Prehistory

ISBN: 9781841712024
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Archaeopress
Based on fieldwork as part of the Gambaga Archaeological research Project and forming the basis for a doctoral thesis, this study focuses on defining the Kintampo complex of Ghana, a regional Neolithic culture characterised by distinctive potte... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780953541867
Published by : Western Academic & Specialist Press
A detailed study of prehistoric sequences in south central Africa, largely based around the results of investigations at the sites of Mumbwa and Twin Rivers, excavated in 1993-96 and 1999. An introductory chapter provides the background context... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780860549871
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This study focuses on the investigation of prehistoric workshops in northern Mauritania. The author looks at the palaeo-environment, the location and type of natural resources and raw materials, and their implications for the lithic industry. ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780860549710
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: bar archaeopress
Volume: 763
'Ethiopia has long been regarded as "one of the world's greatest and oldest centres of domesticated seed plants"'. This book discusses when, how and why food production developed in Ethiopia. It begins with questions and problems, and ethnograp... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780718501389
Published by : Cassell PLC
The essays in this book challenge the long-held belief that Africa was culturally and economically dormant before the advent of colonialism. A shift is traced from hunter-gatherers to food production and cattle pastoralism, with the development... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780860548935
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: bar archaeopress
Volume: 715
A study aimed firstly at establishing the chronology of later Stone Age settlement in this area; secondly at investigating the particular influence of the Waterberg ecosystem on Later Stone Age settlement patterns, on the lifestyle of the inhab... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780860549215
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: bar archaeopress
Volume: 734
Excavations at the Ugwuagu Rockshelter and Ugwuagu Abandoned Village Sites in Afikpo uncovered a sequence of archaeological levels reflecting change in subsistence strategies from the Late Stone Age up to the present. The vidence contributes to... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781872566016
Published by : British Institute in Eastern Africa
Results of archaeological surveys and excavations, and effective interdisciplinary research of the Loita-Mara region of south-western Kenya. The main focus is on Neolithic sites and prehistoric pastoral subsistence and settlement systems. Inclu... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780860546627
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Study, by Kathlyn Moore Stewart, of environmental change and human adaptation at sites ranging from the Nile and southern Sahara to Kenya and southern Zaire in the period of 9000 to 400 B.P. .... Learn More