Thomas Huffman

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Thomas N. Huffman is an archaeologist at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa specializing in the Iron Age of Southern Africa.^[1] Huffman's research on Bantu agro-pastoralist society and his interpretations of the archaeology of Great Zimbabwe has sparked much debate,^[2] Huffman often being criticized for his controversial use structuralism ideology. He is the author over ten books on the Iron Age of Africa,^[3] as well as numerous scholarly journal articles on the subject.

References

↑ Huffman, T.N. 2007: A Handbook to the Iron Age: The Archaeology of Pre-Colonial Farming Societies in Southern Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg.
↑ Beach, David (1998). "Cognitive Archaeology and Imaginary History at Great Zimbabwe". Current Anthropology 39: 47. doi:10.1086/204698.
↑ WorldCat

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