Republic of Ghana (Country) (Geographic Keyword)

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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.

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...

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 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.

Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa, Bilanz 2011 (2011)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Uploaded by: adam brin

Experiments in Stone-Flaking Design Space and Implications for Social Learning Models (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Moore.

Social learning by modern humans led to the repetition and persistence of stone tool forms we see in the recent archaeological record. The emergence of similar patterning in early hominin assemblages is often assumed to track the beginnings of social learning. Less clear is what was being socially transmitted during this early period. One possibility is that hominins learned how to make objects according to a shared ‘mental template’. A second possibility is that specific sequences were learned,...

Exploring the Material Culture of the 19th Century Slave Trade in Coastal Guinea (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Goldberg.

As the British Navy patrolled the West African coast in an effort to enforce the cessation of the Atlantic Slave Trade beginning in the early nineteenth century, several American and European traders shifted their focus a slightly inland, establishing trading sites on the more visibly protected tidal branches of the Rio Pongo of coastal Guinea. This paper explores the material culture used and maintained by one of these establishments at the site of Gambia, considering how material consumption...

Extending Paleoanthropology with the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marc Kissel. Agustin Fuentes.

This is an abstract from the "The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis and Human Origins: Archaeological Perspectives" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Discerning the patterns and processes of human origins has been mostly centered on a gene-eye’s view of fitness landscapes. This interpretive structure is partiality undermined by modern biological thought that emphasizes a more holistic approach to evolution. We suggest that the broader framework of the...

Figurations rupestres sahariennes de chars chevaux: recherches expérimentales sur les véhicules à timons multiples (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J Spruytte.

File Format Cheat Sheet (2018)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lisa Goddard.

This handout, "File Format Cheat Sheet," is a part of the Improving African Futures Using Lessons from the Past (IAfF) Digital Resource Guides. This guide describes access and archival file formats that are required when creating digital objects. A table of recommended archival and access formats for various media types are included.

Final Report on National Science Foundation Grant BCS-0751350, "Genealogies of Practice & Global Entanglements in Banda, Ghana, AD 1000-1900." (2012)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ann B. Stahl.

A final project report on 2008-2009 investigations at Ngre Kataa, Bui Kataa and Banda 13 in the Banda area, Ghana. The report was submitted to the National Science Foundation (Grant SBR 9410726) and the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board.

Final Report on National Science Foundation Grant SBR 9410726, "The Political Economy of Banda, Ghana, 1700-1925." (1998)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ann B. Stahl.

A final project report on 1994 investigations at Makala Kataa, 1995 excavations at Kuulo Kataa, and ethnographic study of contemporary potting in the Banda area, Ghana. The report was submitted to the National Science Foundation (Grant SBR 9410726) and the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board.

Final Report on National Science Foundation Grant SBR-9911690, "A Regional Perspective on the Archaeology of Global Encounters, Banda, Ghana, AD 1300-1825." (2003)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ann B. Stahl.

A final project report on investigations at Kuulo Kataa in the year 2000 and a program of regional site testing in the Banda area, Ghana. The report was submitted to the National Science Foundation (Grant SBR 9911690) and the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board.

Fipa Ironworking and Its Technological Style (1996)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Randi Barndon.

Flexibility Against Fragility at the Diallowali Site System during the 1st Millennium BC (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Coutros.

The first millennium BC was a period of dramatic social and environmental change throughout West Africa. Along the Middle Senegal Valley (MSV), communities experienced rapid and dramatic changes to biospheric conditions accompanied by largescale technological, social, and economic reorganizations. On the western edge of the MSV, the inhabitants of the Diallowali site system developed a network of flexible institutions capable of maintaining a thriving community throughout this turbulent period....

Foodscapes as Gendered Landscapes in West Africa (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Logan. Dela Kuma.

Food is an integral part of how people interact with landscape, and tasks associated with food production, preparation, and consumption are often strongly gendered. Using gendered taskscapes (Logan and Cruz 2014) as a starting point, we forward the notion of foodscape as a lens through which to see the varied and multi-scalar forms that gender may take on a landscape. Using case studies from both ancient and modern West Africa, we examine how tracing food production, preparation, and consumption...

Foodways in Atlantic Era West Africa – Ghana: Towards an Archaeology of Daily Life (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dela Kuma.

In the context of Africa, foodways are usually portrayed very differently than in the archaeology of food literature. Food in West Africa is depicted by its primary historians as shrouded in continuous food insecurities and largely lacking differentiated cuisines. However, recent archaeological and historical research in Atlantic era West African foodways have highlighted the dynamic nature of West African foodways. Despite these advancement, the full processes through which American crops...

The forgotten significance of the Later Stone Age sites near Hora Mountain, Mzimba District, Malawi (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Thompson. Alan Morris. Flora Schilt. Andrew Zipkin. Kendra Sirak.

In 1950, J. Desmond Clark led excavations at a Later Stone Age rock shelter at Hora Mountain, a large inselberg overlooking a modern floodplain in the Mzimba District of northern Malawi. At the Hora 1 site, he recovered two human skeletons, one male and one female, along with a rich – but superficially described and undated – cultural sequence. In 2016, our renewed excavations recovered a wealth of lithic, faunal, and other materials such as mollusk shell beads and ochre. Our re-examination of...

Fowling and Food Security in the Faroe Islands (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Seth Brewington.

Seabird fowling has long played an important role in the traditional domestic economy of the Faroe Islands, a small North Atlantic archipelago. Direct evidence for seabird exploitation in the earliest period of Faroese prehistory has been lacking, however. In this paper, I present new archaeofaunal evidence for substantial and sustained seabird exploitation in the Faroe Islands from the 9th through 13th centuries CE. The data suggest that seabirds represented a significant resource in the...

From Making to Mobilizing History in Banda: Learning from Ann Stahl’s Place-Based Approach to Archaeology (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Logan.

This is an abstract from the "Crafting Archaeological Practice in Africa and Beyond: Celebrating the Contributions of Ann B. Stahl to Global Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ann Stahl’s career spans over 40 years, and for most of that time, she has focused on working in one small place in central Ghana known as Banda. Banda is different than most regions where archaeologists usually conduct sustained, long-term fieldwork: it was not a...

From Medieval Wool Tunics to Bone Powder: Rapid Degradation of Norse Middens in Southwest Greenland (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Konrad Smiarowski. Christian Madsen. Michael Nielsen.

This presentation is one of the products of a series of ongoing inter-connected, international, interdisciplinary fieldwork projects coordinated by the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) research cooperative since 2005 in Greenland. The projects drew upon more than a century of prior field research, where four generations of archaeologists described and assessed organic preservation conditions at their sites in several regions of the Norse Eastern Settlement. This created a unique...

From Staple to Shameful (and Back Again?): The Changing Fortunes of Seaweeds in the North Atlantic (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dawn Elise Mooney.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeophycology: New (Ethno)Archaeological Approaches to Understand the Contribution of Seaweed to the Subsistence and Social Life of Coastal Populations" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Seaweeds are in vogue: new initiatives tout seaweed farming as a solution to global problems of food insecurity that can simultaneously combat climate change through carbon sequestration and regenerate damaged marine environments....

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