BAR Publishing, 2021. — 190 p. — (BAR International Series 3020/African Archaeology 93). This research aims to reconstruct the dynamics of exploitation and management of animal resources during the Middle Iron Age in the northern part of the Limpopo region (South Africa). The book offers an interpretation of faunal remains from two sites: Mapungubwe, an important regional...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 388 p. Alexandria Antiqua: A Topographical Catalogue and Reconstruction is an attempt to find a way through an archaeological labyrinth of fragmentary evidence. Taking into account the last two centuries of systematic research into the topography of the ancient city while integrating the latest discoveries, the volume aims to catalogue the archaeological...
Translated by Alan Houghton Brodrick. — London: Hutchinson, 1957. — 456 p. At first sight, Africa looks as though its immense continental mass, devoid of high mountain barriers, offers easy communications and that there is nothing much to hamper Man’s movements. We may conclude that human migrations were not difficult in Africa so that, in each prehistorical period, there was a...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2020. — 260 p. This book provides a full up to date account of the evidence relating to the Middle Stone Age in Nigeria and the other countries of West Africa. It relies upon the author’s own fieldwork and extensive personal knowledge of the region and its archaeology. It is abundantly illustrated with maps, photographs, and drawings. The emphasis is...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 204 p. — (BAR International Series 3073). En este libro se presentan los resultados obtenidos a partir del análisis arqueológico de las huellas de uso documentadas en el material lítico asociado al yacimiento achelense de Thiongo Korongo (1,353±0,35 Ma.) (Garganta de Olduvai, Tanzania), así como los datos registrados tras el desarrollo y estudio de la...
Routledge, 1995. — 896 p. Africa has a vibrant past. It emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and highly complicated interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising an enormous diversity of economic and social strategies in an Extraordinary range of environmental situations. At long last the archaeology of Africa has revealed enough of Africa's unwritten past to...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 623 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-0-521-84796-4. Africa has the longest record – some 2.5 million years – of human occupation of any continent on earth. For nearly all of this time, its inhabitants have made tools from stone and have acquired their food from its rich, wild plant and animal resources. Archaeological research...
Springer Cham, 2023. — CXLV, 2146 p., 18 b/w ill., 132 ill. in colour. — ISBN 978-3031202902. This handbook showcases an Africa-wide compendium of Stone Age archaeological sites and methodological advances that have improved our understanding of hominin lifeways and biogeography in the continent. The focal time spans the Pleistocene Epoch (c. 2.5 million–11,700 years ago)...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 206 p. — (Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 92). Jebel Moya (south-central Sudan) is the largest known pastoral cemetery in sub- Saharan Africa with more than 3100 excavated human burials. This research revises our understanding of Jebel Moya and its context. After reviewing previous applications of social complexity theory to mortuary data, new...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. — 245 p. — (Contributions to the Archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant 17). This edited volume brings together studies on the management of resources in Bronze Age Nubia by scholars working in various parts of Sudan. The collected papers cover a wide range of topics, including, among others, the extraction and processing of gold from the...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 151 p. — (BAR International Series 2768). The results of the excavation of two Paleolithic sites on the Nile in the Republic of the Sudan, undertaken from the autumn of 1965 into the spring of 1966, are presented in this report. Artifacts from Khor Abu Anga and Magendohli, currently housed in the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Simon Fraser...
Poznan Archaeological Museum, 2011. — 455 p. — (Studies in African Archaeology 10). Lech Krzyżaniak - Changes in the natural environment between 8000 and 3000 BC Wojciech T. J. Stankowski - The morphogenetic aspects of the site of Kadero Marek Chłodnicki - Prehistoric settlement Agnieszka Krzyżaniak - Neolithic cemetery Agnieszka Krzyżaniak, Lech Krzyżaniak - Meroitic cemetery...
Poznan Archaeological Museum, 2020. — 430 s. — (Studies in African Archaeology 6). Ogólna charakterystyka materiałów źródłowych Analiza technologiczno–typologiczna ceramiki Analiza chronologiczna materiałów ceramicznych Klasyfikacja typologiczna ceramiki Geneza i rozwój neolitycznej wytwórczości garncarskiej w środkowym Sudanie Miejsce ceramiki środkowego Sudanu w wytwórczości...
