Fire, Food, Farms, and Fortifications: Recent Advances in the Archaeology of Africa

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)

In this session, we present results of new and emerging work focusing on the African continent. Papers represent the wide range of periods and diversity of research topics in Africanist archaeology. Major themes include early fire and tool use; the beginnings of food production; and socioeconomic and settlement shifts during the Atlantic era. Regions covered span the continent, including Egypt and the Horn, as well as North, East, West, and Southern Africa.

Other Keywords
Settlement patterns • Africa • Middle Stone Age • Political economy • Geoarchaeology • Architecture • Lithic Technology • Lithics • Site Formation • Environmental Change

Geographic Keywords
AFRICA

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  1. Cereals and agricultural risk management in northern Sudan, past and present (2016)
  2. Cereals and Ceramics: Another Look at the Late Neolithic Development of the Butana Group in Eastern Sudan during the 4th Millennium BC (2016)
  3. Cinciliths: A new term describing systematic small-unretouched tool production (2016)
  4. Coastal marine resource exploitation during the Late Pleistocene at Contrebandiers Cave (Temara, Morocco) (2016)
  5. Earthen dwellings from Banda, Ghana: Geoarchaeological analyses of archaeological and modern structures (2016)
  6. Fieldwork on Iron Age sites of the Benoué Valley, Cameroon, in 2014 (2016)
  7. Identifying fire in Early Stone Age: A study of site FxJj20 AB, Koobi Fora, Kenya (2016)
  8. Late Holocene Foraging and Early Farming in Northwestern Zimbabwe: Excavations and Analysis of Rock Shelters and an Open‐Air Village Site (2016)
  9. Late Pleistocene lithic technological patterns in East Africa (2016)
  10. "More field than habitation, and far more fallow than field": Settlement Patterns, Farming Practices, and Demographic Change on the Abomey Plateau, Republic of Bénin (2016)
  11. Relocate, Aggregate, or Fortify?: Exploring Local Responses to Atlantic Era Entanglement in Southeastern Senegal (2016)
  12. A report of recent excavation at Okete-Kakini palace precint, Idah, Niger-Benue Confluence, Nigeria (2016)
  13. Rescue Excavations at Mai Adrasha (Ethiopia) (2016)
  14. Scaling Food Practices: Contextual Comparison of Animal and Plant Remains from Banda, Ghana, during the Early Atlantic Era (2016)
  15. Ye Olde Fishing Hole: A Late Paleolithic Fishing Camp, Wadi Kubbaniya, Egypt (2016)