Africa (Continent) (Geographic Keyword)

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Equity, Access, and the Privilege of “Best Practice” in Archaeological Fieldwork (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Thompson. Benjamin Davies.

This is an abstract from the "Developing Paleolithic Excavation Methods for the Twenty-First Century" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Technological advances in digital imagery, field recording, and mapping have transformed the ability of archaeologists to rapidly collect, store, and analyze large quantities of high-resolution field data. In spite of steadily lowering prices and broader consumer accessibility over the years, the costs associated...

Erasing the Past: The Intentional Forgetting of Amarna Period Artifacts in the Tomb of Tutankhamun (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Phelps.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tutankhamun, one of the last kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt (circa 1330-1300 BCE), was buried in an non-royal tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. His burial assemblage is one of the most intact burials ever discovered in Egypt. Amongst the many items, are atypical items that have not been found in other late Eighteenth Dynasty burials....

Erb Tanks Master Lithic Database (2015)

DATASET Theodore Marks.

This database stores provenience and metric data for lithic artifacts excavated from 2009-2012 at Erb Tanks Rockshelter, a Middle and Later Stone Age site from the Central Namib Desert, Namibia. In addition, trace element data derived from pXRF analysis of lithic artifacts as well as several lithic raw material sources are included in the database. Coordinates for lithic raw material sources are provided in decimal degree format. Coordinates for Erb Tanks Rockshelter are redacted for the site's...

Escaping from the Tomb: A Spatial Analysis of Possible Escape Routes in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Phelps.

Howard Carter discovered the relatively intact tomb of Tutankhamun (KV 62), one of the last kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, in the Valley of the Kings in 1922. Prior to the discovery, Carter discovered several small artifacts in the cliffs above the valley’s floor, which he proclaimed were indicators of a possible escape route of the ancient tomb raiders from the Valley of the Kings. During the excavation of the tomb, Carter also claimed to have identified two distinct robberies that...

Essential Contributions from African to Global Archaeology: Introduction (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Willeke Wendrich.

This is an abstract from the "Essential Contributions from African to Global Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology throughout the African continent in the last few decades has provided important insights into questions that are relevant to archaeology worldwide. Yet, these new theoretical perspectives and datasets have not been widely incorporated into scholarship elsewhere in the world, perhaps a latent effect of lingering...

Establishing Baselines for Stone Tool Variation Across the Early Pleistocene: A Least Effort Approach (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Reeves. Levi Raskin. Matthew Douglass. David Braun.

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. Our understanding of the evolution of human behavior is largely predicated on how stone tools vary through time and across space. Despite a long history of research, the behavioral processes associated with Early Pleistocene lithic technology remain debated. Some research suggests that lithic...

Estimating the Temporality of Iron Smelting sites in Africa by Coupling Radiocarbon and Archeomagnetism (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gwenael Herve. Caroline Robion-Brunner. Giorgia Ricci. Emmanuelle Delque-Kolic. Didier N'Dah.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Science and African Archaeology: Appreciating the Impact of David Killick" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The life of African iron smelting sites (duration and production rate) is poorly known because of the low number of dates per site and the dependence on radiocarbon. On two fields in Togo (Bandjeli district) and Benin (Aplahoué district), this methodological communication shows that coupling...

Ethno Archaeology in Ethiopia and its relevance for Archaeological Interpretation (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Desmond J Clark.

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...

Ethno-archaeology in Jenne, Mali (2000)

DOCUMENT Citation Only A la Violette.

Ethno-archaeology of pottery firing in Darfur, Sudan: implications for ceramic technology studies (1984)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalie Tobert.

Ethno-Archaeometry of Ochre Mineral Pigment Extraction, Transport, and Use in the Kenya Rift Valley (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Zipkin. Stanley Ambrose. Gideon Bartov. Alexander Taylor. Mercy Gakii.

Ochre occurs in African archaeological sites from the later Middle Pleistocene to the ethnographic present. Ochre is used worldwide for symbolic and functional purposes, and is often considered to be evidence for symbolic behavior by cognitively modern Paleolithic humans. Geochemical provenience analysis, complemented by ethnographic studies of ochre source exploitation, transport, and use, can elucidate whether culturally mediated source exploitation differs significantly from a least-cost...

An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to Traditional Farmer Knowledge and Fire Ecology in Eastern Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zoe Walder-Hoge.

This study will conduct ethnoarchaeological interviews of Eastern Tigrai rural consultants on traditional farmer knowledge, risk management and fire ecology. The data will enable the integration of farmer knowledge within an historical ecology framework to understand human-environment interactions taking place during the Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite periods (>800 BCE- CE 700). A previous palaeoenvironmental study examined extensive charcoalized wood and burned matter in the region, however an...

Ethnoarchaeological research in Asia (1989)

DOCUMENT Citation Only P B Griffin. W G Solheim.

Ethnoarchaeology in Africa (1983)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J Atherton.

Ethnoarchaeology in Egypt's City of the Dead (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod.

Many of the initial approaches to understanding ancient cultures were centered on ethnographic observations. These early studies tended towards overly simplistic arguments that often either overtly or inadvertently supported social Darwinism. Recent applications of ethnoarchaeology have also been accused of falling into similar pitfalls. While the critics are right to highlight the limitations of this approach, scholars can avoid making dangerous assumptions by working alongside the societies...

The ethnoarchaeology of hide working and flakes stone tool use in southern Ethiopia (1997)

DOCUMENT Citation Only S A Brandt. K J Weedman.

Ethnoarchäologische Untersuchungen zur rezenten Herstellung und Nutzung von Mahlsteinen in Nordost-Nigeria (1995)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Detlef Gronenborn. Mamoun Fansa.

Ethnoarchéologie et recherches en laboratoire: le cas des techniques céramiques (1992)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maurice Picon.

Ethnographic analogues for interpreting modified bones: some case from East-Africa (1989)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diane Gifford-Gonzalez.

Ethnographical observations in North Africa and archaeological interpretation: the pottery of the Maghreb (1965)

DOCUMENT Citation Only H Balfet.

The ethnography of pottery: a Fulani case seen in archaeological perspective (1972)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas David. Hilke Hennig.

Ethnological description of recent grinding implements of the Mahria (Northern Rizeigat) camel breeding nomads of Northern Darfur (1990)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Uta Holter.

Etudes experimentales sur l'attelage (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J Spruytte.

Evaluating the Effects of Human Disturbance on Middle Stone Age Surface Finds from Northern Malawi (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sheila Nightingale. Jessica C. Thompson. Jacob Davis. Flora Schilt. Jeong-Heon Choi.

Abundant surface scatters of Middle Stone Age artifacts are found throughout northern Malawi, eroding from remnant alluvial fan deposits (Chitimwe Beds). Surface surveys documenting these areas have guided the emplacement of 50+ archaeological test pits and excavations, many of which have yielded in situ MSA sites. However, the surficial evidence itself has been subject to less discussion and merits closer attention. At the Bruce site, surface artifacts were identified as part of an assemblage...

Everyday Objects and the Lived Experience: Inhabiting Gufuskálar, a Late Medieval Icelandic Fishing Station (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sant Mukh Khalsa.

This is an abstract from the "SANNA v2.2: Case Studies in the Social Archaeology of the North and North Atlantic" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Early Icelandic fishing stations are understood primarily through the shifting role of fishing within the Icelandic economy and the importance of fish provisioning within the North Atlantic. Thus, less focus has been placed on studying the lived experiences and domestic lives of people who worked at and...

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