Praeger Publishers, 1970. — (Ancient Peoples and Places series, Vol. 72). — 302 pp., 48 pls., 62 figs., 10 maps. The richness and variety of present-day African culture can be understood only through knowledge and appreciation of the history of the peoples themselves, of the evolutionary processes that have taken place, and of the temporal and ecological relationships that have...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 256 p. Contrary to much perceived wisdom, the Sahara is a rich and varied tapestry of diverse environments that sustain an array of ecosystems. Throughout its history, the Sahara has been a stage for human evolution, with human habitation, movement and lifeways shaped by a dynamic environment of successive phases of relative humidity and aridity driven by...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 256 p. Contrary to much perceived wisdom, the Sahara is a rich and varied tapestry of diverse environments that sustain an array of ecosystems. Throughout its history, the Sahara has been a stage for human evolution, with human habitation, movement and lifeways shaped by a dynamic environment of successive phases of relative humidity and aridity driven by...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 505 p. This book presents in detail the results of archaeological research carried out by the KongoKing project in the former northern provinces of the Kongo Kingdom, currently located in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Of all the great kingdoms that flourished in Africa, the Kongo is one of the most famous. It remains an important historical and...
Libreville-Paris: Centre culturel français Saint-Exupéry; Sépia, 1995. — 380 p. — ISBN: 2-907888-43-9. Ce livre ramène à la chaleur du soleil une richesse culturelle restée si longtemps enfouie dans les profondeurs du sol. Le Gabon d'aujourd'hui ainsi que celui de demain sera toujours l'oeuvre de l'Homme, héritier de son passé... Cet ensemble très riche structure le volume et...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963. — 382 p. It has been claimed for East Africa that it was the cradle of the human race, a claim which the amazing discoveries of Dr. and Mrs. Leakey at the Olduvai Gorge and other sites during the present decade have gone far to justify. This prehistorically rich volcanic region has preserved unique fossil evidence of the earliest hominids, of...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 190 p. — (BAR International Series 2857). The Bono Manso region of central Ghana was occupied from the late 12th to mid-18th centuries CE, spanning much of the zenith of the sub-Saharan and Atlantic Trade eras. Bono Manso was a nascent urban centre near a primary trade route that linked the Malian city of Jenne with the Akan goldfields. By integrating...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 109 p. — (BAR International Series 2821). This book provides an account of the excavation of a single house at the Nubian site of Qasr Ibrim in 1986. The work provided a microcosm that investigated residential continuity in the context of cultural change, at a place remarkable for the survival of organic evidence. House 1037 should be considered in the...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 424 p. This new revised edition of African Civilizations re-examines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in Africa over the last six thousand years. Unlike the two previous editions, it is not confined to tropical Africa but considers the whole continent. Graham Connah focuses upon the archaeological research of two key...
Routledge, 2004. — 208 p. Forgotten Africa introduces the general reader and beginning student to Africa’s past, emphasizing those aspects only known or best known from archaeological and related evidence. It covers four million years of history across the continent, examining important aspects of Africa’s momentous human story. The author is concerned to raise public...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 98 p. — (BAR International Series 2938/African Archaeology 91). This book is an original study of very large pots in parts of Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria. Found in excavations and surface fieldwork, they have been attributed to the So, a group of pre-Islamic inhabitants of the area before the sixteenth century AD, who have become mythologised as giants....
Archaeopress, 2024. — 223 p. — (Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication 30). This volume presents findings on the bioarchaeological remains from the Sudan Archaeological Research Society’s 1997-2018 excavations at Kawa, focusing on human and animal bones. Human skeletons were carefully excavated, documented, and preserved by physical anthropologists and local experts,...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 240 p. The Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Afric a provides the first detailed description of the prehistory of the Loango coast of west-central Africa over the course of more than 3,000 years. The archaeological data presented in this volume comes from a pivotal area through which, as linguistic and historical reconstructions have...
Peeters Pub & Booksellers, 2022. — 166 p. The Forts of North Omdurman volume presents research aimed at establishing when and why a group of nine forts were built in Upper Nubia (modern Sudan). These defences resemble late Roman fortlets commonly found in the Egyptian Eastern Desert and elsewhere in the Roman Empire. The nine forts were irregularly positioned within a 550km...
Peeters, 2022. — 169 p. — (British Museum Publications on Egypt and Sudan 14). The Forts of North Omdurman volume presents research aimed at establishing when and why a group of nine forts were built in Upper Nubia (modern Sudan). These defences resemble late Roman fortlets commonly found in the Egyptian Eastern Desert and elsewhere in the Roman Empire. The nine forts were...
