Art & Archaeology - Africa - World Archaeology

Fields of Change: Progress in African Archaeobotany [Hardback]

Rene Cappers (Author); RTJ Cappers (Editor)

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ISBN: 9789077922309
Published by : Barkhuis
The continent of Africa has played an important and independent role in the history of plant exploitation. The International Workshop on African Archaeobotany (IWAA) provides a meeting for archaeobotanists and specialists on African languages to e... .... Learn More

Archaeology of Fazzan Vol. 2: Site Gazetteer, Pottery and other Survey Finds [Hardback]

David J. Mattingly (Author)

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ISBN: 9781900971058
Published by : Society for Libyan Studies
Series: Society for Libyan Studies Monograph
Volume: 7
The Archaeology of Fazzan, volume II, Site Gazetteer, Pottery and other Survey Finds, Edited by David J. Mattingly “The Libyan Sahara is one of the richest desert areas for the study of human adaptation to changing environme... .... Learn More

The Ancient Red Sea Port of Adulis, Eritrea Report of the Etritro-British Expedition, 2004-5 [Paperback]

D. P. S. Peacock (Author);Lucy Blue (Author);Evan Peacock (Author)

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ISBN: 9781842173084
Published by : Oxbow Books
The port of Adulis was one of greatest significance in Antiquity. It is best known for its role in Aksumite trade during the fourth - seventh centuries AD. However it is also a major port of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea , a sailors' han... .... Learn More

Excavations at Kasteelberg and the Origins of the Khoekhoen in the Western Cape, South Africa [Paperback]

Andrew B Smith (Author)

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ISBN: 9781841719696
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The research design underlying this work is based on attempts to try to find the archaeology of the aboriginal herding people of the Cape: Khoekhoen (Khoikhoi, Quena = æHottentotsÆ). With the dating of sheep bones pushing back the age of domest... .... Learn More

Archeologie du Diamare au Cameroun Septentrional: Milieux et peuplements entre Mandara, Logone, Benoue et Tchad pendant les deux derniers millenaires [Paperback]

Alain Marliac (Author)

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ISBN: 9781841719788
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This book is a presentation of North Cameroon, and, as required, the neighbouring regionsÆ prehistory, back to the most remote Palaeolithic times. It focuses on a region and mainly on the most recent period, from which grew the cultures of its ... .... Learn More

The Libyan Desert: Natural Resources and Cultural Heritage [Paperback]

David J. Mattingly (Editor); Sue McLaren (Editor); Elizabeth Savage (Editor); Yahya al-Fasatwi (Editor); Khaled Gadgood (Editor)

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ISBN: 9781900971041
Published by : Society for Libyan Studies
Series: Society for Libyan Studies Monograph
Volume: 6
The Sahara is Libya's outstanding landscape feature and is the source of most of its significant natural resources. This desert region is also extraordinarily rich in historical and cultural heritage that is in itself another valu... .... Learn More

The Oldowan: Case Studies into the Earliest Stone Age [Hardback]

Nick Toth (Editor); Kathy Diane Schick (Editor)

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ISBN: 9780979227608
Published by : Stone Age Institute Press
The earliest traces of proto-human technology emerged over 2.5 million years ago on the African continent. Called the Oldowan after the famous site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, these technologies herald a major evolutionary shift in the human ... .... Learn More

The West Bank Survey from Faras to Gemai. 3. Sites of Christian Age [Paperback]

William Y. Adams (Author)

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ISBN: 9781841718606
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This second volume in a series publishing the results of the UNESCO-Sudan Antiquities Service Survey in northern Sudan, ahead of the flooding of the area by the Aswan High Dam, focuses on the Christian Nubian period sites dating to between AD580 a... .... Learn More

An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Iron-Smelting Practices among the Pangwa and Fipa in Tanzania [Paperback]

Randi Barndon (Author)

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ISBN: 9781841716572
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This work is a comparative study of iron smelting practices among the Pangwa and Fipa peoples of Tanzania. The author discusses local concepts of metallurgy by step-by-step observations of the processes involved. Included is a description of t... .... Learn More

African Foragers: Environment, Technology, Interactions [Hardback]

Sibel Barut Kusimba (Author)

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ISBN: 9780759101531
Published by : AltaMira Press
The central tenet of this book is the idea that modern hunter-gatherers are not a `leftover from prehistory', but that they are part of a very long history of foraging societies that have been able to adapt and survive in the face of ecological an... .... Learn More