Background
Huffman, Thomas Niel was born on July 17, 1944 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States. Arrived in South Africa, 1977. Son of Max Niel and Edna (Taborn) Huffman.
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Great Zimbabwe is only one of many similar ruins in present-day Zimbabwe, eastern Botswana, the northern Transvaal, Venda and parts of Mozambique (the Zimbabwe culture area). Using both contemporary and medieval ethnographic data, Huffman explains the layouts of the sites in the Zimbabwe ruins, the structuring of specific units and the symbolism built into individual walls. Stylized snakes and crocodiles, for instance, appear everywhere, a reflection of their pervasive symbolic presence within Shona society. Huffmann uses his archaeological data to show how certain tribal customs have changed.
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"Iron Age Migrations" presents a substantial revision of the Iron Age sequence of Zambia based on the excavations of two Kalomo culture mounds. The linguistic and cultural history of both eastern and western Bantu speakers is reconstructed from ethnographic models of settlement organization and a detailed comparison of ceramic style. These two procedures help clarify the origins of the Luangwa tradition, the Kaloma culture and the early Iron Age of central and southern Africa. The book is aimed at researchers and students of African archaeology and anthropology.
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Huffman, Thomas Niel was born on July 17, 1944 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States. Arrived in South Africa, 1977. Son of Max Niel and Edna (Taborn) Huffman.
Bachelor, Denver University, 1966. Master of Arts, University Illinois, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, University Illinois, 1974.
Inspector monuments, History Monuments Commission, Rhodesia, 1970-1972; keeper antiquities, Queen Victoria Museum, Rhodesia, 1972-1976; chief science officer human science, National Museums & Monuments, Rhodesia, 1977; professor, head archaeology, U. Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, since 1977; director archaeological resources management, U. Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, since 1992.
(Great Zimbabwe is only one of many similar ruins in prese...)
("Iron Age Migrations" presents a substantial revision of ...)
Member South African Archaeol. Society (president 1996-1998), Southern African Association Archaeologists (president 1985-1988).