Africa And Archaeology
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Author | : Akinwumi Ogundiran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2007-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Through interdisciplinary approaches to material culture, the dynamics of a comparative transatlantic archaeology is developed.
Author | : Peter Mitchell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 1077 |
Release | : 2013-07-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199569886 |
This Handbook provides a comprehensive 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. It includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates and situates the subject's contemporary practice.
Author | : Ann Brower Stahl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9781405137126 |
A landmark introduction to the archaeology of Africa that challenges misconceptions & claims about Africa's past and teaches students how to evaluate these claims. Provides an unprecedented and exciting introduction to the archaeology of AfricaChallenges misconceptions & claims about Africa's past and teaches students how to evaluate these claims Includes a thoughtful introduction that explores the contexts that have shaped archaeological knowledge of Africa's past Lays out research questions that have shaped the contours of African archaeology Comprised of chapters specifically written for thi.
Author | : Peter Mitchell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2002-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521633895 |
This book provides an archaeological synthesis of Southern Africa.
Author | : Peter R. Schmidt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2016-06-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317220749 |
This volume provides new insights into the distinctive contributions that community archaeology and heritage make to the decolonization of archaeological practice. Using innovative approaches, the contributors explore important initiatives which have protected and revitalized local heritage, initiatives that involved archaeologists as co-producers rather than leaders. These case studies underline the need completely reshape archaeological practice, engaging local and indigenous communities in regular dialogue and recognizing their distinctive needs, in order to break away from the top-down power relationships that have previously characterized archaeology in Africa. Community Archaeology and Heritage in Africa reflects a determined effort to change how archaeology is taught to future generations. Through community-based participatory approaches, archaeologists and heritage professionals can benefit from shared resources and local knowledge; and by sharing decision-making with members of local communities, archaeological inquiry can enhance their way of life, ameliorate their human rights concerns, and meet their daily needs to build better futures. Exchanging traditional power structures for research design and implementation, the examples outlined in this volume demonstrate the discipline’s exciting capacity to move forward to achieve its potential as a broader, more accessible, and more inclusive field.
Author | : D. W. Phillipson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2005-05-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521832365 |
Author | : Peter Mitchell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2022-04-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000567346 |
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 | : R. Blench |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780759104662 |
Scholarly work that attempts to match linguistic and archaeological evidence in precolonial Africa
Author | : Peter Robertshaw |
Publisher | : James Currey Publishers |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 0852550650 |
Archaeologists have been excavating in Africa for over 200 years. Contributors place the subject within the broader political, social and economic context. Not only have the attitudes and aspirations of both colonialism and nationalism been important influences on the development of African archaeology, but certain discoveries have also had considerable political impact. Contributors include J.D.Clark, Thurstan Shaw and Peter Shinnie, who have been at the forefront of African archaeology for 50 years.
Author | : O. Davies |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2014-10-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317605322 |
This book covers the whole range of West African archaeology to the arrival of the Portugese on the Guinea coast. Parts of this territory are very ill-explored, and emphasis is accordingly laid on the better-known regions: Ghana, Nigeria, the middle Niger valley and Western Senegal. After introducing the geographical background and chronology, subsequent chapters deal with the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and early iron ages, ending with a brief account of the protohistoric period. Published in 1967. Includes map and topographical index.