Harvard University Press, 1950. — 254 p. The archaeological presentation of results from Harvard University-Boston Museum of fine arts joint expedition in Sudan (1914-1920). The excavations had been led by George Andrew Reisner (1867-1942) and Dows Dunham (1890-1984). Nubian pyramids are pyramids that were built by the rulers of the ancient Kushite kingdoms. The area of the...
Boston Museum of fine arts, 1955. — 499 p. The archaeological presentation of results from Harvard University-Boston Museum of fine arts joint expedition in Sudan (1914-1920). The excavations had been led by George Andrew Reisner (1867-1942) and Dows Dunham (1890-1984). Nubian pyramids are pyramids that were built by the rulers of the ancient Kushite kingdoms. The area of the...
Boston Museum of fine arts, 1957. — 341 p. The archaeological presentation of results from Harvard University-Boston Museum of fine arts joint expedition in Sudan (1914-1920). The excavations had been led by George Andrew Reisner (1867-1942) and Dows Dunham (1890-1984). Nubian pyramids are pyramids that were built by the rulers of the ancient Kushite kingdoms. The area of the...
Boston Museum of fine arts, 1963. — 471 p. The archaeological presentation of results from Harvard University-Boston Museum of fine arts joint expedition in Sudan (1914-1920). The excavations had been led by George Andrew Reisner (1867-1942) and Dows Dunham (1890-1984). Nubian pyramids are pyramids that were built by the rulers of the ancient Kushite kingdoms. The area of the...
Archaeopress Publishing Ltd., 2020. — 468 p. Of the Nubian Archaeological Campaigns responding to the construction of the Aswan High Dam, the survey and excavations carried out within Sudanese Nubia represent the most substantial achievement of the larger enterprise. Many components of the larger project of the UNESCO – Sudan Antiquities Service Survey have been published, in...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. — 163 S. — (The Asyut Project 14). Der wohl wichtigste Faktor für die überregionale Bedeutung des Gebel Assiut al-gharbi in der Spätantike und im Mittelalter war die Eremitage des berühmten Asketen Johannes von Lykopolis, des Sehers der Thebais, der sich im 4. Jahrhundert n.Chr. in den drei grössten pharaonischen Grabanlagen niedergelassen hatte....
Brill, 2020. — 935 p. — (Harvard Egyptological Studies 13). The three-volume publication of the results of archaeological excavations at the UNESCO heritage site of El-Zuma in Sudan, investigated by PCMA University of Warsaw and the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums in Khartoum, presents an Early Makurian elite tumuli cemetery from the 5th–6th centuries AD. This...
Springer, 2020. — 212 p. This volume addresses the Out-of-Africa dispersals of the earliest hominins and early anatomically modern humans, the last semi-sedentary, pottery-bearing hunters-fishers-gatherers, the early food producers and users of domestic plants and animals either local or imported from the Near East, and the presuppositions of the rise of the kingdoms of Kerma,...
Springer, 2020. — 212 p. This volume addresses the Out-of-Africa dispersals of the earliest hominins and early anatomically modern humans, the last semi-sedentary, pottery-bearing hunters-fishers-gatherers, the early food producers and users of domestic plants and animals either local or imported from the Near East, and the presuppositions of the rise of the kingdoms of Kerma,...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 586 p. This ground-breaking volume explores a series of inter-related key themes in Saharan archaeology and history. Migration and identity formation can both be approached from the perspective of funerary archaeology, using the combined evidence of burial structures, specific rites and funerary material culture, and integrated methods of...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 300 p. — (BAR International Series 2839). This book describes the broad network of studies which were involved in three years of archaeological research in the southern Tigray (Ethiopia), at the Mifsas Baḥri site. The uniqueness of this work lies in the subject of our research and in the final results. Mifsas Baḥri is the southernmost Late Aksumite (c....
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1971. — 151 p. — (Supplément aux Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte 24). In 1960 Vittorio Veronese, then Director General of the UNESCO, addressed an appeal to members of the scientific organisations to help in saving the great heritage of civilisation, which were to disappear under the stored water behind the High Dam at...
Brill, 2019. — xviii, 802 p. — (Journal of African Archaeology Monograph Series 13). In Two Thousand Years in Dendi, Northern Benin an international team examines a little-known part of the Niger River valley, West Africa, over the longue durée. This area, known as Dendi, has often been portrayed as the crossroads of major West African medieval empires but this understanding...
