For anthropologists and archaeologists, the study of cultural change is greatest challenge. Initially, subject was considered from perspectives that included too few variables, resulting in an approximation proved to be incomplete inadequate. Since end last century, important efforts have been made document a broader context, revealing variability processes involved. These new studies highlight...

Human skeletal remains offers the most direct insight into the health, well-being, and the lifestyles of both past and modern populations, as well as the study of violence and traumas encountered both from archaeological and forensic contexts. They also allow archaeologists and anthropologists to reconstruction demographic details, none more so than those of children, where mortality rates were...

In this historiographical article we analyse the three sources from which historians obtain their material for research of Bahurutshe (a subgroup Sotho-Tswana South Africa) in precolonial era: oral tradition, archaeological studies Iron Age sites, and oldest written accounts by European visitors to Marico. We show that because Batswana were non-literate societies before nineteenth century, stud...