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Book Synopsis Journal of African Archaeology 7 (1) by : Peter Breunig
Download or read book Journal of African Archaeology 7 (1) written by Peter Breunig and published by . This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents include: Guest Editorial - Continuities and changes in southern African archaeology; The social geography of pottery in Botswana as reconstructed by optical petrography; Ochre for the toolmaker: shaping the Still Bay points at Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa); Graves from Dahomey: beliefs, ritual and society in ancient Benin; Small size, high value: composition and manufacture of second millennium AD copper-based beads from northern Zimbabwe; Dating the Mapungubwe Hill gold; The cohortes Augustae Cyrenaicae; Review of R. Joussaume. Tuto Fela et les steles du sud de l'Ethiopie; Review of S. di Lernia & D. Zampetti. La Memoria dellArte. Le pitture rupestri dellAcacus tra passato e futuro; Review of R. Heckendorf. Bubalin und Bovidien in Sudmarokko: Kontext, Klassifikation und Chronologie der Felsbilder im mittleren Draa-Tal; Review of D.J. Mattingly. The Archaeology of Fazzan, Vol. 1 and 2; Review of N. David. Performance and Agency: The DGB Sites of Northern Cameroon
Book Synopsis Journal of African Archaeology 7 (2) by : Peter Breunig
Download or read book Journal of African Archaeology 7 (2) written by Peter Breunig and published by . This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle to Later Stone Age technological transition in East Africa. New data from Mumba Rockshelter Bed V (Tanzania) and their implications for the origin of modern human behavior; Post-Capsian occupation in the eastern Maghreb: implications of a revised chronological assessment for the adult burial at Ain Misteheyia; Excavations at Hlamba Mlonga Hill, Malilangwe Trust, south-eastern Zimbabwe; The glass beads from Hlamba Mlonga, Zimbabwe: classification, context and interpretation; Pastoralism in the Western Cape Province, South Africa: a retrospective review; Early plant cultivation in the Central African rain forest: first millennium BC pearl millet from South Cameroon; Provincial, superficial or incompetent? A few comments on Paul Bahn's Memoria dell'arte book review; Review of S.J. Salm & T. Falola (eds.). African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective; Review of R. Cappers (ed.). Fields of Change: Progress in African Archaeobotany; Review of S. Badenhorst, P. Mitchell & J.C. Driver (eds.). Animals and People: Archaeozoological Papers in Honour of Ina Plug; Review of H.T. Wright (ed.). Early State Formation in Central Madagascar: An Archaeological Survey of Western Avaradran; Review of T. Insoll (ed.). Current Archaeological Research in Ghana; Review of J.D. Clark et al. (eds.). Adrar Bous. Archaeology of a Central Saharan Granitic Ring Complex in Niger; Books Noted
Book Synopsis Journal of African Archaeology 1 (1) by : Peter Breunig
Download or read book Journal of African Archaeology 1 (1) written by Peter Breunig and published by . This book was released on 2003-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents include: Action on matter: the history of the uniquely African tamper and concave anvil pot-forming technique; Mining the archives: a pottery sequence for Borno, Nigeria; Toward a systematic bead description system: a view from the Lower Falemme, Senegal; Animal exploitation and pottery technology during pastoral times: the evidence from Uan Telocat, Libyan Sahara; The beads of Kissi, Burkina Faso; Chemical analysis of ancient African glass beads: a very preliminary report
Book Synopsis Journal of African Archaeology 12 (1) by : Peter Breunig
Download or read book Journal of African Archaeology 12 (1) written by Peter Breunig and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Spatial Approaches in African Archaeology by : Cameron Gokee
Download or read book Spatial Approaches in African Archaeology written by Cameron Gokee and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interplay between African archaeology and geospatial methods from three broad perspectives. First, several contributors examine the technical possibilities and limits of using satellite imagery to detect archaeological sites and model their physical environs. A second perspective is the integration of new geospatial data and methods into site- and landscape-scale analyses to better address questions about social organization and subjective experience in African pasts. A final perspective considers the interplay between geospatial technologies and community archaeology in Africa. Recognizing that GIS and RS supersede traditional divisions in African archaeology, such as different periods, geographic regions, and theoretical orientations, the chapters aim to be widely applicable. Arranged by methodological emphasis, the case studies move from technical discussions of specific geospatial tools to general applications for addressing specific sociohistorical topics. Each chapter clearly explains the links between their archaeological questions and analytical methods, as well as how their results advance our understanding of African pasts and heritage resources. Many of the chapters can serve as learning models for archaeologists who are new to GIS or curious about its applications to their work. Others represent recent advances in geospatial applications of greater interest to more seasoned GIS practitioners, demonstrating the potential for African scholarship to contribute to methodological innovations. This book is of interest to students and researchers of African and historical archaeology and anthropology. Previously published in African Archaeological Review Volume 37, issue 1, March 2020
