caa a22 4500 605448604 CHVBK 20210128100137.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10437-015-9183-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10437-015-9183-x Coercion and Warfare in the Rise of State Societies in Southern Zambezia [Elektronische Daten] [Nam Kim, Chapurukha Kusimba, Lawrence Keeley] Researchers have raised a wide range of variables to account for the emergence and governance of complex polities. Warfare and investment in military power, along with an expansionist ideology, are often raised as catalysts for the emergence of state societies and hierarchical forms of leadership. In southern Africa's Zambezian region, complex polities arose during the Later Iron Age, presently dated to the early second millennium CE. Wealth accumulation in the form of arable land for grazing cattle, as well as the development of a highly regulated elite ideology coupled with favorable climatic conditions, factored into this trajectory of sociopolitical development. This paper explores the role coercion may have played in cultural changes associated with increased political complexity in Zambezia. Coercive and persuasive leadership is often challenging to recognize archaeologically. Do we have sufficient visible datasets to support coercive power and conflict as a dominant factor for cultural change in this region? Was conflict a significant driver of change in the prehistoric Shashi-Limpopo Basin? How does the evidence stand up to scrutiny when evaluated against known archaeological signatures for warfare? Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Coercion nationallicence Fortification nationallicence Great Zimbabwe Culture nationallicence Mapungubwe nationallicence Political centralization nationallicence Warfare nationallicence Zambezia nationallicence Kim Nam Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 5438 Social Science, 1180 Observatory Drive, 53706, Madison, WI, USA aut Kusimba Chapurukha Department of Anthropology, American University, Hamilton Hall, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, 20016, Washington, DC, USA aut Keeley Lawrence Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007 W. Harrison Street, 60607, Chicago, IL, USA aut African Archaeological Review Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 32/1(2015-03-01), 1-34 0263-0338 32:1<1 2015 32 10437 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-015-9183-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-015-9183-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kim Nam Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 5438 Social Science, 1180 Observatory Drive, 53706, Madison, WI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kusimba Chapurukha Department of Anthropology, American University, Hamilton Hall, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, 20016, Washington, DC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Keeley Lawrence Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007 W. Harrison Street, 60607, Chicago, IL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- African Archaeological Review Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 32/1(2015-03-01), 1-34 0263-0338 32:1<1 2015 32 10437