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Kasongo-Tongoni: a nineteenth-century caravan town in Maniema, Democratic Republic of Congo Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Noemie Arazi, Igor Matonda, Olivier Mulumbwa Luna, Alexandre Livingstone Smith
This article is devoted to the identification and preliminary archaeological research of Kasongo-Tongoni, an important caravan settlement located in the east of Central Africa to the west of Lake T...
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Pleistocene archaeology and environments of the Free State, South Africa Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Michael B. Toffolo
Pleistocene climate variability is often seen as a major cause of much of the evidence observed in the archaeological and palaeontological record of Africa. While continent-wide climate systems pla...
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Revisiting the current phyto-scape of Boomplaas Cave (South Africa) and the possible implications of this for past day-range foraging Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Marlize Lombard, Justin Pargeter
Boomplaas Cave in the Western Cape Province of South Africa is one of only a few African sites with inland archaeological deposits spanning Marine Isotope Stages 4–1. Work conducted half a century ...
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The technology and microwear of the bone tools from Broederstroom, an Early Iron Age site in the Magaliesberg, South Africa Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Justin Bradfield
This paper reports the results of a technological and microwear analysis of 110 pieces of worked bone from the Early Iron Age site of Broederstroom in the Magaliesberg region of South Africa. The r...
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Heritage commodification: a study of Forts Metal Cross, Gross Friedrichsburg and Apollonia in the Western Region of Ghana Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Mark Seyram Amenyo-Xa
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Paul Sinclair (1949–2023) — In memoriam Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Anneli Ekblom
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Adornment deposits: a study of bead and jewellery remains from Late Antiquity tombs in the Red Sea port of Berenike Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Joanna Then-Obłuska
Next to pottery, items of adornment comprise the most abundant material excavated in Northeast Africa, often being the only evidence for long-distance interactions. Interdisciplinary research has b...
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Festins et pratiques alimentaires à Lambaye et ses environs, 1500–1900 (royaume historique du Baol), Sénégal Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Sidy Ndour
Situé dans le centre-ouest du Sénégal, le royaume historique du Baol a joué un rôle majeur dans l’évolution politique, économique, culturelle, religieuse et sociale de l’histoire du Sénégal. Avec L...
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Expansion atlantique et transformations des paysages à Lambaye, 1400–1900 (royaume du Baol), Université Laval, 2024 (Atlantic expansion and landscape transformations at Lambaye, 1400–1900 (kingdom of Baol), Laval University 2024) Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Sidy Ndour
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Zuurberg (Eastern Cape, South Africa) revisited: human remains, dating and archaeological findings Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Maryna Steyn, Cecile Jolly, Carina M. Schlebusch, Anja Meyer
The Later Stone Age (LSA) site of Zuurberg in the Cape Fold Mountains of South Africa was excavated in the 1920s by F.W. FitzSimons. As with his other excavations, not much is known about the exact...
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The development of crop production in the northern Horn of Africa: a review of the archaeobotanical evidence Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Abel Ruiz-Giralt, Alemseged Beldados
This article presents a synthesis of the hypotheses and evidence for plant domestication and the origins of agriculture in the northern Horn of Africa. To date, available archaeological data point ...
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Begho (Ghana) revisited: examining archaeological archives and ‘excavating’ museum storages, Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, 2023 Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Daniel Kumah
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Correction Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-14
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The beginning of the Iron Age south of the Congo rainforest: the first archaeological investigations around Idiofa (Congo), c. 146 BC – AD 1648 Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Peter R. Coutros, Igor Matonda, Jessamy H. Doman, Sara Pacchiarotti, Isis Mesfin, Koen Bostoen
Archaeological investigations of the Idiofa region in the Kwilu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo have yielded the earliest evidence for iron production, combined with ceramics and lithi...
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The nineteenth-century Matabele settlements on the South African Highveld, University of the Witwatersrand, 2023 Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Renier van der Merwe
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Small tool production in the Howiesons Poort: a view from Montagu Cave, South Africa Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Sara E. Watson, Tamara Dogandžić, Peiqi Zhang, Teresa E. Steele, Nicolas Zwyns
In southern Africa, the Howiesons Poort is one of the earliest technocomplexes in which small blades and bladelets were systematically produced and retouched into formal tools. While the presence o...
