Africa (Continent) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only A Herold.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only M Fröhlich.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Kendra Sirak. Dennis Van Gerven. Jessica Thompson. Ron Pinhasi. David Reich.

This is an abstract from the "Ancient DNA in Service of Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Skeletal remains from two contemporaneous Early Christian Period (550–800 CE) cemeteries at Kulubnarti in Sudanese Nubia have been the subject of a decades-long biocultural research program. Craniometric and dental analyses have suggested biological similarity between members of the "R" and "S" cemetery communities, while analyses of health and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Adderley. Mitchell Power. Valery Terwilliger.

The ancient polities of the Tigrai Plateau and this region’s pronounced climatic variations combine to create a research paradigm where social-environmental interactions can be considered over the long-term. Existing regional-scale indicators suggest that human responses to climate variability differed between peoples, polities and time-periods. Framed by an ongoing regional study designed to examine high-resolution climate and environmental markers at a broad-spatial scale, the study of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mussa Raja. Nuno Bicho. Jonathan Haws. Mussa Achimo. Ana Gomes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study aimed to reconstruct Txina-Txina site (located between the junction of Machampane and Chifati rivers, Southeastern Mozambique) paleoenvironment and site formation processes to better understand its occupation pattern, preservation of archaeological materials and the impact of palaeoenvironmental changes on human evolution. For this, we collected...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandi MacDonald. Elizabeth Velliky. Jorg Linstatder. Lisa Ehlers. Gregor Donatus Bader.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Advances in Material Sourcing and Provenience Studies in Africa" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We present results of a multi-method, regional-scale iron and manganese-oxide provenance study centered on five Middle and Late Stone Age sites and raw material sources in Eswatini. Earth mineral pigment artifacts are abundant at MSA and LSA sites and the variation observed in their typologies shows changes over time...

DATASET Jay Stephens.

Site, context, and other metadata associated with geological samples analyzed for this project.

DOCUMENT Citation Only U Braukämper.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jillian Swift.

Advances in zooarchaeological method and theory, increased attention to the recovery and analysis of microfaunal remains, and multidisciplinary collaborative research have generated increasingly nuanced understandings of past human-animal relationships. This paper provides a brief introduction to archaeological investigations of commensal fauna, highlighting the myriad ways that research focused on the commensal niche sheds new light on past societies and ecosystems. A case study from Makangale...

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Gileodabeshta is located at 1035 m asl in open grasslands, near where the Matete River runs into Lake Eyasi (which lies at ca. 1000 m asl). It is very close to Ishimijega Shelter (Mehlman 1989). Gileodabeshta was originally called "Matete-Streminsel Fundstelle" or "Flussinsel im Matete" by Kohl-Larsen (1943) and was called "Matete River Site" by Mehlman (1989). It was surface-collected by Kohl-Larsen, and Mehlman studied the collections and identified mainly SPN-Narosura pottery as well as some...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sydney James. Husna Mashaka. Sarah Mollel. Julius Ogutu. Kathryn Ranhorn.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Advances in Material Sourcing and Provenience Studies in Africa" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Studies of obsidian transport during the Late Pleistocene of eastern Africa have been largely productive for reconstructing raw material procurement patterns and movement across landscapes. Due to a limited sample, however, these studies are often descriptive of particular sites and related explicitly to material...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Foreman Bandama.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research on Ancient Glass around the Indian Ocean" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The northwestern parts of Zimbabwe lie at a critical junction between the Indian and Atlantic Oceans and—during the late Iron Age—witnessed major cultural changes. This includes possible migrations historically tied to the decline of major states to the south. Beads lubricated these transformations, making it possible to connect...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marilee Wood. Laure Dussubieux. Stephanie Wynne-Jones. Jeffrey Fleisher.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research on Ancient Glass around the Indian Ocean" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological site of Songo Mnara lies on a small island of the same name just to the south of Kilwa Kisiwani in Tanzania. It was occupied mainly in the fifteenth century CE and its assemblage of 7,444 glass beads provides us with a unique view into Indian Ocean trade to East Africa in this period. A comprehensive study of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Sterrett-Krause. Laure Dussubieux.

This is an abstract from the "Twenty Years of Archaeological Science at the Field Museum’s Elemental Analysis Facility" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations at the site Bir el Knissia in Carthage from 1990 to 1992 recovered large glass assemblages from the site of an early Byzantine cemetery basilica, constructed by the mid-sixth century CE and destroyed by fire in the mid-seventh century. These artifacts include vessels (especially lamps,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul T Nicholson.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara R Armbruster.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara R Armbruster.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Innocent Pikirayi. Federica Sulas. Tendai Treddah Musindo. Elton Munyaradzi Sagiya.

In southern Africa, Great Zimbabwe has long been the focus of research, debates and preservation as the remains of what was once the urban centre of a vast state system. As new research findings are reframing the development of the Zimbabwe civilization in the region, local environmental settings and natural resources at Great Zimbabwe remain poorly understood. Using approaches in geoarchaeology, this paper presents Great Zimbabwe as a living landscape. New soil sequences from within and around...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Smith.

Ground stone technology is an early component of the African Middle and Late Pleistocene hominin behavioral package. However, very little attention has been paid to quantifying Pleistocene ground stone variation in Africa. This paper describes a ground stone assemblage from the site of Mochena Borago in Southwest Ethiopia. The site plays a key role in testing the hypothesis that the highlands of Southwestern Ethiopia acted as a refugium for hunter-gatherer populations looking to escape...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ann Stahl.

The plenary theme asks us to reflect on the question “what pasts for Africa?” This is a very big question, with many possible responses. The ones that I sketch are shaped by my position as a graying, North American-based scholar, where archaeology is practiced as a subfield of anthropology and a discipline among the social sciences. This location has substantially shaped my approach to our field, in terms of the questions that intrigue me, the combination of ‘science’ and ‘art’ through which my...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gudrun Böttcher. Mamoun Fansa.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Drapeau. Jesseca Paquette.

Early hominins, such as australopithecines, are characterized by bipedality and enlarged posterior teeth. Originally, these traits were thought to be adaptations to an open environment. However, discoveries of older hominins, such as Ardipithecus that were possibly only occasionally bipedal and did not have enlarged teeth, have refocused the origins of early hominins within a much more closed, wooded setting. Even the later australopithecines are currently cast as inhabitants of mosaic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only André Wegener Sleeswyk.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Klaus Schneider.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne Stoll. George Stoll.

This is an abstract from the "Technique and Interpretation in the Archaeology of Rock Art" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The painted parietal art of prehistoric San Bushmen of southern Africa has been in the public eye since the 1920s. Iconographic and stylistic differences within the San artistic corpus have been attributed to distinctions of time and space within and among the many centers of image concentration. Rock art found in the ravines...