Mapungubwe Reconsidered

A Living Legacy – Exploring Beyond the Rise and Decline

by MISTRA

The Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape is one of the
profound treasures of southern Africa’s social and archaeological
history, appropriately declared a World Heritage (Unesco) in 2003.
Contained within this landscape is indispensable information on
precolonial state formation, social hierarchies, architecture of
stone-walled towns, mineral processing and intercontinental trade.

And
yet, the Mapungubwe state rose, towered over its environs, and then
declined – long before European colonial incursions. What exactly were
the social dynamics in this polity? What technologies did it utilise?
How did it relate to neighbouring unable to sustain itself? In this
combined edition of two MISTRA publications, now jointly titled Mapungubwe Reconsidered: A Living Legacy,
MISTRA seeks to contribute to the body of knowledge about Mapungubwe,
straddling such issues as the relationships between humans and the
environment, management of mineral endowments and the form and impact of
southern Africa’s global intercourse in this historical period.

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About the author

MISTRA

The Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) was founded by a group of South Africans with experience in
research, academia, policy-making and governance who saw the need to
create a platform of engagement around strategic issues facing South
Africa. It is an Institute that combines research and academic
development, strategic reflection and intellectual discourse. It applies
itself to issues such as economics, sociology, history, arts and
culture and the logics of natural sciences.

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