Thomas Huffman

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Thomas Huffman is affiliated with the following schools: University of Cape Town, University of Johannesburg, University of Denver, University of Pretoria, University of the Witwatersrand

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#276

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#413

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Thomas Huffman's Degrees

Bachelors Archaeology University of Cape Town
PhD Archaeology University of Pretoria

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According to Wikipedia, Thomas N. Huffman was Professor Emeritus of archaeology in association with the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He specialised in pre-colonial farming societies in southern Africa. Huffman is most well known for his identification of the Central Cattle Pattern at Mapungubwe, a pre-colonial state in southern Africa. This, in turn he argued as the main influence in the formation of the Zimbabwe Pattern at Great Zimbabwe. Arguably his seminal contribution to the field was A Handbook to the Iron Age: The Archaeology of Pre-Colonial Farming Societies in Southern Africa , which has contributed to the understanding of ceramic style analysis and culture history focusing on these groups.

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Handbook to the Iron Age : the archaeology of pre-colonial farming societies in Southern Africa (2007) (292)
Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the African Iron Age (1982) (214)
Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe: The origin and spread of social complexity in southern Africa (2009) (148)
MAPUNGUBWE AND THE ORIGINS OF THE ZIMBABWE CULTURE (2000) (142)
Archaeological evidence for climatic change during the last 2000 years in southern Africa (1996) (118)
The Early Iron Age and the Spread of the Bantu (1970) (110)
Ceramics, classification and Iron Age entities (1980) (105)
Ceramics, settlements and Late Iron Age migrations (1989) (104)
The Central Cattle Pattern and interpreting the past (2001) (91)
The Rise and Fall of Zimbabwe (1972) (81)
Antiquity of the South Atlantic Anomaly and evidence for top-down control on the geodynamo (2015) (78)
Climate change during the Iron Age in the Shashe-Limpopo Basin, southern Africa (2008) (67)
THE CHRONOLOGY OF GREAT ZIMBABWE (1991) (64)
Snakes and birds: expressive space at great Zimbabwe (1981) (64)
The Trance Hypothesis and the Rock Art of Zimbabwe (1983) (62)
WITHDRAWN: An Evaluation of Modern Pottery from Southern Africa as a Magnetic Recorder (2012) (62)
Archaeological evidence and conventional explanations of southern Bantu settlement patterns (1986) (61)
A cultural proxy for drought: ritual burning in the Iron age of Southern Africa (2009) (58)
The archaeology of the Nguni past (2004) (55)
Pollen analysis of Iron Age cow dung in southern Africa (2000) (55)
Expressive Space in the Zimbabwe Culture (1984) (54)
Handbook to the Iron Age (2007) (48)
Settlement hierarchies in the northern Transvaal: Zimbabwe ruins and Venda history (1987) (46)
Broederstroom and the origins of cattle ‐ keeping in Southern Africa (1990) (46)
The Leopard's Kopje tradition (1974) (44)
Regionality in the Iron Age: the case of the Sotho-Tswana (2002) (42)
State Formation in Southern Africa: A Reply to Kim and Kusimba (2010) (42)
Iron Age Migrations (1989) (39)
Intensive El Nino and the Iron Age of South-eastern Africa (2010) (36)
Presidential Address: The Antiquity of Lobola (1998) (34)
Cognitive studies of the iron age in Southern Africa (1986) (32)
The stylistic origin of Bambata and the spread of mixed farming in southern Africa (2005) (31)
Mapungubwe: Ancient African Civilisation on the Limpopo (2005) (28)
New Perspectives on Eastern Bantu (1994) (28)
Excavations at Silver Leaves: A Final Report (1996) (27)
On Why Pots Are Decorated the Way They Are (1988) (25)
Vitrified cattle dung in the Iron Age of southern Africa (2013) (24)
Maize grindstones, Madikwe pottery and ochre mining in precolonial South Africa (2006) (22)
Ancient mining and Zimbabwe (1974) (22)
An archeomagnetic analysis of burnt grain bin floors from ca. 1200 to 1250 AD Iron-Age South Africa (2012) (19)
Cattle from Mabveni (1975) (19)
Archaeology, baobabs and drought: Cultural proxies and environmental data from the Mapungubwe landscape, southern Africa (2016) (18)
New Archeomagnetic Directional Records From Iron Age Southern Africa (ca. 425–1550 CE) and Implications for the South Atlantic Anomaly (2018) (18)
Leokwe and K2: Ethnic Stratification during the Middle Iron Age in Southern Africa (2007) (18)
Khami and the Venda in the Mapungubwe landscape (2011) (17)
Test Excavations at Naba and Lanlory, Northern Mashonaland (1979) (17)
Historical archaeology of the Mapungubwe area : Boer, Birwa, Sotho-Tswana and Machete (2012) (17)
SHONA ETHNOGRAPHY AND IRON AGE BURIALS (2003) (16)
Social Complexity in Southern Africa (2015) (16)
The Soapstone Birds From Great Zimbabwe (1985) (15)
