While Kaditshwene measures 4.5 km long and 1 km wide, and Molokwane is about 2.7 km long and about 750 m wide, the portion of Kweneng surveyed by LiDAR is 10 km long and 2 km wide. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/stone-town... - ThreadSky

rhaplord.bsky.social • 3 days ago

While Kaditshwene measures 4.5 km long and 1 km wide, and Molokwane is about 2.7 km long and about 750 m wide, the portion of Kweneng surveyed by LiDAR is 10 km long and 2 km wide.
https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/stone-towns-on-the-highveld-of-south

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rhaplord.bsky.social•3 days ago

Not far from Kweneng are the ruined settlements of Boschoek & Sun Shadow. The sites are part of a cluster of stone-walled ruins, the material remains found at both sites indicate that the settlements were abandoned relatively quickly
https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/stone-towns-on-the-highveld-of-south

rhaplord.bsky.social•3 days ago

Other important sites include; Nstuanatsatsi, whose ruins are mentioned in the account of Arbusset and Dauma 1846 in the origin of the Sotho. The site features Type-N settlement patterns, which are the oldest building style.
https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/stone-towns-on-the-highveld-of-south

rhaplord.bsky.social•3 days ago

“Many an hour have I walked, pensively, among the scenes of desolation —casting my thoughts back to the period when these now ruined habitations teemed with life and revelry. Nothing now remained but dilapidated walls, heaps of stones.”
https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/stone-towns-on-the-highveld-of-south

rhaplord.bsky.social•3 days ago

Travelers in the early 19th century who encountered these towns often attributed their abandonment to the regional warfare of the so-called mfecane wars —a prolonged period of regional warfare in southern Africa.
https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/stone-towns-on-the-highveld-of-south

rhaplord.bsky.social•3 days ago

While many of the accounts had certainly been exaggerated by the biases of these external observers, the conflicts of the period were evidently disruptive.
https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/stone-towns-on-the-highveld-of-south

rhaplord.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yet despite the devastation, several polities survived this upheaval and were encountered by the same authors, indicating that its effects were varied
https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/stone-towns-on-the-highveld-of-south

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