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Episode 8 - The San art of the Apocalypse, a Dutch maritime revolution and Sir Francis Drake lauds the ‘fairest Cape’
So by the early 1500s Portugal controlled the major ports along northern Mozambique and into modern day Kenya all the way up to Mombasa. However, the…
5 years, 3 months ago
Episode 7 – Vasco de Gama reports African dogs also bark and the demise of Great Zimbabwe
We heard last episode how Portuguese explorer Bartolemeu Dias had rounded the Cape and landed at Mossel Bay in November 1488. He was the first person…
5 years, 4 months ago
Episode 6 - Mapungubwe, Great Zimbabwe, the first Sotho/Tswana and Nguni and a bit of Bartolomeu Dias
As we heard last episode Mapungubwe emerged from the increased trade between central south Africa and the East Coast seaboard including ivory, skins …
5 years, 4 months ago
Episode 5 - The Mapungubwe empire emerges from Indian Ocean trade networks in southern Africa
The distinction between the eastern and well-watered part of the country with summer rainfall and good soils, and the more arid western region with i…
5 years, 4 months ago
Episode 4 - Pottery and ivory trade between 250AD and 1000AD as farmers fan out over the coastal lowlands
This is episode 4 and we’re at the point where the first farmers arrived in Southern Africa 2000 years ago. AS we now know, prior to this event, ther…
5 years, 4 months ago
Episode 3 – 6000 year-old hunter-gatherer ochre and the first Bantu farmers arrive in Southern Africa
This episode we’re moving forward into the early stone age as it’s known and much of our story covers the period after the last ice age which ended 1…
5 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2 - A scenic swoop through Southern Africa and the ice-age that almost caused human extinction
This is episode 2 and we’re continue our geostrophic tour around the beautiful landscape of Southern Africa after a brief geology excursion in episod…
5 years, 5 months ago
A Geology excursion and Southern African pre-history – wealth hidden in ancient rocks
This is episode one of what is going to be a fairly lengthy series which by could extend over more than three years as we burrow deeply into a truly …
5 years, 5 months ago