Book Synopsis Metals in Past Societies by : Shadreck Chirikure
Download or read book Metals in Past Societies written by Shadreck Chirikure and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to communicate to both a global and local audience, the key attributes of pre-industrial African metallurgy such as technological variation across space and time, methods of mining and extractive metallurgy and the fabrication of metal objects. These processes were transformative in a physical and metaphoric sense, which made them total social facts. Because the production and use of metals was an accretion of various categories of practice, a chaine operatoire conceptual and theoretical framework that simultaneously considers the embedded technological and anthropological factors was used. The book focuses on Africa’s different regions as roughly defined by cultural geography. On the one hand there is North Africa, Egypt, the Egyptian Sudan, and the Horn of Africa which share cultural inheritances with the Middle East and on the other is Africa south of the Sahara and the Sudan which despite interacting with the former is remarkably different in terms of technological practice. For example, not only is the timing of metallurgy different but so is the infrastructure for working metals and the associated symbolic and sociological factors. The cultural valuation of metals and the social positions of metal workers were different too although there is evidence of some values transfer and multi-directional technological cross borrowing. The multitude of permutations associated with metals production and use amply demonstrates that metals participated in the production and reproduction of society. Despite huge temporal and spatial differences there are so many common factors between African metallurgy and that of other regions of the world. For example, the role of magic and ritual in metal working is almost universal be it in Bolivia, Nepal, Malawi, Timna, Togo or Zimbabwe. Similarly, techniques of mining were constrained by the underlying geology but this should not in any way suggest that Africa’s metallurgy was derivative or that the continent had no initiative. Rather it demonstrates that when confronted with similar challenges, humanity in different regions of the world responded to identical challenges in predictable ways mediated as mediated by the prevailing cultural context. The success of the use of historical and ethnographic data in understanding variation and improvisation in African metallurgical practices flags the potential utility of these sources in Asia, Latin America and Europe. Some nuance is however needed because it is simply naïve to assume that everything depicted in the history or ethnography has a parallel in the past and vice versa. Rather, the confluence of archaeology, history and ethnography becomes a pedestal for dialogue between different sources, subjects and ideas that is important for broadening our knowledge of global categories of metallurgical practice.
Book Synopsis Journal of African Archaeology by : Peter Breunig
Download or read book Journal of African Archaeology written by Peter Breunig and published by . This book was released on 2004-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents include: Decoding an Early Holocene Saharan stratified site. Ceramic dispersion and site formation processes in the Takarkori rock-shelter, Acacus Mountains, Libya; Slag identification at southern African archaeological sites; A look into the earth: evaluating the use of magnetic survey in African archaeology; Iron smelting - a vanishing tradition: ethnographic study of this craft in south-west Ethiopia; Preliminary investigations in the Djebel Uweinat region, Libyan Desert; Review Essay. What do we know about African iron working?; Review of A. F.C. Holl. Ethnoarchaeology of Shuwa-Arab Settlements; Review of F. Jesse. Rahib 80/87. Ein Wavy-Line-Fundplatz im Wadi Howar und die fruheste Keramik in Nordafrika; Review of S. di Lernia & G. Manzi (eds.). Sand, Stones, and Bones. The Archaeology of Death in the Wadi Tanezzuft Valley (5000-2000 BP)
Book Synopsis Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change by : Erick Robinson
Download or read book Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change written by Erick Robinson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this edited volume is to bring together a diverse set of analyses to document how small-scale societies responded to paleoenvironmental change based on the evidence of their lithic technologies. The contributions bring together an international forum for interpreting changes in technological organization - embracing a wide range of time periods, geographic regions and methodological approaches. As technology brings more refined information on ancient climates, the research on spatial and temporal variability of paleoenvironmental changes. In turn, this has also broadened considerations of the many ways that prehistoric hunter-gatherers may have responded to fluctuations in resource bases. From an archaeological perspective, stone tools and their associated debitage provide clues to understanding these past choices and decisions, and help to further the investigation into how variable human responses may have been. Despite significant advances in the theory and methodology of lithic technological analysis, there have been few attempts to link these developments to paleoenvironmental research on a global scale.
