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• Winner of Winner - SAfA Best Book in African Archaeology 2014.

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Author:   Peter Mitchell (Professor of African Archaeology, Tutor and Fellow, St Hugh's College, Oxford, and Honorary Research Associate, GAES, University of the Witwatersrand) ,  Paul Lane (Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of York, and Honorary Research Associate, GAES, University of the Witwatersrand)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.10cm , Height: 5.90cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   2.284kg
ISBN:  

9780199569885

ISBN 10:   0199569886
Pages:   1078
Publication Date:   04 July 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Part 1: Introduction 1: Peter Mitchell and Paul Lane: Introducing African Archaeology Part II: Doing African Archaeology: Theory, Method, Practice 2: Graham Connah: Archaeological Practice in Africa: A Historical Perspective 3: Peter Schmidt: Oral History, Oral Traditions, and Archaeology: The Application of Structural Analyses 4: Roger Blench: Language, Linguistics, and Archaeology: Their Integration in the Study of African Prehistory 5: Scott MacEachern: Genetics and Archaeology 6: Ceri Ashley: Archaeology and Migration in Africa 7: Diane Lyons: Ethnoarchaeological Research in Africa 8: Christian Tryon: Studying African Stone Tools 9: Olivier Gosselain and Alexandre Livingstone-Smith): A Century of Ceramic Studies in Africa 10: Shadrack Chirikure: The Archaeology of African Metalworking 11: Benjamin Smith: Rock Art Research in Africa 12: Timothy Insoll: The Archaeology of Ritual and Religions in Africa 13: Stepahnie Wynne-Jones: Material Culture, Space, and Identity 14: Jeff Fleisher: Landscape Archaeology 15: Colin Breen: Maritime Archaeology in Africa 16: Noemie Arazi and Ibrahima Thiaw: Managing Africa's Archaeological Heritage 17: Chapurukha Kusimba and Carla Klehm: Museums and Public Archaeology in Africa 18: Amanda Esterhuysen and Paul Lane: Archaeology and Education 19: John Giblin: Politics, Ideology, and Indigenous Perspectives Part III: Becoming Human 20: Robert Foley: Hominin Evolution as the Context for African Prehistory 21: Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo: The Oldowan: Early Hominins and the Beginning of Human Culture 22: Mohamed Sahnouni, Sileshi Semaw and Michael Rogers: The African Acheulean: An Archaeological Summary 23: Marta Lahr: Genetic and Fossil Evidence for Modern Human Origins 24: Lawrence Barham: Beyond Modernity Part IV: Hunters, Gatherers, and Intensifiers: The Diversity of African Foragers 25: Lyn Wadley: Theoretical Frameworks for Understanding African Hunter-Gatherers 26: Marlize Lombard: Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa before 20,000 years ago 27: Laura Basell: The Middle Stone Age of Eastern Africa 28: Els Cornelissen: Hunting and Gathering in Africa's Tropical Forests at the end of the Pleistocene and in the Early Holocene 29: Elena Garcea: Hunter-Gatherers of the Nile Valley and the Sahara before 12,000 years ago 30: Nick Barton and Abdeljalil Bouzouggar: Hunter-Gatherers of the Maghreb: 25,000-6000 years ago 31: Barbara Barich: Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers of the Sahara and the Sahel 12,000-4000 years ago 32: Sibel Barut Kusimba: Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers of Eastern and South-Central Africa since 20,000 years ago 33: Peter Mitchell: Southern African Hunter-Gatherers of the last 25,000 years Part V: Food for Thought: The Archaeology of African Pastoralist and Farming Communities 34: Diane Gifford-Gonzalez and Olivier Hanotte: Domesticating Animals in Africa 35: Dorian Fuller and Elizabeth Hildebrand: Domesticating Plants in Africa 36: Savino Di Lernia: The Emergence and Spread of Herding in Northern Africa: A Critical Reappraisal 37: Randi Haaland and Gunnar Haaland: Early Farming Societies Along the Nile 38: Peter Breunig: Pathways to Food-Production in the Sahel 39: Matthew Curtis: Archaeological Evidence for the Emergence of Food-Production in the Horn of Africa 40: Paul Lane: The Archaeology of Pastoralism and Stock-Keeping in East Africa 41: Joanna Casey: The Stone to Metal Age in West Africa 42: Bertram Mapunda: The Appearance and Development of Metallurgy South of the Sahara 43: Pierre de Maret: Archaeologies of the Bantu Expansion 44: Karim Sadr: The Archaeology of Herding in Southernmost Africa 45: Peter Mitchell: Early Farming Communities of Southern and South-Central Africa 46: Daryl Stump: The Archaeology of Agricultural Intensification in Africa Part VI: Power, Prestige, and Consumption: African Towns and States and their Neighbours 47: Paul Sinclair: The Archaeology of African Urbanism 48: Cameron Monroe: The Archaeology of the Pre-Colonial State in Africa 49: Matthew Davies: The Archaeology of Clan- and Lineage-Based Societies in Africa 50: Ian Shaw: Pharaonic Egypt 51: Derek Welsby: Kerma and Kush and their Neighbours 52: Fares Moussa: Berber, Phoenicio-Punic, and Greek North Africa 53: Anna Leone and Fares Moussa: Roman Africa and the Sahara 54: David Edwards: Medieval and Post-Medieval States of the Nile Valley 55: David Phillipson: Complex Societies of the Eritrean/Ethiopian Highlands and their Neighbours 56: Said Ennahid: States, Trade, and Ethnicities in the Maghrib 57: Kevin MacDonald: Complex Societies, Urbanism, and Trade in the Western Sahel 58: Detlef Gronenborn: States and Trade in the Central Sahel 59: Akin Ogundiran: Towns and States of the West African Forest Belt 60: Pierre de Maret: Recent Farming Communities and States in the Congo Basin and its Environs 61: Andrew ReidNDREW REID: The Emergence of States in Great Lakes Africa 62: Adria Laviolette: The Swahili World 63: Innocent Pikirayi: The Zimbabwe Culture and its Neighbours: Origins, Development, and Consequences of Social Complexity in Southern Africa 64: Alex Schoeman: Southern African Late Farming Communities 65: Chantal Radimilahy: Madagascar from Initial Settlement to the Growth of Kingdoms Part VII: African Societies and the Modern World System 66: Intisar El Zein: The Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire in Northern and Northeastern Africa 67: Natalie Swanepoel: Contexts of Interaction: The Archaeology of European Exploration and Expansion in Western and Southern Africa in Comparative Perspective 68: Ibrahima Thiaw and François Richard: An archaeological Perspective on West Africa and the Post-1500 Atlantic World 69: Ken Kelly: Connecting the Archaeologies of the Atlantic World: Africa and the African Diasporas 70: Sarah croucher: The Archaeology of Colonial Encounters in Eastern Africa Index

