Africa (Continent) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dilpreet Basanti.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper uses micro-CT and funerary taphonomy to reconstruct ancient Aksumite burials (50-400 AD). Aksum, in northern Ethiopia, was the capital of an ancient polity that spread across the northern Horn of Africa and became a major power in the Indian Ocean trade. The most notable remains of the ancient capital are its towering funerary stelae and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andy Herries. Matt Caruana. Alex Blackwood. Matthew Meredith-Williams. Coen Wilson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Amanzi Springs Acheulian site in South Africa was first excavated by Ray Inskeep and then Hilary Deacon for his Masters project in the 1960s. Deacon excavated two spring he designated Areas 1 and 2 and this work suggested that Amanzi Springs preserved stratified Acheulian bearing deposits, something rare in the South African archaeological record. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dilpreet Basanti.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents micro-CT histological data on bone samples from Aksum’s Stelae Park cemetery (AD 50–400). Aksum was the capital of an ancient polity (AD 50–800) that spread across the northern Horn of Africa and was a major global power in the Indian Ocean trade. The most notable lasting remains of the ancient capital are its towering funerary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only E Herbert.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only D Soitzek.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregor Bader. Lyn Wadley. Christian Sommer. Nicholas Conard.

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. The final MSA of southern Africa (~40–28ka) represents one of the most understudied technocomplexes in this part of the world. Researchers often focused on earlier time periods or those shortly after, encompassing the transition between Middle and Later Stone Age....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Ann Stahl

Field notes from the 2000-2001 Banda Research Project Regional Testing of archaeological sites, Banda area, Brong-Ahafo Region, Ghana. The volume includes notes on field investigations at 22 sites directed by Leith Smith and observations on excavated ceramic assemblages by Ann Stahl. Typed transcriptions of field notes are accompanied by tracings of original plan and profile maps. Handwritten notes on this digitized version of Ann Stahl's copy of the Regional Testing notes are transcribed as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rüdiger Vossen.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul T Nicholson.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Ahmed Nassr. Zeljko Rezek.

This is an abstract from the "Variability: A Reassessment of Its Meaning, Afforded Range, and the Relation to Process" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2022 we recorded more than 40 variously dense stone artifact concentrations of the Middle Stone Age in northern Butana between the Nile Valley and the Atbara paleolake in east-central Sudan. In general, the entire region between the Upper Egypt and the Ethiopian Highlands has seen very little...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cannon Fairbairn.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Motherhood" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. To understand the usage of breastfeeding in ancient Egyptian art and ritual it is necessary to examine and explore the ancient perspectives and beliefs which contextualized their creation. This includes the role of breastfeeding in a child’s upbringing and growth as well as the relationship between a child and its nurse (whether mother or wet-nurse) with my...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Saša Caval.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mauritius was a “terra incognita et nullius” for Europeans before the sixteenth century. With the arrival of the Dutch (1638–1710), French (1715–1810), and British (1810–1968) colonizers, and the bondsmen they brought, the island became a significant part of the global sugar production. The workforce was gathered from all around the Indian Ocean and beyond....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeleine Bassett.

The Somali Coast has long been a center of global commerce. At the confluence of the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, port cities like Zeila and Berbera witnessed the arrival of Greek and Roman traders (ca. AD200) and Chinese merchants (ca. AD1300). Contacts with Muslim merchants from the Arabian Peninsula (ca. AD800) were particularly transformative, and by the tenth century, communities across Djibouti and Somaliland were converts. Scholars have hypothesized that pre-Islamic "monument sites"...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Dueppen. Daphne Gallagher.

Ancient villages in western Burkina Faso were long-lived communities, temporally rooted in deep social histories experienced in the built environment and local geography. The site of Kirikongo, continuously inhabited from ca. 100 CE to 1700 CE, and composed of 13 separate tells (mounds), exemplifies these spatio-temporal dynamics, as over time the economic and social characters of tells, and their spatial positioning and characteristics changed dramatically despite maintenance of certain spatial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefano Biagetti. Stefania Merlo. Elhadi Adam. Francesc C. Conesa. Enrico Crema.

