Volume 15   Number 1 2001                 ~SSN          0256-2316
   (Issue #24)
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  ~wana         Journal of African~ies
                  Essays on Botswana Archaeology
                           '"     edited by Karim Sadr
                               Bakgalagadi settlements
                              Ntsweng (Old Molepolole)
                             Mud wall dScay in Bobirwa
                                 Ostrich eggshell beads
                      Salt pro~uction in Makgadikgadi
                    ~        11tli-17th century land use
                    Butchery styles on cattle ca~s
                                 Vitrified..dung formatiOn
                          Initiation schOOlsat Mochudi


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                                 Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies vol. 15 no.1 (2001)
Special Issue: Essays on Botswana Archaeology edited by Karim Sadr
                                      Contents
       Introduction
                 Karim Sadr
3      Bakgalagadi settlements in historical and archaeological perspective
                 Patricia Maungo Lepekoane
23     An archaeological survey of Ntsweng in Molepolole
                 Princess  Sekgarametso
46     Archaeology and mud wall               decay     in    the    Bobirwa area:          an
       ethnoarchaeological survey
                 M.D.L. Baloi
60     An archaeological examination of ostrich eggshell beads in Botswana
                 Milton C. Tapela
75      Salt production and the salt trade in the Makgadikgadi Pans
                  Kabelo Matshetshe
91      Settlement and land use between the 11th and 17th centuries in eastern
        Botswana
                  Donald Mookodi
108     Butchery styles and the processing of cattle carcasses in Botswana
                  Cynthia Mooketsi
125     Vitrified dung in archaeological contexts: an experimental study on the
        process of its formation in the Mosu and Bobirwa areas
                  Bafentse Peter
 144    An ethnographic study of initiation schools among the Bakgatla ba ga
        Kgafela at Mochudi (1874-1988)
                  Morongwa    Nancy Mosothwane