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Revisiting site history and regional interaction at the Dia settlement mound complex, Mali Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Susan Keech McIntosh, Roderick J. McIntosh
Previously unpublished results of test excavations in 1986–1987 at Dia, an extensive occupation mound complex on the western margins of the Inland Niger Delta in Mali, have been augmented by a seri...
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A multi-component forager-to-herder sequence at Kapsoo Rockshelter (Chebinyiny) on the Uasin Gishu Plateau, Kenya Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Steven Goldstein, Kaedan O’Brien, Andrew Adum, John Mwangi
Early archaeological investigations of the Uasin Gishu Plateau of west-central Kenya highlighted its potential importance as a geographic link between the Central Rift, the Lake Victoria Basin and ...
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Données sur la métallurgie ancienne du fer dans la périphérie est de Ouagadougou au Burkina Faso: résultats de recherche des sites de production ancienne du fer à Gonsé Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Foniyama Élise Ilboudo-Thiombiano
Au Burkina Faso, la cartographie de la métallurgie du fer de Jean-Baptiste Kiethega permet de dégager quatre provinces métallurgiques. Gonsé, localisé au centre du pays, s’inscrit dans la grande pr...
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John Sutton (1937–2023) Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Matthew Davies, Daryl Stump
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Archaeological survey near Tsabong, Kgalagadi District, southwestern Botswana Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Michaela Ecker, Chris Green, Abenicia Henderson, Inèz Faul, Phillip Segadika, Sarah Mothulatshipi
The importance of the arid interior of southern Africa for human evolution has come into focus in recent years. However, the current distribution of archaeological sites is limited to the southern ...
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Hafting adhesives from the final Later Stone Age layers at Sehonghong, Lesotho: a case study and commentary on the use of imported resources by nineteenth-century San Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Margaret-Ashley Veall, Peter J. Mitchell
There is longstanding evidence in the archaeological record of southern Africa for the application of hafting adhesives in the production of composite tool technology. Despite the limitations in th...
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Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Vincent Francigny
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The settlement of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria: an archaeological and ethnohistorical investigation Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Bolaji Josephine Owoseni
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Spatio-temporal inferences from the study of soapstone figurines in Esie, Kwara State, Nigeria Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Kolawole Olugbenga Adekola
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Editorial Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Noemie Arazi, Elisabeth Hildebrand, Peter Mitchell
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Stone point variability reveals spatial, chronological and environmental structuring of eastern African Middle Stone Age populations Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Lucy Timbrell, Behailu Habte, Yosef Tefera, Christine Maroma, Emmanuel Ndiema, Kimberly Plomp, James Blinkhorn, Matt Grove
Stone points are one of the key features used to define the African Middle Stone Age (MSA). Regional patterns in their shape and size through time have been thought to reflect inter-group interacti...
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Archaeological investigations of the Maldives in the medieval Islamic period: Ibn Battuta's island Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Edward Pollard
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The Pre-Aksumite Period: indigenous origins and development in the Horn of Africa Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 A. Catherine D’Andrea, Lynn Welton, Andrea Manzo, Helina S. Woldekiros, Steven A. Brandt, Alemseged Beldados, Elizabeth A. Peterson, Laurie A. Nixon-Darcus, Michela Gaudiello, Shannon R. Wood, Habtamu Mekonnen, Stephen Batiuk, Yemane Meresa, Abel Ruiz-Giralt, Carla Lancelotti, Abebe Mengistu Taffere, Lucas M. Johnson
The Pre-Aksumite Period (mid-second to late first millennia BC) witnessed the rise of complex societies in the Horn of Africa. Archaeological survey and excavations in the Gulo Makeda region of Eas...
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A deep dive into bodies as political capital Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Susan Pfeiffer
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Constellations of practice in copper ingots from Zambia and northern Zimbabwe, cal. AD 500–1700 Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Jay Stephens, David Killick, Shadreck Chirikure, Michael Bisson, Maggie Katongo, Fortune Munetsi
Rectangular, fishtail and croisette copper ingots have been found in many locations in Central and southern Africa where excavated samples date to between the fifth and eighteenth centuries cal. AD...