University of Michigan Press, 2002. — 288 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 35). A thorough review of the important archaeological sites on the Chadian Plain, including Houlouf, which the author excavated 1980–1990.
University of Michigan Press, 2006. — 179 p. West African Awdaghost (Tegdaoust) emerged as a vital medieval trade center before its decline in the sixteenth century AD. Extensively excavated and accompanied by a large body of published material, Awdaghost provides a unique opportunity for the application of household archaeology to a West African settlement. By examining the...
Peeters, 2018. — 935 p. — (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 273; Publications de la mission archéologique suisse à Kerma 1). Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference for Nubian Studies, Neuchâtel, 1st-6th September 2014 The four-yearly International Conference of the Society for Nubian Studies is currently the most important scientific meeting on the archaeology...
Poznan Archaeological Museum, 2015. — 461 p. — (Studies in African Archaeology 14). Hassan Hussein Idris Ahmed - Seventy years of prehistoric work in Sudan (1940-2010) Annett Dittrich - Dating the Neolithisation process in the Middle Nile valley: a critical approach Agnieszka Mączyńska - Lower and Upper Egypt in the 4th millennium BC. The development of craft specialisation and...
Poznan Archaeological Museum, 2012. — 504 p. — (Studies in African Archaeology 11). Joanne M. Rowland, Mohamed Hamdan - The Holocene Evolution of the Quesna Turtle Back. Geological Evolution and Archaeological Relationships Within the Nile Delta Penelope Wilson, Gregory Gilbert - Prehistoric Sais. Results from the Western Nile Delta Floodplain Marek Chłodnicki, Krzysztof M....
James Currey, 2022. — 545 p. The first full-length examination of the archaeology and history of the Namib Desert. This is a story of human survival over the last one million years in the Namib Desert - one of the most hostile environments on Earth. Namib reveals the resilience and ingenuity of desert communities and provides a vivid picture of our species' response to climate...
Poznan Archaeological Museum, 2006. — 1100 p. — (Studies in African Archaeology 9). Abdelrahim M. Khabir - Some New Reclections on Islang and Nofalab Neolithic Sites in Khartoum Province, Sudan Przemysław Bobrowski, Maciej Jórdeczka - A survey in the Wadi Awatib near Naga Louis Chaix - New data about rural economy in the Kerma culture the site of Gism el-Arba (Sudan) Mauro...
Poznan Archaeological Museum, 1989. — 555 p. — (Studies in African Archaeology 2). Albert J. Ammerman - The use of Landsat imagery for reconnaissance work in the Sahara Hugh Doggett - A suggested history of the crops common to Ethiopia and India Willem van Neer - Fishing along the prehistoric Nile Kimball Morgan Banks - The appearance and spread of cattle-keeping in Saharan...
Poznan Archaeological Museum, 1993. — 504 p. — (Studies in African Archaeology 4). Graeme Barker - The UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey: environmental change and human settlement in Tripolitania Krystyna Wasylikowa - Plant macrofossils from the archaeological sites of Uan Muhuggiag and Ti-n-Torha, Southwestern Libya Mieczysław F. Pazdur - Evaluation of radiocarbon dates of organic...
Poznan Archaeological Museum, 1996. — 500 p. — (Studies in African Archaeology 5). Andrea Manzo - Social complexity and cultural contacts in Northeastern Africa between 3000 and 1000 B.C.: a provisional model Andrew B. Smith - The Near Eastern connection II: cultural contacts with the Nile Delta and the Sahara Barbara E. Barich, Barbaro Cecilia Conati, Carlo Giraudi - The...
Poznan Archaeological Museum, 2000. — 280 p. — (Studies in African Archaeology 7). Barbara E. Barich, Fekri A. Hassan - A stratified sequence from Wadi el-Obeiyd, Farafra new data on subsistence and chronology of the Egyptian Western Desert Heiko Riemer - Regenfeld 96/1: Great Sand Sea and the question of human settlement on whaleback dunes Louis Chaix, Martine Faure, Claude...
