THE ERASED CIVILIZATION VOLUME III

This volume covers 1650–1800, with controlled overruns: the 1629 Mutapa treaty that frames the fiscal inversion; Campbell and Kay in 1820–21, who first walk Kaditshwene; Thulamela and Mapungubwe as reception of earlier states; Farini in 1885 as a control case of invented stone. Each overrun is labelled in the chapter that uses it.

The book has three parts.

Part I reads the European files that do exist — VOC inland paper, the first British occupation (WO 1, not CO 48), early LMS journals — and states what they do not contain.

Part II reads the stone: Kaditshwene, Marothodi, Molokwane, Bokoni, then Mapungubwe/Thulamela as twentieth-century knowledge politics, and the Kalahari “lost city” as geology plus desire.

Part III reads the Cuama system: river nodes, feiras, kuruva and empata, the 1629 paper, Dombo’s war, Conceição, Dambarare’s churchyard, Zumbo, the Jesuit–Dominican–Augustinian split, and the 1759 cut.