Book Synopsis The Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa by : James Denbow
Download or read book The Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa written by James Denbow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first detailed description of the prehistory of the Loango coast of west-central Africa over the course of more than 3000 years.
Book Synopsis Journal of African Archaeology 6 (1) by : Peter Breunig
Download or read book Journal of African Archaeology 6 (1) written by Peter Breunig and published by . This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents include: Editorial; The pottery sequence from Garumele (Niger) - a former Kanem-Borno capital?; L'art rupestre de la province de Namibe, Angola: etude des sites par rapport a leur position topographique; Fishing in the Lesotho Highlands: 26,000 years of fish exploitation, with special reference to Sehonghong shelter; Combining intensive field survey and digital technologies: new data on the Garamantian castles of Wadi Awiss, Acacus Mts., Libyan Sahara; Fuel and vegetation at Asa Koma (Republic of Djibouti) during the second millennium BC; An ageless view of first millennium AD southern African ceramics; Recent archaeological research at Toteng, Botswana: early domesticated livestock in the Kalahari; Review of C. Kriger. Cloth in West African History
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Botswana by : Barry Morton
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Botswana written by Barry Morton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of Botswana’s last founding father, Sir Ketumile Quett Masire, in June 2017, marked the end of an era. Since the release of the Fourth Edition of Historical Dictionary of Botswana in 2008, Botswana has gone through its most turbulent and divided decade to date. Throughout September 2016, when Botswana celebrated its 50th anniversary of independence, all the successes of the Seretse and Masire era were sources of massive national pride. Botswana had expanded provisions of electricity, water, education, and health services to almost all of its people and become a model nation that owned its natural resources and plowed the profits back into the nation’s development. Despite these successes, Botswana has a high unemployment rate (about 20 percent) and a much larger cohort of the underemployed. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of Botswana contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and more than 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities and aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Botswana.
Book Synopsis Journal of African Archaeology 3 (1) by : Peter Breunig
Download or read book Journal of African Archaeology 3 (1) written by Peter Breunig and published by . This book was released on 2005-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents include: Under the rocks: reconsidering the origin of the Kintampo Tradition and the development of food production in the Savanna-Forest/Forest of West Africa; Glass houses under the rocks: a reply to Watson; Straws within a glass house: a reply to Stahl; A preliminary report of excavations in Fewet, Libyan Sahara; Early Holocene seasonal movements between the desert and the Nile Valley. Details from the lithic industry of some Khartoum Variant and some Nabta/Kiseiba sites; The lithic assemblage of the 1975-1976 excavation of the Porc-Epic Cave, Dire-Dawa, Ethiopia. Implications for the East African Middle Stone Age; Culture and technology in the pottery of the medieval Sahel: a preliminary view from the Makarauci valley, Niger; Sociopolitical formation on the Yoruba northern frontier: a report of recent work at Ila-Iyara, Central Nigeria; Remembrance: Ari Siiriainen 16.11.1939 - 9.12.2004; Review of Ann B. Stahl (ed.). African Archaeology: A Critical Introduction; Review of Robert Vernet & Baouba O.M. Naffe. Dictionnaire Archeologique de la Mauritanie; Review of Simon Holdaway & Nicola Stern. A Record in Stone: The Study of Australia's Flaked Stone Artifacts; Review of J.D. Lewis-Williams & D.G. Pearce. San Spirituality. Roots, Expression and Social Consequences; Review of Timothy Insoll. The Archaeology of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa; Review of Graham Connah. Forgotten Africa: An Introduction to its Archaeology
Book Synopsis ATLAS of Tadrart Acacus rock art. A UNESCO World Heritage site in southwestern Libya by : Savino di Lernia
Download or read book ATLAS of Tadrart Acacus rock art. A UNESCO World Heritage site in southwestern Libya written by Savino di Lernia and published by All’Insegna del Giglio. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rock art sites of the Tadrart Acacus in southwestern Libya were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1985, largely owing to the activities started in 1955 by Fabrizio Mori, founder of the Libyan-Italian Mission in the Tadrart Acacus and Messak. Since the beginning, the Department of Antiquities of Tripoli and Sebha, Libya, and Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, have worked in the region nearly without interruption until 2011. This book presents the archive of the rock art sites, identified and recorded by the Italian Mission and by independent scholars, as described and critically assessed by the authors within the framework of the ASArt-DATA project (the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme). The contributions introducing the catalogue contextualize the environmental, archaeological, and cultural aspects of the engravings and paintings. They include chapters addressing the historical, cultural, and diplomatic issues involved in the long-term bilateral scientific cooperation.