Poznan Archaeological Museum, 1992. — 260 s. — (Studies in African Archaeology 3). Wczesnoneolityczne stanowisko Kadero 1 Kwestia gospodarki w późnym paleolicie (około 40000 - 8000 p.n.e.) Okres rozwiniętej gospodarki przyswajalnej (około 8000 - 4900 p.n.e.) Początki gospodarki wytwórczej (około 4900 - 3800 p.n.e.) Przemiany gospodarcze w czwartym tysiącleciu przed naszą erą...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 1480 p. Sous la direction de: Luc Laporte, Matar Ndiaye, Adrien Delvoye, Jean-Paul Cros, Aziz Ballouche, Pierre Lamotte, Selim Djouad, Laurent Quesnel Cet ouvrage collectif rend compte des études et travaux archéologiques menés au sein de la nécropole aux ruines mégalithiques de Wanar, au Sénégal, entre 2008 et 2017. Le sanctuaire de Wanar fait partie,...
Libreville: Centre international des civilisations bantu; Saint-Maur: Sépia, 1991. — 268 p., ill. — ISBN: 2907888110. Cet ouvrage est une synthèse effectuée pour l'exposition "Aux origines de l'Afrique centrale". Après une présentation du cadre naturel et des paléoenvironnements, les données archéologiques de chaque pays sont présentées (Cameroun, Centrafrique, Guinée...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. — 556 p. — (Meroitica: Schriften zur altsudanesischen Geschichte und Archäologie 27). The Bayuda is the vast arid region south of the large S-bend of the Nile in Sudan. Although being a desert, several valleys - the largest amongst them the Wadi Abu Dom and the Wadi Muqqadam - collect the seasonal rainfall and enable limited habitation. Human...
Peeters, 2021. — 191 p. — (Polish Publications in Mediterranean Archaeology 3). The volume is a study of a massive set of funerary data from an important site in a city in Egypt, Alexandria, that remains comparatively little known archaeologically for the Islamic period. More than 60 years of research at the cemetery on Kom el-Dikka, carried out by a couple of generations of...
Soleb, 2021. — 296 p. Cinquante ans d’archéologie française au Soudan. Le Soudan est une passion française. Ses vestiges archéologiques, d’une beauté intemporelle, nourrissent en France une fascination de plus de deux siècles. Elle s’exprime par une étroite coopération dont le maître d’œuvre est depuis 1969 la section française de la direction des Antiquités du Soudan (Sfdas)....
Struik Nature, 2022. — 176 p. Across the face of southern Africa are more than 460 remarkable stone palaces, once the abodes of kings. Some are small, others ramble, but many are absolutely astonishing: all are the legacy of kingdoms past. Palaces of Stone brings to life the story of these early African societies, from AD 900 to approximately 1850. Some, such as Great Zimbabwe...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 95 p. — (Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 94). Eastern Sudan, like other regions far away from the Nile valley, has often been overlooked historically on account of a kind of prejudice towards areas lacking in monumental or urban remains or evidence of any literary production. Despite the relevance of the deserts and marginal areas becoming...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 370 p. The Archaeological Survey of Nubia was one of the earliest and most extensive studies of the population of ancient Nubia. Beginning in 1907 in southern Egypt, the excavations ran for four seasons and involved the excavation of 151 cemeteries. Publication of the first season’s work included an in-depth anatomical study of the cemetery populations...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 1076 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–956988–5. 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...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 137 p. — (BAR International Series 2952/African Archaeology 92). This book combines GIS aided landscape analysis with an examination of both historical and ethnoarchaeological data to provide new insights on the link between water sources and the built environment at Great Zimbabwe. The book interrogates the centrality of water in shaping spatial and...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 216 p. — (BAR International Series 3072/African Archaeology 95). This book uses macrobotanical analysis (charcoal and seeds/grains) from Later Stone Age sites in Botswana and Namibia to address past climatic and environmental conditions in Southern Africa during the Holocene period, c. 2000 BP. One of its main objectives is to comprehend subsistence and...
Brill, 2017. — xxiv, 422 p. — (Journal of African Archaeology Monograph Series 12). Essouk-Tadmekka presents the first archaeological exploration of one of the most important market towns on the trans-Saharan camel-caravan routes in the early Islamic period, supplying West African gold, slaves, and ivory to the Mediterranean world. Excavation of Essouk-Tadmekka’s ruins – in...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 175 p. — (BAR International Series 3081/African Archaeology 97). Ce livre étudie les vestiges archéologiques des fortifications endogènes du Sénégal oriental pendant la traite négrière atlantique. Dans sa première partie, il aborde les généralités en traitant des déterminants de l'implantation des fortifications en Afrique de l'Ouest. Suivant une...