Iron Age Migrations: The Ceramic Sequence in Southern Zambia (1991) (13)
Symbols in stone : unravelling the mystery of Great Zimbabwe (1987) (13)
BEYOND DATA: THE AIM AND PRACTICE OF ARCHAEOLOGY (2004) (13)
Test Excavations at Chamabvefva, Southern Mashonaland (1979) (13)
Shona Pottery from Pumula Township, Bulawayo, Rhodesia (1972) (13)
Ritual Space in Pre-Colonial Farming Societies in Southern Africa (2012) (12)
Revisiting Great Zimbabwe (2010) (11)
The occurrence of vitrified dung from the Kamdeboo district, southern Karoo, and Den Staat, Limpopo Valley, South Africa : research in action (2003) (11)
A new perspective on Bantu expansion and classification: linguistic and archaeological evidence fifty years after Doke (1993) (10)
Gokomere Pottery from the Tunnel Site, Gokomere Mission (1976) (9)
Caddoan Archaeology on the High Plains: A Conceptual Nexus of Bison, Lodges, Maize, and Rock Art (2014) (9)
Bioarchaeological Analysis of Iron Age Human Skeletons from Zambia (2014) (9)
Salvage Excavations on Greefswald: Leokwe Commoners and K2 Cattle (2014) (8)
Hypothesis Evaluation: A Reply to Hall (1983) (5)
Direct OSL dating of Iron Age pottery from South Africa – Preliminary dosimetry investigations (2012) (5)
The extractive metallurgy of copper at Iron Age Madikwe (2007) (4)
Ancient metallurgy in the Tswapong Hills, Botswana: a preliminary report on archaeological context (2016) (4)
Ritual Space in the Zimbabwe Culture (2014) (3)
Origins of Mapungubwe Project: test excavations at Den Staat 14B and 14C (2017) (3)
Debating the 500 Year Initiative: History, anthropology or both? (2012) (3)
Chemical analyses of glass beads from two Early Iron Age sites in Zimbabwe: Zhizo Hill and Makuru (2018) (2)
Apishapa rock art and Great Basin shamanism: power, souls, and pilgrims (2017) (2)
New AMS dates for the Middle Iron Age in the Mapungubwe landscape (2021) (2)
The archaeological context of recent archaeomagnetic research in Zimbabwe (2018) (2)
Test excavations at Liz 197: a K2-period homestead in the Limpopo Valley, South Africa (2016) (2)
Caddoan Archaeology on the High Plains: A Reply (2015) (1)
The Rhino Early Iron Age site, Thabazimbi, South Africa (2020) (1)
Modelling Water Use at Great Zimbabwe: An Ethnohistoric, Ethnoarchaeological, and GIS Landscape Analysis at an Ancient African City. TENDAI TREDDAH MUSINDO. 2019. BAR International Series S2952, British Archaeological Reports, Oxford. xviii + 118 pp. (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4073-5397-5. (2021) (1)
The smell of power: the Apishapa pilgrimage trail (2019) (1)
Implications of new AMS dates for the Khami Period in the Mapungubwe Landscape (2021) (1)
The Travel Chronicles of Mrs J. Theodore Bent. Volume II: The African Journeys. Mabel Bent's Diaries of 1883–1898, from the Archive of the Joint Library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies, London (2014) (1)
Multispecimen and temper archeomagnetic studies: Application to Iron Age sites from southern Africa (2008) (1)
Cultural traditions on the High Plains (2019) (1)
AMS Dates and the Chronology of Great Zimbabwe (2020) (1)
Test excavations at Genadendal Dam and Wonderboom, Madikwe Reserve, South Africa (2017) (1)
Editorial (2017) (0)
Centennial geomagnetic field strength change recorded in Iron Age (1000-1800 AD) ceramics from southern Africa (2009) (0)
Cultural diversity during the last 2000 years in southern Africa (2018) (0)
Pathways to power, new perspectives on the emergence of social inequality; The comparative archaeology of complex societies [Book Review] (2013) (0)
Excavations at Great Zimbabwe: Commoner Housing versus Elite Enclosures (2018) (0)
Paleointensity of Iron Age pottery shards from southern Africa (2008) (0)
Antiquity of the South Atlantic Anomaly: Evidence for top-down influence on the geodynamo (2014) (0)
Zimbabwe Ruins in Botswana: Settlement Hierarchies, Political Boundaries and Symbolic Statements (2021) (0)
Geomagnetic Field Strength Recorded in Iron Age Ceramics from Southern Africa (2009) (0)
Preliminary paleointensity investigation of Iron Age pottery shards from southern Africa (2007) (0)
Archaeomagnetic analyses of Iron Age burnt hut floors from southern African (2010) (0)
Paradigms in Conflict: Cognitive Archaeology on the High Plains (2022) (0)
Ntshekane and the Central Cattle Pattern (2019) (0)
Cultural proxies for drought in the Iron Age of South-eastern Africa (2016) (0)
Upper Republican and Apishapa Interaction on the High Plains (2016) (0)
Pueblo ethnography, Sopris archaeology, and the sacred geography of sopris rock art (2021) (0)
Fifty years of iron age research: A personal odyssey (2014) (0)
Treatise on the Rivers of Cuama (Tratado dos Rios de Cuama) by António da Conceição (2010) (0)
AN ARCHEOMAGNETIC RECORD FROM SOUTHERN AFRICA AND ITS BEARING ON THE HISTORY OF THE SOUTH ATLANTIC ANOMALY (2017) (0)
Apishapa Rock Art and Soul Capture (2017) (0)
Settlements and culture : Cognitive models in African prehistory (2015) (0)

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