At the end of the African Humid Period (c. 5000 years ago), the Sahara become dry. Yet, in spite of the onset of current arid conditions, human societies found successful strategies to cope with reduced rainfall and patchy natural resources. Archaeological evidence from the arid Sahara, dated from the last five millennia, can be studied by means of Earth Observation techniques. In this paper, we will present the results of our research from central Sahara, aimed at the remote reconstruction of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aribidesi Usman.

This paper will report the 2017 excavation at Okete-Kakini site near the king’s (Attah) palace in Idah. Okete-Kakini was the residential area of Attah’s eunuchs (amonoji), one of the two major palace officials who carried out various functions for the Attah. The aim of the investigation is to identify the activities of the palatine elites through an examination of their material culture found in archaeological excavations. It is thought that the members of the palatine groups, like the formal...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ann B. Stahl.

A final project report on 1989 and 1990 investigations at Makala Kataa (Banda area, Ghana). The report was submitted to the Wenner Gren Foundation (source of 1989 funds, Gr #5133) and the National Geographic Society (source of 1990 funds, Grant 4313-90), and the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin ELOUGA.

This is an abstract from the "Reflections, Practice, and Ethics in Historical Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Rescue archaeology is recent in Cameroon. Despite the legal and regulatory measures taken by the state, construction and exploitation of natural resources projects rescue archaeology is not developed in the field. The destruction of historical, archaeological, and ethnographic heritage is tremendous. The Chad-Cameroon...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frank Feeley.

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. In 2008 an eroding midden along Iceland’s western coast was discovered to be part of a large 15th century commercial fishing station - the first of its kind to be found in Iceland. The site was clearly endangered by coastal erosion and with support from the National Science Foundation rescue excavations were carried out over...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alessandra Cianciosi.

This is an abstract from the "Islands around Africa: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While often forgotten, there are small African islands that played a crucial role in modern history and have often forgotten stories to tell about the impact of colonialism and the diaspora of enslaved and indentured workers. Their role emerged with the emergence of epidemic diseases and the need to manage the health risks...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Goldstein. Elisabeth Hildebrand. Michael Storozum. Lawrence Robbins.

The pluvial conditions during the African Humid Period of the Early-to-Mid Holocene profoundly influenced environments across northern and eastern Africa, expanding lakes, rivers, and grassland ecologies. Archaeologists have often explained human responses to these increasingly aquatic environment as in terms of an increasing reliance on fisher-hunter-gatherer economies. Similarly, once the AHP ended, humans abandoned these lifeways. These perspectives are overly deterministic; in this paper, we...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bethany Simpson. Emily Cole.

This paper presents the results of the 2016 field season at the Graeco-Roman Village of Qarah el-Hamra. Located along the north shore of Lake Qaroun, the site was discovered in 2003 by the UCLA Fayum Project, and a magnetic survey in 2004 revealed the presence of an extensive settlement. Excavation that same year confirmed the existence of Greco-Roman remains, however the site remained otherwise unexplored until the start of this new field project in 2016. The new Qarah el-Hamra Excavation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter R Jones.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanuel Beyin.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Advances and Debates in the Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The western periphery of the Red Sea (WPRS) occupies a pivotal location as a potential biogeographic corridor for hominin movement between Africa and Southwest Asia. Its long, coastal niche that once extended into the Danakil Depression would have made the WPRS a natural destination for hominins dispersing from the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Gilbert.

This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Despite recent advances in chronometric techniques, the geological ages of many Plio-Pleistocene deposits containing early hominins, particularly those in South Africa, remain in doubt. Consequently, biochronology and relative faunal dating methods remain valuable age-assessment tools, and cercopithecoid monkeys have historically been among the most biochronologically useful faunal elements....