Africa (Continent) (Geographic Keyword)

651-675 (957 Records)

Patterns of settlement changes in colonial Cameroon: a theoretical approach. (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin ELOUGA.

The theoretical basis of historical archaeology in Cameroon is being set down. Ongoing research in this field focusses on the formative period, european hegemony and the decolonisation of Cameroon. Despite the availability of abundant historical data related to the recent past of Cameroon, questions still come up to which research must find answers: the processes of state formation, subsistence activities and their environmental impact, the relationships between social groups and the reshaping...


People and Palaeoclimates at the Diallowali Site Complex: Changing patterns along the Middle Senegal Valley throughout the 1st millennium BC (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Coutros. Jessamy Doman.

The first millennium BC was a time of considerable social, technological, and environmental change for the peoples of West Africa. Despite the growing number and distribution of archaeological projects throughout the region, very little is known about this critical period. Likewise, many of the climate models currently in use lack the sufficient temporal or spatial resolution needed to provide context for the variety of changes occurring at a localized level. Recent research at the Diallowali...


Pervasive Landscapes of Inequality: Want and Abundance within a Hyperobject (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Gibbons.

As globalization matures, environmental, social, and economic factors continue to create ever-expanding landscapes of inequality. Among these drivers, human-driven environmental degradation has, for centuries, operated as a significant producer of inequality. Anthropogenic climate change today perpetuates and strengthens these multi-generational, regional-scale phenomena of landscape change. These processes, such as sediment erosion in Iceland during the past millennium, create a ‘second nature’...


Petrographic Perspectives on Ceramic Technology and Provenance in Northern Botswana (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David Killick. Edwin Wilmsen.

This is an abstract from the "Cross-Cultural Petrographic Studies of Ceramic Traditions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the last 45 years, Wilmsen, James Denbow, and others have recovered ceramics from nearly thirty excavated sites, in the northern half of Botswana. Together with Phenyo Thebe and Ann Griffiths, Wilmsen has also sampled clays and sands throughout the region, has obtained samples of raw materials, and prepared pastes and pots...


Pfahlbauten in Afrika, Phil. Diss. (1978)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Otto Turza.

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...


Photo Log (2019)
DATASET Jay Stephens.

Photo log for photos taken during the course of this NSF project (photo log number corresponds to photos uploaded to this tDAR project)


Photograph of Mumba Rockshelter
IMAGE Mary Prendergast.

View of Mumba Rockshelter from the northwest (photograph by M. Prendergast). Note total station and person at right side for scale.


Photograph of Mumba Rockshelter from above
IMAGE Mary Prendergast.

View of Mumba Rockshelter from above, with excavation units indicated. Photograph by M. Prendergast.


Photographic field work in Tunisia in 1971 (1971)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Bruce Bevan

Aerial photography with a bipod and hydrogen-filled balloon in Tunisia. Recording mosaics and architecture. Assist Julian Whittlesey in his site recording for Margaret Alexander.


Photographs of Sonai Rockshelter
IMAGE Mary Prendergast.

Sonai Rockshelter, viewed from the south downslope (left), and from the west upslope (right), prior to excavation. Recent Hadza hearths are visible towards the east wall in the right-hand photograph. Photographs by M. Prendergast


Photos from NSF BCS 1852958 (2023)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jay Stephens.

Please email jas5@arizona.edu for copies of object photos from NSF BCS 1852958. Unfortunately we do not have enough file room on our tDAR site for all photographs.


Phytolith Analysis of Experimental Fires: Insights into the Prehistory of Fire (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Georgia Oppenheim. Amanda Stricklan. Rahab Kinyanjui. Sarah Hlubik. David Braun.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cooking Hypothesis suggests the morphological changes in the Homo lineage, including larger brains, were due to incorporating controlled combustion to cook food. Most archaeological evidence for fire comes from cave sites, which are less likely to be exposed to post-depositional processes (e.g. wind and water) that can destroy combustion evidence. Yet the...


