Africa

ISBN: 9781407307732
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This volume explores through skull morphology some potential sources of biological diversity within sub-Saharan Africa, such as geography and especially history, in relation to large-scale population movements. Through various statistical analy... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407308050
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This book reprints the first volume on the University of Kentucky's excavations at Kulubnarti in Sudan, originally published in 1996 but long out of print. The excavations at Kulubnarti remain the only detailed study of a late medieval and pos... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407308494
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This report describes the lithic assemblages associated with the sedimentological column for the Canteen Koppie site. The assemblages represent the first controlled excavations in this world famous locality. .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900971126
Published by : Silphium Press
Egypt, Carthage and other African civilisations are well documented but the land and people between them are less well known yet also worthy of consideration. This collection of extracts from classical authors on subjects relating... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900971133
Published by : Silphium Press
From Tripoli to the ancient ruins of Leptis Magna, from the slave markets to the farthest reaches of the Sahara: here is a mosaic of unknown places, handed down to us by the foreign visitors and travellers who experienced them fir... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789088900679
Published by : Sidestone Press
This final report describes the study of an exceptionally well-preserved Iron Age building discovered in northern Burkina Faso, West Africa. The site of Oursi hu-beero, meaning "the big house of Oursi" in the locally spoken Songhay language, wa... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842179925
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: UBC Studies in the Ancient World
Volume: 2
Adorning the north-west staircase in the British Museum is a group of brightly coloured figured mosaic pavements. Most were excavated for the Museum between 1856 and 1859 at Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, by a dilettante called Nathan Davis;... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780861591763
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 176
This book expands upon a conference held at the British Museum in 2008 that brought together scholars from differing fields specialising in ancient North Africa. This multidisciplinary approach allowed a number of subjects to be enriched throug... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789088900549
Published by : Sidestone Press
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Animism as a religion and a culture of the Nilotic peoples of the Upper River Nile in modern "Southern Sudan". It gives an account of how the animistic ritual performances of the divine chief-pries... .... Learn More