Reviews

The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology is a great source of reference to work with. Especially for a professional who specializes in regions outside Africa, it represents a useful starting point to gain a comprehensive, though necessarily selective, overview of key topics. * Monika Baumanova, European Journal of Archaeology * Mitchell and Lane have brought together an impressive volume of lucidly written short essays accompanied by substantive bibliographies that provide useful pathways into current literature. * Ann Stahl, University of Victoria, Canada * Peter Mitchell and Paul Lane can be congratulated on successfully identifying contributors with both general and site-specific knowledge and taking the time to cross-reference the chapters and provide a comprehensive index. It will become one of the most useful books on my shelves. * Janette Deacon, Landscape History * The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology is an essential purchase for Africanist archaeologists and for college and university libraries. * John J. Shea, Journal of Anthropological Research * The chapters are comprehensive and authoritative with successive sections on theory, method and practice; becoming human; African forager, pastoralist and farming communities; towns and states; andAfrican societies and the modernworld system. * Martin Hall, South African Archaeological Bulletin *

Peter Mitchell and Paul Lane can be congratulated on successfully identifying contributors with both general and site-specific knowledge and taking the time to cross-reference the chapters and provide a comprehensive index. It will become one of the most useful books on my shelves. Janette Deacon, Landscape History

The chapters are comprehensive and authoritative with successive sections on theory, method and practice; becoming human; African forager, pastoralist and farming communities; towns and states; andAfrican societies and the modernworld system. * Martin Hall, South African Archaeological Bulletin * The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology is an essential purchase for Africanist archaeologists and for college and university libraries. * John J. Shea, Journal of Anthropological Research * Peter Mitchell and Paul Lane can be congratulated on successfully identifying contributors with both general and site-specific knowledge and taking the time to cross-reference the chapters and provide a comprehensive index. It will become one of the most useful books on my shelves. * Janette Deacon, Landscape History * Mitchell and Lane have brought together an impressive volume of lucidly written short essays accompanied by substantive bibliographies that provide useful pathways into current literature. * Ann Stahl, University of Victoria, Canada * The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology is a great source of reference to work with. Especially for a professional who specializes in regions outside Africa, it represents a useful starting point to gain a comprehensive, though necessarily selective, overview of key topics. * Monika Baumanova, European Journal of Archaeology *

Author Information

Peter Mitchell is Professor of African Archaeology, Tutor and Fellow at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and Honorary Research Associate, GAES, at the University of the Witwatersrand. From 2004 until 2006 he served as President of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, and since 2006 has been Honrary Secretary of the British Institute in Eastern Africa. Paul Lane is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of York and Honary Research Associate, GAES, at the University of the Witwatersrand. From 2008 to 2010 he served as President of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists.

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