PALACES OF STONE, uncovering ancient southern African kingdoms

168pp., b/w & colour illus., maps, paperback, Cape Town, 2021

History of early southern African stone palaces and the societies that built them, from AD 900 to approximately 1850.

Includes Great Zimbabwe, Danangombe and Khami in Zimbabwe, Manyikeni in Mozambique, Mapungubwe and Schroda in South Africa and Upper and Lower Majande in Botswana.

Mike Main is a management consultant, freelance writer and lay archaeologist who lives in Gaberone, Botswana. He is the author of African Adventurer's Guide: Botswana.

Thomas N. Huffman is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand. His books include Snakes & Crocodiles: power and symbolism in ancient Zimbabwe and Handbook to the Iron Age: the archaeology of pre-colonial farming societies in Southern Africa.