Phytolithic Analysis of Site FxJj 20 AB (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Stricklan. Sarah Hlubik. Rahab Kinyanjui. David Braun. Georgia Oppenheim.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Controlled fire could have significantly impacted hominin evolution, providing an adaptive release resulting in reduced teeth and gut size, and larger brains. Evidence of hominin controlled fire is sparse in the early Pleistocene archaeological record. These sites are usually in open-air contexts where taphonomic factors can obscure the identification of...


Place Of Refuge: "The Fighting Missionary", Alexander Merensky, And The Forts Of Botshabelo Mission Station, South Africa. (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalie J Swanepoel.

Botshabelo Mission Station, Mpumalanga, South Africa was established in 1865 within the borders of the Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek (ZAR) by Alexander Merensky and groups of Bapedi and Bakopa converts and refugees, all of whom had been displaced from territories further to the north through processes of intra-societal and colonial violence. It is perhaps for this reason that the mission station boasted three forts, unusual features for such a site. This paper examines the ways in which the object...


Plan of Gileodabeshta 2 excavations
IMAGE Mary Prendergast.

Plan of Gileodabeshta 2 excavations


Plan of Jangwani 2 excavations
IMAGE Mary Prendergast.

Plan of Jangwani 2 excavations


Plan of Mumba Rockshelter, 2005-6 excavations
IMAGE Mary Prendergast.

Plan of Mumba Rockshelter, showing Kohl-Larsen excavation area (center) and dump (left), and Mehlman’s trenches (I-IV) and Prendergast et al.'s trenches (5-8). Adapted by M. Prendergast from the original plan drawn by Mehlman (1989:Figure 4.2). Tr. = Trench/Unit


Plan of Sonai Rockshelter
IMAGE Mary Prendergast.

Plan of Sonai, showing the areas of excavation in 2005-2006


Plant Management, Resilience and Environmental Changes in the Wetlands of Nigeria (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Emuobosa Orijemie.

Palaeoenvironmental data obtained from coastal areas (wetlands) of southern Nigeria reveal three main periods of climatic changes from the Mid Holocene-Present namely (i) very wet (ca. 6,000-5,000 BP), (ii) dry (ca. 4,500-2,500 BP) and (iii) humid periods (ca. 2,500-Present). This paper explores the dynamic ways in which the culture of plant management and plant food resources in these marginal lands has been expressed within the context of environmental change. The similarities in the...


Political Ecology Materialized in a Medieval Icelandic Landscape (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Catlin.

This is an abstract from the "Materializing Political Ecology: Landscape, Power, and Inequality" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Past ecological and political-economic changes are embedded in the materiality of the landscape, and investigating correlations between such changes can suggest how relationships between ecology and economy were structured and managed within past societies. Iceland was first settled in the late ninth century by wealthy...


Post-depositional Processes and Their Impact of Inferences of Behavior at FxJj 34 (Koobi Fora Formation, Northern Kenya) (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua Frye. Jonothan Reeves. Matthew Douglass. David Braun.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It is often argued that surface assemblages provide insight into human behaviors at a regional scale. Measures of artifact use life and reduction intensity at this broad scale are often used to characterize the structure of stone tool use across space. However, once re-exposed, artifacts are subject to a variety of processes that potentially bias the...


Post-Depositional Ridge Rounding on Banded Ironstone and the Condition of the Fauresmith Artifacts at Bestwood, South Africa (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mel Miller.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Transitional lithics have the potential to inform researchers about innovation during significant periods of human evolution. The Fauresmith, an Early Stone Age (ESA) to Middle Stone Age (MSA) transitional industry in South Africa, is marked by the appearance of blade technology and composite tools alongside continuing traditions of large cutting tools. This...


Pots, Ethnoarchaeology, and Snake-Oil: James Skibo’s Lasting Impact on the Future of Archaeology (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John Arthur.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Method and Theory: Papers in Honor of James M. Skibo, Part I" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. James Skibo changed the way we study pottery. Jim’s archaeological career incorporated many different facets of archaeological research including experimental archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, archaeology, and theory, all focusing on pottery research. One of his biggest influences is combining ethnoarchaeology and...


Pottery making in the village of use near Benin City, Nigeria (1969)
DOCUMENT Citation Only F Willett. G Connah.

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...


Pottery making in Upper Egypt: a study of pottery firing (1989)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul T Nicholson. H L Patterson.

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...