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The Barrack Street well: images of a Cape Town household in the nineteenth century (1990)
Journal Article
Hall, M., Halkett, D., Klose, J., Ritchie, G., & Poggenpoel, C. (1990). The Barrack Street well: images of a Cape Town household in the nineteenth century. South African archaeological bulletin, 45(152), 73-92

This paper describes the results of excavation of well deposits from Barrack Street, Cape Town. The sequence starts with an assemblage dated to the late eighteenth century and continues, with a clear stratigraphy, until the late nineteenth century. A... Read More about The Barrack Street well: images of a Cape Town household in the nineteenth century.

A stone wall out of the earth that thundering cannon cannot destroy: bastion and moat at the Castle, Cape Town (1990)
Journal Article
Hall, M., Halkett, D., Vanbeek, P., & Klose, J. (1990). A stone wall out of the earth that thundering cannon cannot destroy: bastion and moat at the Castle, Cape Town. Social Dynamics, 16(1), 22-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/02533959008458483

Although the urgency with which the Dutch East India Company administration at the Cape built defensive works was a direct result of their fear of attack from both land and sea, there was an additional imperative, for the Castle at Cape Town stood as... Read More about A stone wall out of the earth that thundering cannon cannot destroy: bastion and moat at the Castle, Cape Town.

Farmers, kings, and traders: The people of southern Africa, 200-1860 (1990)
Book
Hall, M. (1990). Farmers, kings, and traders: The people of southern Africa, 200-1860. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

In this overview of the origins and development of black societies in southern Africa, Martin Hall reconstructs the region's past by throughly examining both the archaeological and the historical records. Beginning with the gradual southward movement... Read More about Farmers, kings, and traders: The people of southern Africa, 200-1860.