The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology

Edited by Peter Mitchell and Paul Lane

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Abstract: Africa has the longest and arguably the most diverse archaeological record of any of the continents. It is where the human lineage first evolved and from where Homo sapiens spread across the rest of the world. Later, it witnessed novel experiments in food-production and unique trajectories to urbanism and the organisation of large communities that were not always structured along strictly hierarchical lines. Millennia of engagement with societies in other parts of the world confirm Africa's active participation in the construction of the modern world, while the richness of its history, ethnography, and linguistics provide unusually powerful opportunities for constructing interdisciplinary narratives of Africa's past. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of African archaeology, covering the entirety of the continent's past from the beginnings of human evolution to the archaeological legacy of European colonialism. As well as covering almost all periods and regions of the continent, it includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates, and situates the subject's contemporary practice within the discipline's history and the infrastructural challenges now facing its practitioners. Bringing together essays on all these themes from over seventy contributors, many of them living and working in Africa, it offers a highly accessible, contemporary account of the subject for use by scholars and students of not only archaeology, but also history, anthropology, and other disciplines. Contributors to this volume - Noemie Arazi (Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren) Ceri Ashley (University of Pretoria) Lawrence Barham (University of Liverpool) Barbara Barich (Universita di Roma 'Sapienza') Nick Barton (University of Oxford) Sibel Barut Kusimba (Northern Illinois University) Roger Blench (Kay Williamson Educational Foundation, Cambridge) Abdeljalil Bouzougar (Institut National des Sciences de l'Archeologie et du Patrimoine, Morocco) Colin Breen (University of Ulster) Peter Breunig (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt-am-Main) Joanna Casey (University of South Carolina) Shadreck Chirikure (University of Cape Town) Graham Connah (Australian National University) Els Cornelissen (Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren) Sarah Croucher (Wesleyan University) Matthew Curtis (University of California, Santa Barbara) Matthew Davies (University of Cambridge and British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi) Pierre de Maret (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) Savino di Lernia (Universita di Roma 'Sapienza' and University of the Witwatersrand) Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo (Complutense University, Spain) David Edwards (University of Leicester) Intisar Elzein (University of Khartoum) Said Ennahid (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco) Amanda Esterhuysen (University of the Witwatersrand) Jeff Fleisher (Rice University, Houston) Robert Foley (University of Cambridge) Dorian Fuller (University College, London) Elena Garcea (Universita degli Studi di Cassino) John Giblin (University of Lund, Sweden) Diane Gifford-Gonzalez (University of California, Santa Cruz) Olivier Gosselain (Universite Libre de Bruzelles and University of the Witwatersrand) Detlef Gronenborn (Roman-German Museum, Johannes Guttenberg University, Mainz, and University of the Witwatersrand) Gunnar Haaland (University of Bergen) Randi Haaland (University of Bergen) Olivier Hanotte (University of Nottingham) Elisabeth Hildebrand (Stony Brook University, New York) Timothy Insoll (University of Manchester). Kenneth Kelly (University of South Carolina) Carla Klehm (University of Texas at Austin) Chapurukha Kusimba (Field Museum, Chicago) Adria La Violette (University of Virginia) Marta Lahr (University of Cambridge) Paul Lane (University of York and University of the Witwatersrand) Anna Leone (University of Durham) Alexandre Livingstone Smith (Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren) Marlize Lombard (University of Johannesburg) Diane Lyons (University of Calgary) Kevin MacDonald (University College, London) Scott MacEachern (Bowdoin College, Maine) Bertram Mapunda (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) Peter Mitchell (University of Oxford and University of the Witwatersrand) Cameron Monroe (University of California, Santa Cruz) Fares Moussa (University of Edinburgh) Akin Ogundiran (University of North Carolina) David Phillipson (University of Cambridge) Innocent Pikirayi (University of Pretoria) Chantal Radimilahy Andrew Reid (University College, London) Francois Richard (University of Chicago) Michael Rogers (Southern Connecticut State University) Karim Sadr (University of the Witwatersrand) Mohamed Sahnouni (University of Indiana) Peter Schmidt (University of Florida) Alex Schoeman (University of the Witwatersrand) Sileshi Semaw (Centro Nacional de Investigacion sobre la Evolucion Humana, Burgos) Ian Shaw (University of Liverpool) Paul Sinclair (Uppsala University) Benjamin Smith (University of the Witwatersrand) Darryl Stump (University of York) Natalie Swanepoel (University of South Africa) Ibrahima Thiaw (Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Dakar) Christian Tryon (New York University) Lyn Wadley (University of the Witwatersrand) Derek Welsby (The British Museum) Stephanie Wynne-Jones (University of York)

Date: 2013
ISBN: 9780199569885
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