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Simon Hall is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at UCT. His Masters thesis (University of the Witwatersrand) dealt with Tswana speaking farmers in Limpopo Province and his doctorate (University of Stellenbosch), examined aspects of the Holocene hunter-gatherer sequence in the Eastern Cape. His research interests range across the archaeology of both Hunter gatherers and farmers in southern Africa, and as a result, has research interests in both fields. He examines interactions between hunter-gatherers and mixed farmers over the last 2000 years, when mixed farming was first introduced to southern Africa. |
Simon Hall
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Another, and the current major current focus, is collaborative
research on the origins of the Tswana town. He and colleagues are interested
in the political economy between the 17th and early 19th centuries when
Tswana-speakers in North-West Province underwent a significant shift towards
aggregated, semi-urban settlement patterns. This period encourages a
multi-source approach that combines material culture and ethnographic, oral
and written evidence and the specific goals range from understanding changes
in symbolic systems to specialist analyses of ceramic and metal technology
and agricultural ecology. |
