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The Bushmen in prehistory
Bushmen : San hunters and herders of southern Africa • Cape Town And Pretoria • Published In 1978 • Pages: 33-56
By: Inskeep, Ray R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Inskeep describes the early history of the San in southern Africa from the prehistoric period to approximately the 1700s. The text covers the European contact period, and what is known of the early ancestors of the San. Archaeology and historical reconstruction are combined in this study to give the reader a general picture of early San culture history.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Prehistory
- Historical reconstruction
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- San
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- prehistory-1700s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southern Africa
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ray R. Inskeep
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79302323
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)