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Exploring personhood and identity marking: paintings of lions and felines in San rock art sites from the southern Maloti-Drakensberg and northeastern Stormberg, South Africa. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Dawn Green
ABSTRACT With the influence of the ‘new’ ontologies of animisms and performative materialisms, research has shown that people, animals and things are relational and have agency. In southern San ethnography, behaving with understanding was essential for maintaining reciprocal, beneficial relationships between human and animal persons for the good of these communities. People identified with certain
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Edwin Wilmsen (1932–2023): a personal view Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 James Denbow
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Experiments in Egyptian archaeology — Stoneworking technology in ancient Egypt Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Fekri Hassan
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PhD Abstract Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Courtneay Hopper
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Using the radiocarbon dates of Central Africa for studying long-term demographic trends of the last 50,000 years: potential and pitfalls Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Bernard Clist, James Denbow, Raymond Lanfranchi
ABSTRACT This paper presents the first review of biases impacting Pleistocene and Holocene radiocarbon dates from Central Africa. Based on the pooling of the research expertise of the co-authors, twenty-four biases are listed, explained and documented and their impact on any radiocarbon date corpus demonstrated. To achieve this, a new corpus has been created of 1764 radiocarbon and TL assays from 601
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The Diepkloof Rock Shelter foodplant fitness landscape, Western Cape, South Africa Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Marlize Lombard
ABSTRACT This paper reports on, and supplies the checklists for, the known foodplant population currently growing around Diepkloof Rock Shelter, South Africa, within radii of ∼12.5 km, ∼35 km and ∼70 km. It demonstrates that many of the species identified from the shelter’s Middle Stone Age charcoal record still grow on the landscape today and that 33 of the ancient charcoal-identified species are
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A new interpretation of the military settlements of the northern Nguni Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Renier H. van der Merwe, Kent D. Fowler, Karim Sadr
ABSTRACT The migration of the various northern Nguni groups during the nineteenth century is associated with a period of increased and extensive conflict throughout southern Africa. Central to the success of the nineteenth-century northern Nguni kingdoms was the utilisation of a social organisational system known as the regimental system. These regiments were housed in military settlements that would
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East Africa’s human environment interactions: historical perspectives for a sustainable future Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Samuel Lunn-Rockliffe
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From settlement patterns to memory of place among Holocene hunter-gatherers at Sai Island, Middle Nile Valley Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Vincenzo Spagnolo, Elena A.A. Garcea
ABSTRACT Persistent places are the locations where people aggregate, utilise and reuse natural or built features and develop their social identities and interactions. A network of persistent places forms interconnected persistent settlement patterns, which create a humanly made or storied landscape with a shared community-based memory of place. Although it has been demonstrated that persistent settlement
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PhD Abstract Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Gonzalo J. Linares Matás
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Editorial Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Peter Mitchell
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Iron Age sites in northern Botswana’s Okavango Delta 1: the southern Delta sites Mat82 and Matlapaneng plus Qogana on the region’s eastern margin Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 James Denbow, Edwin N. Wilmsen
ABSTRACT This paper, one of three focused on Early Iron Age (EIA) sites of the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana, provides descriptions and analyses of two sites, Mat82 and Matlapaneng, on the southern margin of the Delta and of a small contemporary hunting-fishing camp at Qogana in its eastern middle reaches. The relationship of these sites to others, particularly in the areas of the confluence
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The exploitation, processing and use of softstone in northern Madagascar and its links to the Indian Ocean world, 800–1500 CE Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Christoph Nitsche
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Iron Age sites in northern Botswana’s Okavango Delta 3: Lotshitshi, a Later Stone Age/Bambata/Recent site on the Delta margin Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Edwin N. Wilmsen, James Denbow
ABSTRACT Lotshitshi is a small site on the edge of the Thamalakane River floodplain on the southern margin of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. A component with Later Stone Age lithic artefacts radiocarbon-dated to the second/third millennia BC is overlain by a component with the same kind of stone tools, but with the addition of Bambata pottery and domestic cattle radiocarbon-dated to the earlier decades
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Iron Age sites in northern Botswana’s Okavango Delta 2: the Xaro sites in the Panhandle of the river-delta system Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Edwin N. Wilmsen, James Denbow