Book Synopsis Journal of African Archaeology 4 (1) by : Peter Breunig
Download or read book Journal of African Archaeology 4 (1) written by Peter Breunig and published by . This book was released on 2006-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents include: Guest Editorial - Archaeological science and African archaeology; An exploratory study of copper and iron production at Marothodi, an early 19th century Tswana town, Rustenburg District, South Africa; Iron smelting in pre-colonial Zimbabwe: evidence for diachronic change from Swart Village and Baranda, northern Zimbabwe; Lead isotopes in West African copper alloys; Chemical Analysis of glass Beads from Madagascar; Early Primary Glass Production in Southern Nigeria; An indigenous technology? A commentary on Lankton et al. "Early Primary Glass Production in Southern Nigeria"; Mise en evidence dans le nord-ouest du Gabon de la presence de lHomme au sein des forets dage Holocene; Zilum: A Mid-First Millennium BC Fortified Settlement near Lake Chad; Review Article: The Difficult Path of France / Africa Scientific Cooperation; Review of J.L. Quellec, P. & Ph. de Flers. Du Sahara au Nil. Peintures et gravures d'avant les Pharaos; Review of C.R. DeCorse. An Archaeology of Elmina. Africans and Europeans on the Gold Coast, 1400-1900
Book Synopsis Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi by : Yusuf M. Juwayeyi
Download or read book Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi written by Yusuf M. Juwayeyi and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comprehensive account of the origins and early history of the Chewa as revealed by oral tradition and archaeology that allows a more accurate picture of a pre-literate society.
Book Synopsis Materializing the Middle Passage by : Jane Webster
Download or read book Materializing the Middle Passage written by Jane Webster and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An estimated 2.7 million Africans made an enforced crossing of the Atlantic on British slave ships between c.1680 and 1807—a journey that has become known as the 'Middle Passage'. This book focuses on the slave ship itself. The slave ship is the largest artefact of the Transatlantic slave trade, but because so few examples of wrecked slaving vessels have been located at sea, it is rarely studied by archaeologists. Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Slave Shipping,1680-1807 argues that there are other ways for archaeologists to materialize the slave ship. It employs a pioneering interdisciplinary methodology combining primary documentary sources, maritime and terrestrial archaeology, paintings, maritime and ethnographic museum collections, and many other sources to 'rebuild' British slaving vessels and to identify changes to them over time. The book then goes on to consider the reception of the slave ship and its trade goods in coastal West Africa, and details the range, and uses, of the many African resources (including ivory, gold, and live animals) entering Britain on returning slave ships. The third section of the book focuses on the Middle Passage experiences of both captives and crews and argues that greater attention needs to be paid to the coping mechanisms through which Africans survived, yet also challenged, their captive passage. Finally, Jane Webster asks why the African Middle Passage experience remains so elusive, even after decades of scholarship dedicated to uncovering it. She considers when, how, and why the crossing was remembered by 'saltwater' captives in the Caribbean and North America. The marriage of words and things attempted in this richly illustrated book is underpinned throughout by a theoretical perspective combining creolization and postcolonial theory, and by a central focus on the materiality of the slave ship and its regimes.
Download or read book Journal of African Archaeology written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
