An Archaeology Of Colonial Identity: Power And Material Culture In The Dwars Valley, South Africa
by Gavin Lucas /
2004 / English / PDF
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Globalism is not solely a contemporary phenomenon but has an important history as archaeologists routinely demonstrate by unearthing traces of this process at numerous sites around the world. For example, 18th century Chinese pottery has been found from the Netherlands to North America, and from South Africa to Iceland. Not only does this international dispersal of material culture demonstrate an emergent global network of commodities, it also gives an insight into the people who defined themselves by such possessions. It is this material culture in the form of buildings and broken objects, which provide an alternative perspective from the textual and visual sources at our disposal.
