Publications

This list contains a range of publications produced by project members relevant to the project, including those in the works.

Books

Fowler, K.D., Fayek, M. & van Schalkwyk, L.O. (in prep). The King’s Potters: Pottery Provisioning during the Zulu Kingdom, 1820-1879. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.

Journal Articles

Fowler, K.D. & van Schalkwyk, L.O. (under review) The king, the smith and the war hero: Zulu Kingdom settlement in the eastern emaKhosini. Southern African Humanities.

Fowler, K.D. & van Schalkwyk, L.O. (2025) The amakhanda settlement system of the Zulu Kingdom. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 60(2): 285-324. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2479337.

Horsburgh, K. Ann and Kent D. Fowler (2022). From head to tails: The genetic origins of Nguni cattle from Southern Africa. Nguni Journal 19, 74-76.

Fowler, K.D. & van Schalkwyk, L.O. (2022). Reconnaissance survey of the Zulu Kingdom period amakhanda in the emaKhosini basin, South Africa. Azania 57(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2022.2115686.

Fowler, K.D., Yang, P. & Halden, N.M. (2020) The provisioning of nineteenth century Zulu capitals, South Africa: Insights from strontium isotope analysis of cattle remains. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 31, https://10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102306.

Horsburgh, K. A. (2020). Genetics and Domestic Fauna in Southern Africa. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.247

Horsburgh, K., & Gosling, A. L. (2020). Systematic Ancient DNA Species Identification Fails to Find Late Holocene Domesticated Cattle in Southern Africa. Biology, 9(10), 316.

Horsburgh KA, Prost S, Gosling A, Stanton J-A, Rand C, Matisoo-Smith EA (2013) The Genetic Diversity of the Nguni Breed of African Cattle (Bos spp.): Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of Haplogroup T1. PLoS ONE 8(8): e71956. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0071956

Orton, J., Mitchell, P., Klein, R., Steele, T., Horsburgh, K.A 2013. An early date for cattle from Namaqualand, South Africa: implications for the origins of herding in southern Africa. Antiquity 87, 108-120.