26th January 2007, 12:02 PM
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When I went to the survival site I came straight across the bushman story. I once worked at the Tsumeb mine in Namibia which apparently was part of the area which the âbushmanâ controlled (long way from the central Kalahari) and from which the bushmen supplied metals ânot sure if it was ore or worked, to local âiron ageâ people and possibly further away prior to the arrival of Europeans. They are supposed to have had some kind of monarchy system. Now thrown all over the survival site is âThe 'Bushmen' are the oldest inhabitants of southern Africa, where they have lived for at least 20,000 years.â that this was their âtraditional territoryâ and I cant help but feel that I am supposed to imaging a pure unchanged hunter gather setting 20000 years old. All these statements seems to me can to be a very emotive thing for the rest of the Botswanians who are referred to by survival as the âgovernmentâ but presumably might to be lumped as iron age people who have only been around southern africa for âand this was a bloody contentious issues for a long time in south African âarchaeologyâ as long as the iron age and not a century or so before the Europeans turned up-Great Zimbabwe. Botswana, a young democracy-population little bigger than Birmingham, âinheritedâ the CKGR from a bunch of racists and colonialists-(the days of Bechuanaland ended ish 1964- CKGR 1961 started) who were more interested in keeping the area for themselves and gave more of a fig for the âgameâ than the people âbit like AONBs (sorryish). Botswana also has inherited Europeans and refugees from current and previous conflicts in southern africa. That it is a mess I am in full agreement but I still see very little to commemorate in the name of heritage management and suggest that there are some extremely patronising postures being taken that people should be extremely wary of. I probably am propagating some here myself for which I am extremely sorry but where is the heritage management in the story or others on the survival site. I would prefer the story as owners have mineral rights forcibly taken from them and I think that people might like to consider if they own the mineral rights to their back garden.
And then theres this to âmanageâ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6293333.stm
How long before DNA mapping becomes the homogeny (pseudo) of archaeological interpretation in ancestral identity cases
Archaeological interpretation- if only
When I went to the survival site I came straight across the bushman story. I once worked at the Tsumeb mine in Namibia which apparently was part of the area which the âbushmanâ controlled (long way from the central Kalahari) and from which the bushmen supplied metals ânot sure if it was ore or worked, to local âiron ageâ people and possibly further away prior to the arrival of Europeans. They are supposed to have had some kind of monarchy system. Now thrown all over the survival site is âThe 'Bushmen' are the oldest inhabitants of southern Africa, where they have lived for at least 20,000 years.â that this was their âtraditional territoryâ and I cant help but feel that I am supposed to imaging a pure unchanged hunter gather setting 20000 years old. All these statements seems to me can to be a very emotive thing for the rest of the Botswanians who are referred to by survival as the âgovernmentâ but presumably might to be lumped as iron age people who have only been around southern africa for âand this was a bloody contentious issues for a long time in south African âarchaeologyâ as long as the iron age and not a century or so before the Europeans turned up-Great Zimbabwe. Botswana, a young democracy-population little bigger than Birmingham, âinheritedâ the CKGR from a bunch of racists and colonialists-(the days of Bechuanaland ended ish 1964- CKGR 1961 started) who were more interested in keeping the area for themselves and gave more of a fig for the âgameâ than the people âbit like AONBs (sorryish). Botswana also has inherited Europeans and refugees from current and previous conflicts in southern africa. That it is a mess I am in full agreement but I still see very little to commemorate in the name of heritage management and suggest that there are some extremely patronising postures being taken that people should be extremely wary of. I probably am propagating some here myself for which I am extremely sorry but where is the heritage management in the story or others on the survival site. I would prefer the story as owners have mineral rights forcibly taken from them and I think that people might like to consider if they own the mineral rights to their back garden.
And then theres this to âmanageâ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6293333.stm
How long before DNA mapping becomes the homogeny (pseudo) of archaeological interpretation in ancestral identity cases
Archaeological interpretation- if only