ABSTRACT The Xaro sites are located in the Okavango Delta Panhandle of northwestern Botswana. All have an upper component with pottery identical to that made by nineteenth-century and current Mbukushu potters. Xaro 1 also has European glass beads for which cited historical documents provide calendar year dates of between 1850 and 1890. Other historical documents place the Xaro 1 Mbukushu settlement
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Foragers during a period of social upheaval at Little Muck Shelter, southern Africa Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Tim Forssman, Siphesihle Kuhlase, Chanté Barnard, Justin Pentz
ABSTRACT By the turn of the second millennium AD, farmer societies in southern Africa’s middle Limpopo Valley were undergoing significant economic, political and social transformations that ultimately led to the development of state-level society at Mapungubwe. This included the appearance of social hierarchies, élite groups, trade wealth, craft specialisation and a royal leadership system. Whereas
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The Aterian site of Phacochères (northern Algeria): a zooarchaeological perspective Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Razika Chelli-Cheheb, Souhila Merzoug
ABSTRACT The Phacochères site (formerly known as Les Allobroges) is a small ravine belonging to a karst system in northern Algeria. The rescue excavations conducted in 1960s at this site have yielded an exceptionally rich assemblage of vertebrates associated with Aterian stone tools. These faunal fossils collected in sandy clay levels are characteristic of the North African Upper Pleistocene and they
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Du Capsien chasseur au Capsien Pasteur. Pour un modèle régional de néolithisation Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Giuseppina Mutri
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Divine consumption: sacrifice, alliance building, and making ancestors in West Africa Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Nick Gestrich
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Iron metallurgy in northeastern Madagascar: a study of Rasikajy metallurgical production between the 11th and 15th century Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Mélissa Morel
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Nicholas David (1937–2023) Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Judy Sterner, Diane Lyons, Scott MacEachern
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Landscape-scale perspectives on Later Stone Age settlement in the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Emily Hallinan
ABSTRACT The Late Pleistocene and Holocene settlement record of southern Africa shows clear discontinuities both through time and across space. While there is considerable variability between different ecological biomes, the sub-continent’s interior arid zones show particularly unstable occupation histories. However, understanding the nature of and reasons for these discontinuities is hampered by substantial
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SEM-EDS identification of glass groups in Meroitic period and Early Nobadian Nubia Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Juliet V. Spedding
ABSTRACT This article presents the results of chemical analysis using SEM-EDS on 136 vitreous bead and vessel samples found at Faras and Qasr Ibrim (Lower Nubia), and Gabati and Meroe (Upper Nubia) in Sudan dating to the Meroitic (c. 350 BC–AD 350) and Early Nobadian (c. AD 350–600) periods. The results revealed a great variety of chemical groups and types, indicating the presence of glass from multiple
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San rock paintings of women in the southern Maloti-Drakensberg and eastern Stormberg, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa: ritual specialists, potency and social conditioning Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Dawn Green
ABSTRACT The investigation of gender and gender roles is crucial to understanding past lifeways. San rock art provides an important opportunity to do this because the paintings are specific, emic representations of how people were thinking and doing in the past. A gendered analytical lens can potentially provide new insights for an in-depth appreciation of the identities and personhood that San chose
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A preliminary phytolith analysis of terrace soils from Buffelskloof, Mpumalanga, South Africa Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Tanya Hattingh, Marion K. Bamford, Maria H. Schoeman
ABSTRACT Even though numerous studies have explored the layout, location, and chronology of Bokoni settlements of the second millennium AD (Mpumalanga province, South Africa), relatively little is known about the type of food cultivated by its people. In pursuit of direct evidence for crops and to understand the environmental conditions that prevailed during the site’s occupation we conducted a phytolith
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Social inference from mortuary remains in medieval Nubia: a multidisciplinary approach to the analysis and interpretation of Christian cemeteries at Ghazali, northern Sudan Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Joanna A. Ciesielska
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Tom Huffman (1944–2022) Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Amanda Esterhuysen
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African islands: a comparative archaeology Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Adria LaViolette
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Rock art and performance in the Stormberg, South Africa Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 David M. Witelson
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