Peeters, 2021. — 298 p. — (Polish Publications in Mediterranean Archaeology 1). Old Dongola was the capital city of the Medieval Christian kingdom of Makuria (modern Sudan) from the early 6th to the 14th century. Although the royal court abandoned the city in 1364, it remained an important urban center with extensive residential quarters functioning on and around the citadel...
Peeters, 2022. — 414 p. — (Polish Publications in Mediterranean Archaeology 6). Old Dongola was the capital city of the Medieval Christian kingdom of Makuria (modern Sudan) from the early 6th to the 14th century. Although the royal court abandoned the city in 1364, it remained an important urban center with extensive residential quarters functioning on and around the citadel...
Mauhaus Publishing, 2012. — 460 p. This volume is the product of long gestation comprising over two decades of persistent but intermittent fieldwork implemented and directed by the two authors. Their survey concession encompasses some 80 km on both the banks of the River Nile that, together with their associated islands, encompass the Mahas region of Middle Nubia. In contrast...
Peeters, 2021. — 170 p. — (Polish Publications in Mediterranean Archaeology 5). The 5th millennium BC megalithic ceremonial complex at Wadi Khashab in the Eastern Desert of Egypt is located almost directly in the middle of the Eastern Desert, on a wadi trail connecting the Valley of the Nile with the Red Sea. The volume presents the results of three seasons of excavation of...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 197 p. — (BAR International Series 2859). Large-scale networks of interaction and exchange have existed on the East African Swahili coast for at least the past two millennia, linking coastal populations with South Asia, the Middle East and the African Interior. The connections coastal inhabitants nurtured along those networks were crucial to the...
Third Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 406 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-83236-6. Research in Africa is now accepted as an integral part of global archaeological studies. As well as providing archaeologists with their oldest material, Africa is also widely recognised as the birthplace of modern humans and their characteristic cultural patterns. Archaeological study of...
Nairobi: British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1976. — 241 p. — (Memoir Nomber Six of the British Institute in Eastern Africa). This book presents detailed reports on archaeological excavations conducted in eastern Zambia in 1966, 1970 and 1971, and on prehistoric sites visited but less intensively investigated during the same period. The data collected are used as the basis for a...
Cambridge University Press, 1985. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — 246 p. — ISBN: 0-521-25234-2. This book provides a concise and up-to-date survey Africa, from the origin of mankind until the last few centuries. Written in non-technical language, it is fully illustrated with photographs, maps and line drawings, and it has a comprehensive bibliography. Egypt and North Africa...
Second Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 1993. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — 284 p. — ISBN: 0-521-44103-X. David Phillipson has expanded and updated his survey of the archaeology of Africa in a lucid, fully illustrated account which extends from the origins of humanity to the time of European colonization. Egypt and North Africa are considered in their African...
James Currey / Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2014. — 304 p. This well-illustrated book provides an up-to-date survey of a key period in the history of northern Ethiopia and south-central Eritrea. It is accessible to the general reader, but its comprehensive references and guidance to controversies and research needs will render it invaluable to specialists and students. It considers...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 117 p. — (BAR International Series 2948). The Napatan Cylindrical Sheaths provides a complete analysis of the precious finds discovered at the royal cemetery of Nuri (Sudan) for the first time. This volume critically analyses translations of the inscriptions and identifies the divinities occurring on the cylinder sheaths, which were important in Kushite...
BAR Publishing, 2004. — 379 p. — (BAR International Series 1216/Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 58). Mon sujet de doctorat portait sur les enceintes urbaines et les forts présents sur le littoral Est-africain. Mon objectif était d’abord de retracer la genèse des fortifications du Xe siècle au début du XIXe siècle, depuis l'islamisation et l'apogée des cités-Etats...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 476 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 58). Fino ad oggi Aïn Wassel è l'unico sito rurale dell'Africa Proconsularis che è stato scavato con metodo stratigrafico, pubblicato in dettaglio e contestualizzato grazie al survey archeologico della regione circostante. L'interpretazione della sequenza stratigrafica dei 252 m2 scavati ha permesso di determinare...
London : J. Currey ; Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, 1990. — 378 p. This is the first history of the development of the subject which is the major source of information on Africa’s past. Archaeologists have excavated in the continent for 200 years. The pace of this research has quickened over the last half-century.
