Africa (Continent) (Geographic Keyword)

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Evolution of Iron Age to Modern Landscapes in the Benoué River Valley, Cameroon (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Wright. Scott MacEachern. Stanley Ambrose.

African landscapes have undergone radical ecological transformations since agriculture was introduced and spread across the continent. In some areas, it appears that grassland was encouraged at the expense of forests and woodlands, for agriculture and to provide fodder for livestock. To this point, most of the evidence for such practices has come secondarily from ocean or swamp cores, not directly from archaeological contexts. In this paper, we present a scenario for landscape evolution and...

Evolving Social Networks during the Late Pleistocene: An Interior Perspective from Grassridge Rockshelter, South Africa (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Collins. Ayanda Mdludlu. Jayne Wilkins. April Nowell. Christopher Ames.

This is an abstract from the "From Veld to Coast: Diverse Landscape Use by Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa from the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Humans are social beings and being able to track social interactions and relationships across space and through time is a major focus of both anthropological and archaeological research. Within archaeology, the scale and intensity of social interactions has been...

The excavation of mud structures: an experiment from West Africa (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only R J Mcintosh.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...

Excavations at Great Zimbabwe: Commoner Housing versus Elite Enclosures (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Huffman.

Salvage excavations in the 1970s at the famous capital of Great Zimbabwe, southern Africa, uncovered several residential complexes dating to Periods IVb (AD 1300-1450) and IVc (AD 1450-1550). Overall, granaries and middens surrounded closely-spaced houses of commoner families living between the Outer and Inner Perimeter Walls. These high-density concentrations stood in marked contrast to the open spaces typical of elite enclosures. One midden against the Outer Perimeter Wall yielded a copper...

Exit Wounds: Colonial Legacies of Subject Formation in Present-Day Parole in South Africa (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2021)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Nicole van Zyl.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project proposes a legal historical ethnography of the liberal legal institution of parole as a site to explore the assimilation of colonial subjectivities into post-apartheid governance and social relations. It poses the question of how the institution mediates between the universalist liberal aspirations of law, and continued racial oppression and hierarchy in post-apartheid South...

Expanding Archaeological Research in Mývatnssveit: Conservation, Politics, and Modernity (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Hicks.

This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Anna Kerttula's Contributions to Northern Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological research in the Mývatn region of northern Iceland contributed the first regional-scale interdisciplinary archaeological program to Icelandic archaeology (e.g. Lucas 2009, McGovern et al. 2007). Until recently the regional project focused chiefly on the settlement period (beginning in the late 9th century)...

An experiment in Egyptian blue glaze (1932)

DOCUMENT Citation Only C F Binns. M Klem. H Mott.

An experiment in Egyptian blue glaze (1932)

DOCUMENT Citation Only C F Binn.

An experiment in skinning with Egyptian palaeolithic and neolithic stone implements (1964)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J L Swauger. B L Wallace.

An experimental and archaeological investigation of the role of edge angle in lithic artifact damage: Applications to the Koobi Fora Fm. Kenya. (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith Carlson. Jonathan Reeves. David Braun. Matthew Douglass.

The analysis of damage patterning on lithic artifacts has the potential to distinguish between pre-depositional use of artifacts and post-depositional taphonomic processes, providing important evidence for particular hominin behaviors. Previous study has suggested that damage accrues in a non-random fashion in archaeological assemblages. Limited work has been done using the quantified variable of edge angle to account for patterns of edge damage. This study focuses on assemblage-level patterns...

Experimental archaeology (1966)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thurstan Shaw.

Experimental Archaeology concerning Black-Topped Pottery from Ancient Egypt and the Sudan (2000)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Renée Friedman. Fabienne Loyens. Stan Hendrickx.

Experimental Archaeology, 1: Sticks and Stones of Egyptian Technology (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dennis A Stocks.

Experimental archaeology: replicas and reconstructions (2009)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Séan Mcgrail.

Experimental burning of traditional Nguni huts (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only H M Friede. H Steel.

Experimental determination of the purpose of a 'box oven' (1989)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul T Nicholson.

Experimental Determination of Use Wear on Stone Adzes from Boomplaas Cave, South Africa (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J Binneman. J Deacon.

Experimental determinations of carcass processing by Plio-Pleistocene hominids and carnivores at FLK 22 (Zinjanhropus), Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (1997)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Salvatore D Capaldo.

Experimental Identification of Heat-Treated Silcrete Using Colorimetry and Reflectance Spectrophotometry (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Murray. Scott Keohane. Andrew Zipkin.

This is an abstract from the "Human Origins Migration and Evolution Research Consortium Poster Symposium" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The heat treatment of stone for tool production represents one of the oldest technologies for transforming the material properties of a natural product to better suit human needs. The earliest evidence for such technology is the heat treatment of silcrete at the South African Middle Stone Age site Pinnacle Point...

Experimental implement manufacture and use: A case study from Olduvai Gorge (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter R Jones.

Experimental Iron Smelting at Meroe, Sudan (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Charlton. Jane Humphris.

The Royal City of Meroe, situated 250km north of Khartoum in the Republic of Sudan, was a capital of the Kingdom of Kush from the 4th Century BC. Famed for its pyramids and other monumental architecture, Meroe was also home to extensive bloomery ironworks exemplified by numerous slag mounds scattered across the site. Superficial investigation of furnace and slag remains were undertaken in the 1980’s and raised numerous questions about the technology. New archaeometallurgical research was...

Experimental iron smelting: the genesis of a hypothesis with implications for African prehistory and history (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter R Schmidt. Terry S Childs.

Experimental nautical research: third millenium B.C. Egyptian sails (1959)

DOCUMENT Citation Only R L Bowen.

Experimental reproduction of artificially patinated alloys, identified in ancient Egyptian, Palestinian, Mycenaean and Roman object. (Riproduzione sperimentale di leghe artificialmente patinate, identificate in ogetti antichi egiziani, palestinesi, micene (2003)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alessandra Giumlia-Mair. Matthias Lehr.

An experimental study of iron-smelting techniques used in the South African iron age (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only H M Friede. R H Steel.

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