior development are probably some of the reasons for this absence in southern Africa and elsewhere.Tim Forssman’s book takes a significant step in filling this gap by exploring the evidence of increasing social complexity among the forager communities that inhabited the

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