University of Philadelphia Press, 1991. — 160 p. Sadr takes as his starting point Kroeber's "symbiosis" model for nomadism, which stresses linkages between nomads and state-level societies. He prefers this to the more popular "ecological" model, which stresses nomadism's direct economic advantages in particular environments. There are, then, different kinds of pastoralism:...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 182 p. — (BAR International Series 3062/African Archaeology 94). Abubakar Sule Sani’s pioneering book combines archaeological, ethnographic and historical data to construct a compelling narrative about the people of the Bauchi region in northern Nigeria. It deploys a social theory of frontier to understand how Borno and other Hausa states impacted on the...
Left Coast Press, 2014. — 288 p. This volume documents the analysis of excavated historical archaeological collections at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. The corpus provides a rich picture of life and times at this distant outpost of an immense Dutch seaborne empire during the contact period. Representing over three decades of excavation, conservation, and analysis, the...
Left Coast Press, 2014. — 288 p. This volume documents the analysis of excavated historical archaeological collections at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. The corpus provides a rich picture of life and times at this distant outpost of an immense Dutch seaborne empire during the contact period. Representing over three decades of excavation, conservation, and analysis, the...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 415 p. — (Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication 29). This volume presents the pottery from Sudan Archaeological Research Society excavations at the site of Kawa, Northern Dongola Reach, between 1997 and 2018, fully illustrated with photographs and line drawings. This is the third in the series focusing on the fieldwork conducted at this...
Blackwell Publishing, 2005. — xv + 419 p. — (Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology). — ISBN: 1-4051-0155-5. 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 Africa; - Challenges...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 776 p. — (Trans-Saharan Archaeology 3). The themes of sedentarisation, urbanisation and state formation are fundamental ones in the archaeology of many diverse parts of the world but have been little explored in relation to early societies of the Saharan zone. Moreover, the possibility has rarely been considered that the precocious...
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2022. — 396 p. — (Nubian Expedition 11). This book presents a comprehensive corpus of beads and pendants found during excavations undertaken by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago between 1960 and 1968 at the Lower Nubian sites of Qustul, Adindan, Serra East, Dorginarti, Ballana, and Kalabsha and stored in the...
Archaeopress, 2015. — 177 p. This volume is a detailed gazetteer of fish-salting production in the northwest Maghreb in antiquity. It consists of a catalogue of fish-salting sites in addition to catalogues of other related resources that are necessary for the production and trans-shipment of the industry's products: salt and amphorae kilns. The gazetteer is intended to serve as...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 135 p. — (BAR International Series 2755/Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 90). This monograph examines Swahili plant subsistence and food production patterns through the analysis of macrobotanical remains from four archaeological sites on Pemba Island, Tanzania, dating to A.D. 700-1600. Specifically towns and villages are compared before and...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 281 p. — (Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication 26). This volume is the first of several devoted to publishing the results of the Sudan Archaeological Research Society’s surveys and excavations in the region of the Fourth Cataract. This, a component of the Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project, was conducted along a 40km stretch of the...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 470 p. — (Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication 27). The first of a set of three volumes publishing the excavations at the site of Kawa, Northern Dongola Reach, between 1997 and 2018 by the Sudan Archaeological Research Society. Volume I contains a detailed study of the excavations carried out in Areas A, B, C, and F, as well as the temenos...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 465 p. — (Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication 28). This volume documents the Sudan Archaeological Research Society's extensive excavations and surveys at Kawa, a prominent ancient site in Sudan's Northern Dongola Reach. Conducted between 1997 and 2018, this research involved detailed topographical mapping and excavation across multiple sites,...
BAR Publishing, 2003. — 157 p. — (BAR International Series 1110/Sudan Archaeological Research Society 10). In December 1952, the new Egyptian Government decided to construct the Aswan High Dam. In the late 1970s and 1980s the construction of a dam at the Fourth Cataract, known as the Merowe Dam, was again mooted (Hakim 1993, 1-2), while another was proposed at the Kajbar rapids...
Academic Press, 1980. — xviii + 414 p. — (Studies in Archaeology). — ISBN: 0-12-743960-9. The Prehistory of the Eastern Sahara is more than a treatise on Saharan archeology. Drs. Wendorf and Schild present the results of the Combined Prehistoric Expedition, a blend of geological, paleoecological, botanical, and zoological research. The Combined Prehistoric Expedition, studying...
Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998. — xv, 356 p. — ISBN: 0-86543-609-6. Historical archaeology is experiencing a surge of interest in West Africa, after decades of relative obscurity. The papers in this volume represent the most recent findings by scholars who are committed to melding written history, oral tradition, and archaeological data into a dynamic understanding of...
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1993. — 314 p. — (Nubian Expedition 10). In 1961/62 and 1963/64, the Oriental Nubian Expedition excavated cemeteries, the ancient fortress, and the late Christian town of Serra East in northern Sudan. This first volume reports on ancient burials and outlying structures. In the New Kingdom, Serra East was the site of an...
The University of Chicago Press, 1986. — 538 p. — (Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition 3). This volume is the first of twelve scheduled to present the materials excavated under the direction of Professor Keith C. Seele in a concession that extended from the Abu Simbel temples to the Sudan frontier in two seasons, 1962-63 and 1963-64. It presents, in detail, Cemetery L at...
The University of Chicago Press, 1989. — 226 p. — (Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition 4). This volume, the second to publish the results of Seele's two seasons of excavations in Nubia, presents Neolithic, A-Group, and Post-A-Group remains from Qustul, Ballana, and Adindan. Neolithic remains were only found in a cave behind the village of Adindan and consist of sherds, some...
The University of Chicago Press, 1983. — 394 p. — (Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition 5). Although C-Group sites in the area had been thought to be poor or plundered, Cemeteries T, K, and U yielded large amounts of undisturbed material that provided a valuable opportunity to check the chronology of C-Group by plotting the occurrence of various objects and practices in the...
The University of Chicago Press, 1992. — 516 p. — (Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition 6). During the New Kingdom Nubia was more closely tied to Egypt than in any other period of its history. For much of that time, Nubia was quite prosperous and that prosperity was reflected in Egyptian-influenced burials. The Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition found many burials of this...
The University of Chicago Press, 1990. — 128 p. — (Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition 7). A number of burials excavated by the Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition revealed pottery, objects, and burial customs that are dated to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty and Napatan periods (ca. 750-200 b.c.), a poorly known phase in Lower Nubia. The rulers of this great age of Kush left...
The University of Chicago Press, 1991. — 510 p. — (Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition 8.1). This volume, the fifth to publish the results of Seele's two seasons of excavations in Nubia, presents Meroitic materials from two large cemeteries and a small settlement at the southern end of Egyptian Nubia. The compactness of the cemeteries and diversity of their materials...
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1991. — 424 p. — (Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition 8.2). This volume, the fifth to publish the results of Seele's two seasons of excavations in Nubia, presents Meroitic materials from two large cemeteries and a small settlement at the southern end of Egyptian Nubia. The compactness of the cemeteries and diversity of their...
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1991. — 542 p. — (Nubian Expedition 9). The excavations at these cemeteries provide a full range of X-Group objects, dated to the fourth through sixth centuries a.d. Of special interest is the military equipment, including many decorated quivers, parts of several unusual light composite bows, and a saddle date to the late...
Пер. с англ. Г. С. Киселева. Послесл. Л. Е. Куббеля. — М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства, 1988. — 207 с. с ил. — (По следам исчезнувших культур Востока). Данная книга является переводом коллективной монографии, подготовленной зарубежными африканистами-археологами и изданной в Австрии под редакцией профессора Ф. Ван Нотена. Она представляет собой...
Пер. с англ. Киселева Г.С., М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы изд-ва «Наука», 1977. - 264 с. с ил. Послесловие Берзиной С.Я. Профессор Калифорнийского университета Дж.Д.Кларк — один из крупнейших современных африканистов. В данной книге автор рассматривает историю Африки за период от двух миллионов лет назад до начала нашей эры. Он описывает материальную культуру и...
Пер. с англ. Киселева Г.С., М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы изд-ва «Наука», 1977. - 264 с. с ил. Послесловие Берзиной С.Я. Профессор Калифорнийского университета Дж.Д.Кларк — один из крупнейших современных африканистов. В данной книге автор рассматривает историю Африки за период от двух миллионов лет назад до начала нашей эры. Он описывает материальную культуру и...
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы изд-ва «Наука», 1977. - 262 с.
Профессор Калифорнийского университета Дж.Д.Кларк — один из крупнейших современных африканистов. В данной книге автор рассматривает историю Африки за период от двух миллионов лет назад до начала нашей эры. Он описывает материальную культуру и образ жизни первобытных людей, рассказывает о происхождении...
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