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African Archaeology (Previously known as the Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology)

Series editors: Kevin MacDonald (UCL) and Paul Lane (Cambridge)

Past decades have witnessed a revolution in the archaeological narratives of early African agriculture, technology, urbanism and socio-political complexity. Indeed, the archaeology of Africa continues to expand significantly, with three major international journals working to capacity to publish recent findings. However, given the vastness of the continent and the time depth of its past, field research remains relatively scattered. Each new data point therefore adds significantly to the bigger picture. This peer reviewed series (formerly known as the Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology series) focuses on new contributions to the Holocene archaeology of Africa, particularly primary information on important excavation projects and artifactual assemblage analyses which are beyond the scope of journal publication. In particular, we seek works relevant to the archaeology of food production, metallurgy, complex societies, historical archaeology and material culture studies. Contributions can be in English or French, and we encourage submissions from outside of the United Kingdom.

If you are interested in publishing in the African Archaeology sub-series, please contact: editor@barpublishing.com

For more information on this series and to view the full editorial board, please see our series brief.

£40.00
Author:
Laurel Phillipson with an introduction by Rodolfo Fattovich
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407304083
Paperback:
161pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, plans, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 77
BAR number:
S1926
In this book the author presents the results of more than ten years of systematic fieldwork and analysis of the stone tool assemblages in... More
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Holocene Prehistory of the Southern Cape, South Africa
Excavations at Blombos Cave and the Blombosfontein Nature Reserve
£46.00
Author:
Christopher Stuart Henshilwood
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303437
Paperback:
182pp, Includes 121 figures, maps, plans, tables, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 75
BAR number:
S1860
Sub Title:
Excavations at Blombos Cave and the Blombosfontein Nature Reserve
During 1992/3 nine Later Stone Age (LSA) coastal midden sites ranging in age from 6960 BP to 290 BP, and representing 28 depositional... More
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£39.00
Editors:
Timothy Insoll
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303345
Paperback:
153pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 74
BAR number:
S1847
This work presents and evaluates internal perspectives on the profile of archaeology in the University of Ghana, Legon, internationally,... More
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£31.00
Author:
Tereba Togola
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407301785
Paperback:
125pp, Includes 13 tables, 66 figures, 2 data Appendices and Gazetteer
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 73
BAR number:
S1736
The African region traditionally known to Malians as the Méma is a plain of deep alluvial deposits that lies west of the current... More
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Memory and the Mountain
Environmental Relations of the Wachagga of Kilimanjaro and Implications for Landscape Archaeology
£32.00
Author:
Timothy A R Clack
Publication Year:
2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407301174
Paperback:
119pp, Includes 26 maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 3 Appendices
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 72
BAR number:
S1679
Sub Title:
Environmental Relations of the Wachagga of Kilimanjaro and Implications for Landscape Archaeology
This book considers the relationships between memory, experience and landscape from insights gained conducting ethnographic research; its... More
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£67.00
Author:
Vanni Beltrami
Publication Year:
2007
Language:
Italian with English summaries
ISBN:
9781407301020
Paperback:
263pp, Illustrated throughout with maps photographs plans and drawings. With additional material online (colour photographs).
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 71
BAR number:
S1667
Sub Title:
Dalla Preistoria ai tempi dei nomadi Tubu From prehistory to the times of the nomadic Tubus
The Tubus are a diversified pastoral nomadic people who speak two very similar dialects and form a single cultural community, extending... More
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Archaeofaunal remains from the past 4000 years in Sahelian West Africa
Domestic livestock subsistence strategies and environmental changes
£87.00
Author:
Veerle Linseele
Publication Year:
2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407300948
Paperback:
348pp, Includes 56 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 15 tables, 4 data Appendices
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 70
BAR number:
S1658
Sub Title:
Domestic livestock subsistence strategies and environmental changes
The faunal assemblages that are the subject of this study were excavated in northern Burkina Faso and the southern Lake Chad area, within... More
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£100.00
Author:
John Anthony Calabrese
Publication Year:
2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407300290
Paperback:
399pp, Includes 260 figures, maps, plans, drawings, tables and photographs, 8 data Appendices
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 69
BAR number:
S1617
Sub Title:
Ethnicity, class and polity
This work explains the rise of social and political complexity in the area of the confluence of the Shashi and Limpopo Rivers in southern... More
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£68.00
Author:
Joséphine Lesur
Publication Year:
2007
Language:
French with English abstract
ISBN:
9781407300191
Paperback:
270pp, Includes 105 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 49 tables, 3 data Appendices
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 68
BAR number:
S1602
The main goal of this research is to know the exploitation of the faunal diversity during the Holocene in the Horn of Africa, especially... More
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Archéologie du Diamaré au Cameroun Septentrional
Milieux et peuplements entre Mandara, Logone, Bénoué et Tchad pendant les deux derniers millénaires
£49.00
Author:
Alain Marliac
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
French with English foreword and abstract
ISBN:
9781841719788
Paperback:
195pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs including 3 colour maps. Index of sites and 4 data Appendices
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 67
BAR number:
S1549
Sub Title:
Milieux et peuplements entre Mandara, Logone, Bénoué et Tchad pendant les deux derniers millénaires
This book is a presentation of North Cameroon, and, as required, the neighbouring regions' prehistory, back to the most remote... More
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£29.00
Author:
Andrew B. Smith
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841719696
Paperback:
107pp, Includes 61 figures, maps drawings plans and photographs, 25 tables. 3 data Appendices
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 66
BAR number:
S1537
The research design underlying this work is based on attempts to try to find the archaeology of the aboriginal herding people of the... More
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Safeguarding Africa's Archaeological Past
Selected papers from a workshop held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2001
£22.00
Editors:
Niall Finneran
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841718927
Paperback:
62pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, tables and figures
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 65
BAR number:
S1454
Sub Title:
Selected papers from a workshop held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2001
This book includes eight papers from a workshop held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 2001. More
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