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History of Botswana

A Brief History of Botswana
From AfricaNet, a capsule history outlining the main events beginning in the 10th century AD.

Bosutswe (Botswana)
Bosutswe is the name of a deeply stratified Toutswe culture site, located on the Motloutse river (tributary to the Zambezi River) at the eastern edge of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana.

Geography of Botswana
From Matt Rosenberg, Guide to Geography at About, a collection of maps and other geographical data on Botswana.

Neil Parsons' History of Botswana Page
From Neil Parsons at the University of Botswana, a compendium of information about Botswana, including a cultural history.

Toutswe Tradition
The Toutswe Tradition is the name given to an African iron age cultural group in the Limpopo River valley of Botswana from about AD 700 and 1300.

Toutswemogala (Botswana)
The site of Toutswemogala is a large permanent settlement of the Toutswe Tradition located in the Limpopo River valley of eastern Botswana.

Urban Origins in Eastern and Southern Africa
At the University of Uppsala, a multinational project involving Botswana, the Comoro islands, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, Sweden, Tanzania/Zanzibar and Zimbabwe.

White Paintings Rock Shelter
Fish exploitation in the late Pleistocene, an abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology, by Lawrence Robbins et al.

World Atlas: Botswana
The original page from the World Atlas of Archaeology on the archaeology of Botswana.