Barnard, Alan J.

Bushmen: Kalahari hunter-gatherers and their descendants

by Barnard, Alan J.

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The hunter-gatherers of southern Africa known as 'Bushmen' or 'San' are not one single ethnic group, but several. They speak a diverse variety of languages, and have many different settlement patterns, kinship systems and economic practices. The fact that we think of them as a u…

The purpose of this work is the development of analyses for the structural response of thin plates, considering material and geometric nonlinearities both separately and in combination. The analyses presented are based on the finite element method and employ hybrid (Pian) elemen…