FOR many, archaeology calls to mind Hollywood adventures or stories of ancient treasures taken abroad. Yet a quiet transformation is taking place: archaeology in Africa is increasingly led by Africans ...

Sites and artifacts are revealing clues to the continent’s recent history. An archaeologist explains the findings and threats to this heritage Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine Big gaps exist in the ...

IT IS less than three quarters of a century since Europe’s Congress of Berlin agreed upon a colonial share-out in Africa that was intended to be long enduring, if not permanent. It is less than half a ...

Based on the symposium: Archaeological and historical dimensions of slavery in East and West Africa in comparative perspective, held Mar. 24-25, 2007. Reviewed by Chapurukha M. Kusimba in Journal of ...

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 ...

Where the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers meet, forming the modern border between Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe, lies a hill that hardly stands out from the rest. One could easily pass it without ...

Music has been part and parcel of humanity for a long time. Not every sound is musical, but sound has meaning and sometimes the meaning of sound is specific to its context. But when it comes to ...

SAfA is one of only two archaeology conferences focusing on the archaeology of the African continent. William & Mary faculty, students, and alumni played a leading role in it this year. From June 1 st ...

The Journal of African History, Vol. 32, No. 1 (1991), pp. 3-24 (22 pages) This review is a further development in the Journal of African History series of archaeological surveys away from the earlier ...

JENA, GERMANY—Jennifer Miller of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and Elizabeth Sawchuk of Stony Brook University tested the idea that the size of beads made from ostrich ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The South African Archaeological Bulletin is the longest established archaeological journal in sub-Saharan Africa, it contains the ...