African Archaeology Without Frontiers

Author : Chapurukha M Kusimba,Santores Tchandeu,Dirk Seidensticker,Adrianne Daggett,Marilee Wood,Laure Dussubieux,Tim Forssman,Kate Smuts,Nick Wiltshire,Akin Ogundiran,Matthew Davies,Caleb Adebayo Folorunso,Timothy Kipkeu Kipruto,Freda M’Mbogori,Henrietta L Moore,Emubosa Orijemie,Alex Schoeman,Festo W Gabriel,Elinaza Mjema,Philip de Barros,Gabriella Lucidi,Narcisse
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781776140350

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African Archaeology Without Frontiers by Chapurukha M Kusimba,Santores Tchandeu,Dirk Seidensticker,Adrianne Daggett,Marilee Wood,Laure Dussubieux,Tim Forssman,Kate Smuts,Nick Wiltshire,Akin Ogundiran,Matthew Davies,Caleb Adebayo Folorunso,Timothy Kipkeu Kipruto,Freda M’Mbogori,Henrietta L Moore,Emubosa Orijemie,Alex Schoeman,Festo W Gabriel,Elinaza Mjema,Philip de Barros,Gabriella Lucidi,Narcisse Pdf

Confronting national, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries, contributors to African Archaeology Without Frontiers argue against artificial limits and divisions created through the study of ?ages? that in reality overlap and cannot and should not be understood in isolation. Papers are drawn from the proceedings of the landmark 14th PanAfrican Archaeological Association Congress, held in Johannesburg in 2014, nearly seven decades after the conference planned for 1951 was re-located to Algiers for ideological reasons following the National Party?s rise to power in South Africa. Contributions by keynote speakers Chapurukha Kusimba and Akin Ogundiran encourage African archaeologists to practise an archaeology that collaborates across many related fields of study to enrich our understanding of the past. The nine papers cover a broad geographical sweep by incorporating material on ongoing projects throughout the continent including South Africa, Botswana, Cameroon, Togo, Tanzania, Kenya and Nigeria. Thematically, the papers included in the volume address issues of identity and interaction, and the need to balance cultural heritage management and sustainable development derived from a continent racked by social inequalities and crippling poverty. Edited by three leading archaeologists, the collection covers many aspects of African archaeology, and a range of periods from the earliest hominins to the historical period. It will appeal to specialists and interested amateurs.

Author : Karim Sadr,Amanda Esterhuysen,Christine Sievers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1776141490

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African Archaeology Without Frontiers by Karim Sadr,Amanda Esterhuysen,Christine Sievers Pdf

Author : Martin Hall
Publisher : BAR International Series
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : UCSC:32106010314158

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Frontiers by Martin Hall Pdf

(BAR S207, 1984)

Author : Peter Robertshaw
Publisher : James Currey (GB)
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018475627

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A History of African Archaeology by Peter Robertshaw Pdf

Author : Savino di Lernia,Marina Gallinaro
Publisher : All’Insegna del Giglio
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788878149458

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Archaeology in Africa. Potentials and perspectives on laboratory & fieldwork research by Savino di Lernia,Marina Gallinaro Pdf

Africa encompasses a multitude of environments and biomes that require specific scientific strategies – from desktop studies to field research to laboratory analysis – to tackle research questions that may range from the emergence of early humans to the ethnoarchaeological investigation. In several areas, turmoil, social instability and security constraints hamper or limit field activities and long-term funded programs. The kidnapping of German colleagues and the tragic death of two local collaborators in Nigeria urge to rethink our agenda and challenge our view of current research practice. This 1st Workshop on “Archaeology in Africa”, organized by Sapienza University of Rome, convened several researches from Italy or Italy-based researchers. The aim was to present and discuss theoretical, methodological and financial problems for Africanist researchers today. In a global perspective, the synergy between research groups is crucial. The need to intensify the national and international cooperation is also an essential step. This book collects a selection of the different perspectives presented to the workshop, mostly focussing from North Africa and East Africa.

Author : Peter Mitchell,Paul Lane
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191626142

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The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology by Peter Mitchell,Paul Lane Pdf

Africa has the longest and arguably the most diverse archaeological record of any of the continents. It is where the human lineage first evolved and from where Homo sapiens spread across the rest of the world. Later, it witnessed novel experiments in food-production and unique trajectories to urbanism and the organisation of large communities that were not always structured along strictly hierarchical lines. Millennia of engagement with societies in other parts of the world confirm Africa's active participation in the construction of the modern world, while the richness of its history, ethnography, and linguistics provide unusually powerful opportunities for constructing interdisciplinary narratives of Africa's past. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of African archaeology, covering the entirety of the continent's past from the beginnings of human evolution to the archaeological legacy of European colonialism. As well as covering almost all periods and regions of the continent, it includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates, and situates the subject's contemporary practice within the discipline's history and the infrastructural challenges now facing its practitioners. Bringing together essays on all these themes from over seventy contributors, many of them living and working in Africa, it offers a highly accessible, contemporary account of the subject for use by scholars and students of not only archaeology, but also history, anthropology, and other disciplines.

Author : Andrew M. Reid,Paul J. Lane
Publisher : Springer
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441988638

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African Historical Archaeologies by Andrew M. Reid,Paul J. Lane Pdf

This volume explores the range of interactions between the historical sources and archaeology that are available on the African continent. Written by a range of experts on different aspects of African archaeology, this book represents the first consideration of historical archaeology over the African continent as a whole. This seminal volume also explores Africa's place in global systems of thought and economic development and is of interest to historical archaeologists and historians.

Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009324731

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The Archaeology of Southern Africa by Peter Mitchell Pdf

This revised and updated edition provides a comprehensive synthesis of Southern Africa's archaeology over more than 3 million years.

Author : Tim Forssman
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789696868

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Foragers in the middle Limpopo Valley: Trade, Place-making, and Social Complexity by Tim Forssman Pdf

Foragers were present in the Limpopo Valley (South Africa) before the arrival of farmers and not only witnessed but also participated in local systems leading to the appearance of a complex society. Despite numerous studies in the valley, forager involvement in socio-political developments has been, until now, largely ignored.

Author : Chapurukha M. Kusimba,Sibel B. Kusimba
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781934536261

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East African Archaeology by Chapurukha M. Kusimba,Sibel B. Kusimba Pdf

The goal of this volume is to impart an appreciation of the many facets of East Africa's cultural and archaeological diversity over the last 2,000 years. It brings together chapters on East African archaeology, many by Africa-born archaeologists who review what is known, present new research, and pinpoint issues of debate and anomaly in the relatively poorly known prehistory of East Africa.

Author : Chapurukha M. Kusimba,Tiequan Zhu,Purity Wakabari Kiura
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498576154

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China and East Africa by Chapurukha M. Kusimba,Tiequan Zhu,Purity Wakabari Kiura Pdf

China and East Africa: Ancient Ties and Contemporary Flows marks the culmination of a new round of archaeological and historical research on the relations between China and Africa, from the origins to the present. Africa and Asia have always been in constant contact, through land and seas. The contributors to this volume debate and present the results of their research on the very complex and intricate networks of connections that crisscrossed the Indian Ocean and surrounding lands linking Africa to East Asia. A growing number of speakers of Austronesian languages returned to Africa, reaching Madagascar in the early centuries of the Common Era. The diffusion of domesticated plants, like bananas, from New Guinea to South Asia and Africa where phytoliths are dated to the mid-fourth millennium in Uganda and mid-first millennium BCE in southern Cameroon, provide additional evidence on early interactions between Africa and Asia. Africa and Asia have always been in constant contact, through land and seas. Edited by Chapurukha Kusimba, Tiequan Zhu, and Purity Wakabari Kiura, this collection explores different facets of the interaction between China and Africa, from their earliest manifestations to the present and with an eye to the future.

Author : Peter Ridgway Schmidt
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0759109656

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Historical Archaeology in Africa by Peter Ridgway Schmidt Pdf

Historical Archaeology in Africa is an inquiry into historical questions that count, proposing different ways of thinking about historical archaeology. Peter Schmidt challenges readers to expand their horizons . Confronting topics of oral traditions, the role of cultural landscapes in social memory, and historical misrepresentations of various cultures, Schmidt calls for a new pathway to an enriched, more nuanced, and more inclusive historical archaeology. Allowing Africa to speak for itself without colonial interpreters, Historical Archaeology in Africa will be of interest not only to historians and archaeologists, but to all concerned with Africa's past and present.

Author : Stephanie Wynne-Jones,Jeffrey Fleisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317506836

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Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory by Stephanie Wynne-Jones,Jeffrey Fleisher Pdf

Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory explores the place of Africa in archaeological theory, and the place of theory in African archaeology. The centrality of Africa to global archaeological thinking is highlighted, with a particular focus on materiality and agency in contemporary interpretation. As a means to explore the nature of theory itself, the volume also addresses differences between how African models are used in western theoretical discourse and the use of that theory within Africa. Providing a key contribution to theoretical discourse through a focus on the context of theory-building, this volume explores how African modes of thought have shaped our approaches to a meaningful past outside of Africa. A timely intervention into archaeological thought, Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory deconstructs the conventional ways we approach the past, positioning the continent within a global theoretical discourse and blending Western and African scholarship. This volume will be a valuable resource for those interested in the archaeology of Africa, as well as providing fresh perspectives to those interested in archaeological theory more generally.

Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000567342

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African Islands by Peter Mitchell Pdf

African Islands provides the first geographically and chronologically comprehensive overview of the archaeology of African islands. This book draws archaeologically informed histories of African islands into a single synthesis, focused on multiple issues of common interest, among them human impacts on previously uninhabited ecologies, the role of islands in the growth of long-distance maritime trade networks, and the functioning of plantation economies based on the exploitation of unfree labour. Addressing and repairing the longstanding neglect of Africa in general studies of island colonization, settlement, and connectivity, it makes a distinctively African contribution to studies of island archaeology. The availability of this much-needed synthesis also opens up a better understanding of the significance of African islands in the continent's past as a whole. After contextualizing chapters on island archaeology as a field and an introduction to the variety of Africa’s islands and the archaeological research undertaken on them, the book focuses on four themes: arriving, altering, being, and colonizing and resisting. An interdisciplinary approach is taken to these themes, drawing on a broad range of evidence that goes beyond material remains to include genetics, comparative studies of the languages, textual evidence and oral histories, island ecologies, and more. African Islands provides an up-to-date synthesis and account of all aspects of archaeological research on Africa’s islands for students and academics alike.

Author : Carolyn R. Thorp
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029469017

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Hunter-gatherers and Farmers by Carolyn R. Thorp Pdf

This study looks in general at the interaction between hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists across a perceived frontier, and more specifically, at the southwards movement of Bantu-speaking agriculturalists and their relationship with hunter-gatherers south and west of the Caldeon Valley, from the 16th to 19th century AD. Theoretical and practical approaches are taken from the ethnographic record and are applied to the investigation of evidence for the processes of interaction, cooperation and hostility across the frontier zone: stone tools, faunal and plant remains and ceramics.