Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge, : Cambridge University Press, 1983-
Disciplina	960.1
Soggetto topico	Excavations (Archaeology) - Africa Antiquities, Prehistoric - Africa Prehistoric peoples - Africa Fouilles (Archéologie) - Afrique Antiquités préhistoriques - Afrique Sociétés préhistoriques - Afrique Africa Archaeology Antiquities Antiquities, Prehistoric Excavations (Archaeology) Prehistoric peoples Archäologie
Soggetto genere / forma	Periodical Periodicals. Zeitschrift Périodiques.
Soggetto non controllato	Africa - Antiquities - Archaeology - Serials
ISSN	1572-9842
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Periodico
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910140294403321

Autore	Narcisse Tchandeu Santores
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Johannesburg, : Wits University Press, 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xliii, 190 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	930.1096
Soggetto topico	Excavations (Archaeology) - Africa
Soggetto non controllato	archaeology palaeoanthropology Pottery Swahili language
ISBN	1-77614-149-0 1-77614-035-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction : an invitation fulfilled / Amanda Esterhuysen, Karim Sadr and Chrissie Sievers -- Keynote address 1. Imagining an African archaeology without frontiers / Chapurukha M. Kusimba -- Keynote address 2. A continental vision for African archaeology / Akinwumi Ogundiran -- 1. The 'useable' archaeology of African farming systems / Matthew Davies, Caleb Adebayo Folorunso, Timothy Kipkeu Kipruto, Freda Nkirote M'Mbogori, Henrietta L. Moore, Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie and Alex Schoeman -- 2. Defining cultural heritage among the Makonde of Tanzania / Festo W. Gabriel -- 3. The indigenous roots of Swahili culture in Pangani Bay, Tanzania / Elinaza Mjema -- 4. Is this an anvil? Iron bloom crushing sites in northern Togo / Philip de Barros and Gabriella Lucidi -- 5. L'art rupestre au Cameroun, nouvelles decouvertes et contribution à l'iconographie sous-regionale / Narcisse Santores Tchandeu -- 6. Archaeology and history in Iron Age settlements in the Congo Basin / Dirk Seidensticker -- 7. Learning from glass trade beads at Thabadimasego, Botswana / Adrianne Daggett, Marilee Wood and Laure Dussubieux -- 8. Blurring boundaries : forager-farmer interactions in the middle Limpopo Valley / Tim Forssman -- 9. Heritage management and the World Wide Web : South African challenges / Katie Smuts and Nic Wiltshire.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910168750503321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Walnut Creek, California : , : Left Coast Press, Inc., , [2014]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (294 p.)
Disciplina	561.196
Altri autori (Persone)	StevensChris J FullerDorian Q
Collana	Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Soggetto topico	Plant remains (Archaeology) - Africa Agriculture, Prehistoric - Africa Antiquities, Prehistoric - Africa Excavations (Archaeology) - Africa
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-315-43401-6 1-61132-976-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	African archaeobotany expanding : an editorial / Dorian Q. Fuller, Sam Nixon, Chris J. Stevens and Mary Anne Murray -- Primate archaeobotany: the potential for revealing nonhuman primate plant-use in the African archaeological record / Michael Haslam -- Dietary diversity: our species-specific dietary adaptation / Gordon Hillman and Michèle Wollstonecroft -- Seeds at Sibudu: a glimpse of Middle Stone Age vegetation at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Christine Sievers -- Understanding late and terminal Pleistocene vegetation change in the Western Cape, South Africa: the wood charcoal evidence from Elands Bay Cave / Caroline Cartwright, John Parkington and Richard Cowling -- Early millet farmers in the Lower Tilemsi Valley, Northeastern Mali / Katie Manning and Dorian Q. Fuller -- Holocene vegetation change and land use at Ounjougou, Mali / Barbara Eichhorn and Katharina Neumann -- Early agro-pastoralism in the Middle Senegal Valley: the botanical remains from Walaldé / Shawn Sabrina Murray and Alioune Déme -- Humans and the mangrove in southern Nigeria / Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie and M. Adebisi Sowunmi -- Plant and land use in southern Cameroon between 400 BC and AD 400 / Stefanie Kahlheber, Alexa Höhn and Katharina Neumann -- Wild trees in the subsistence economy of early Bantu speech communities: a historical-linguistic approach / Koen Bostoen -- Archaeobotany of two Middle Kingdom cult chambers at North Saqqara, Egypt / Ahmed Gamal-El-Din Fahmy, Nozomu Kawai and Sakuji Yoshimura -- Botanical insights into the life of an ancient Egyptian village: excavation results from El-Amarna / Chris J. Stevens and Alan J. Clapham -- Agricultural innovation and state collapse in Meroitic Nubia: the impact of the savannah package / Dorian Q. Fuller -- Islands of agriculture on Victoria Nyanza / Andrew Reid and Ceri Ashley -- Archaeobotanical investigations of the Iron Age Lundu State, Malawi / Ingrid Heijen -- Prehistoric plant use on La Palma Island (Canary Islands, Spain): an example of the disappearance of agriculture in an isolated environment / Jacob Morales, Amelia Rodrøguez and Águedo Marrero -- Patterns in the archaeobotany of Africa: developing a database for North Africa, the Sahara and the Sahel / Ruth Pelling -- The archaeobotany of farming communities in South Africa: a review / Alexander Antonites, Annie Raath Antonites -- Linguistic evidence and the origins of food production in Africa: where are we now? / Christopher Ehret -- African agricultural tools: implications of synchronic ethnography for agrarian history / Roger Blench -- Leaving a lasting impression: arable economies and cereal impressions in Africa and Europe / Meriel McClatchie and Dorian Q. Fuller -- The use of plants in iron production: insights from smelting remains from Buganda / Louise Iles.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910453220203321

Autore	Connah Graham
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (208 p.)
Disciplina	960.1
Soggetto topico	Excavations (Archaeology) - Africa
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-134-40303-8 1-280-04815-8 0-203-51180-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Africa the birthplace of humanity; 2 Stone tools and adaptation the origins of the genus Homo; 3 Africa's gift to the world the earliest Homo sapiens; 4 Living off the land later hunter gatherers in Africa; 5 Putting ideas on stone the rock art of southern Africa; 6 Pictures from a lost world the rock art of the Sahara; 7 Producing food: early developments in North and West Africa; 8 Producing food adaptation in North East and East Africa; 9 The power of metal the origins of African iron working 10 Ancient Egypt 3000 years of achievement11 Nubia a meeting place of different people; 12 Aksum a trading metropolis on the Ethiopian Plateau; 13 Church and state survival in Ethiopia; 14 Opportunity and constraint the Lake Chad story; 15 Facing the Mediterranean: Carthaginian, Greek and Roman North Africa; 16 Qsar es Seghir front door to Europe front door to Africa; 17 Jenné jeno an early city on the Middle Niger; 18 Voyages in the Sahara
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910451549403321