Tim Forssman is a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria. Previously, he managed a dam development mitigation project in Lesotho and was a postdoctoral reader at the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Pretoria. His research interests include forager-farmer interactions, forager economies, trade dynamics, landscape archaeology, and rock art.

'In summary, Forssman’s book provides new knowledge of and ideas about hunter-gatherers in the Limpopo Valley during the last 3000 years. His work opens many new avenues for research that I hope will attract students and researchers in the years to come.'

• Chapter 1: Interactions, frameworks and complexity ; Chapter 2: Forager contexts in the middle Limpopo Valley ; Chapter 3: Continuities and discontinuities across the contact divide ; Chapter 4: Early socio-political change ; Chapter 5: Foragers during and after state formation ; Chapter 6: Networks of Change in the valley and beyond ; Chapter 7: Redressing perspectives of foragers interactions ; Chapter 8: References

Tim Forssman is a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria. Previously, he managed a dam development mitigation project in Lesotho and was a postdoctoral reader at the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Pretoria. His research interests include forager-farmer interactions, forager economies, trade dynamics, landscape archaeology, and rock art.

'In summary, Forssman’s book provides new knowledge of and ideas about hunter-gatherers in the Limpopo Valley during the last 3000 years. His work opens many new avenues for research that I hope will attract students and researchers in the years to come.'

• Chapter 1: Interactions, frameworks and complexity ; Chapter 2: Forager contexts in the middle Limpopo Valley ; Chapter 3: Continuities and discontinuities across the contact divide ; Chapter 4: Early socio-political change ; Chapter 5: Foragers during and after state formation ; Chapter 6: Networks of Change in the valley and beyond ; Chapter 7: Redressing perspectives of foragers interactions ; Chapter 8: References

Tim Forssman is a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria. Previously, he managed a dam development mitigation project in Lesotho and was a postdoctoral reader at the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Pretoria. His research interests include forager-farmer interactions, forager economies, trade dynamics, landscape archaeology, and rock art.

'In summary, Forssman’s book provides new knowledge of and ideas about hunter-gatherers in the Limpopo Valley during the last 3000 years. His work opens many new avenues for research that I hope will attract students and researchers in the years to come.'

• Chapter 1: Interactions, frameworks and complexity ; Chapter 2: Forager contexts in the middle Limpopo Valley ; Chapter 3: Continuities and discontinuities across the contact divide ; Chapter 4: Early socio-political change ; Chapter 5: Foragers during and after state formation ; Chapter 6: Networks of Change in the valley and beyond ; Chapter 7: Redressing perspectives of foragers interactions ; Chapter 8: References