East Africa 2000 BP to the Present: Mosaics and Interactions (2025)

East African Archaeology

Any volume that features archaeologists of African descent is well worth a thorough inspection to consider changes that may be taking place within the discipline. All the more important, then, is this volume which is coedited by a Kenyan, predominantly features scholars from Kenya and Tanzania, and sets out to indicate the breadth of archaeological initiatives being undertaken in East Africa today. Of still greater note is that it is published by a respected western academic press.

13 Sub-Saharan Africa: archaeology

The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, 2013

This chapter discusses human migrations south of the Sahara during the Holocene, focused mainly on pastoral populations in eastern Africa and the migrations of Bantu speakers during the past 3000 years. The dating provided by archaeology currently places these migrations more recently than that derived from linguistics.

Peter Mitchell and Paul Lane (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2013

published in European Journal of Archaeology 18 (1) 2015, 147–184.

Archaeology, Societies and Environments in Africa

2014

The signed papers are the sole responsibility of their authors. Les textes signés sont de la seule responsabilité de leurs auteurs. Contacts: General Secretariat of the U.I.S.P.P.

Field Manual for African Archaeology

A History of African Archaeology

Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 1991

This 378-page book (Robertshaw 1990) has three chapters which deal with the whole of Africa and ten on the history of archaeology in different African sub-regions. Three chapters are personal memoirs of pioneer archaeologists in Africa still alive, and the volume is concluded by an overall analysis. Structure of the book The chapters can be broken down as tbllows: General Africa, including tile introduction and conclusion

Connecting African Diaspora and West African Historical Archaeologies

Historical Archaeology, 2012

+LVWRULFDO DUFKDHRORJ\ LV D JURZLQJ DQG YLEUDQW ¿HOG RI LQTXLU\ in West Africa. Since the 1980s, there has been a steady increase in the number of studies related to the Atlantic trade and indigenous/European interaction. As the departure point for Africans entering the diaspora, West Africa should be at the forefront of the African Atlantic archaeology, a concept most recently championed by Ogundiran and Falola. Despite WKH ORJLVWLFDO FKDOOHQJHV WKDW RIWHQ LQKLELW ¿HOGZRUN DV ZHOO DV GLI¿FXOWLHV LQ FRPPXQLFDWLRQ EHWZHHQ :HVWHUQ DQG $IULFDQ VFKRODUV VLJQL¿FDQW DPRXQWV RI ZRUN KDYH EHHQ FDUULHG RXW in West Africa that can inform diaspora and African Atlantic archaeology. By presenting the current state of West African historical archaeology as it relates to common questions and themes within African diaspora studies, the following review serves as a means of initiating and encouraging in-depth engagement and discussion between researchers in archaeology and LQ UHODWHG

Philip Allsworth-Jones (ed.). West African archaeology: new developments, new perspectives (British Archaeological Reports International Series 2164). x+170 pages, 101 figures, 5 tables. 2010. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-4073-0708-4 paperback £39

Antiquity, 2011

processes of interaction and adaptation within the framework of the ever-changing environment of the eastern desert. The volume covers a wide range of disciplines, looking at both the contemporary and historical, including archaeology, biology, conservation science, Egyptology and zoology. These contributions represent the proceedings of an ACACIA (Arid Climate, Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa) workshop, which was held at the University of Cologne in Germany in December 2007.

African Diaspora Archaeology

The Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) has launched a new publication series, entitled "Perspectives from Historical Archaeology," which will provide subject and regional readers on a variety of topics of interest to archaeologists and scholars in related fields. Each volume includes an introduction by the compiler that reviews historical archaeology’s work on the topic. "Perspectives" volumes will be available in both perfect bound and pdf formats, and sales proceeds benefit the Society’s educational and research missions. The first of the new "Perspectives" is entitled African Diaspora Archaeology, compiled by Chris Fennell. This publication includes an introduction that reviews the field and 23 articles selected from the Historical Archaeology Journal. Including studies from Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and both the northern and southern U.S., this volume provides a fascinating look at African culture, sites, and artifacts and traces the transition of African peoples from the Old World to the New. A table of contents and abstracts is set out below. You can obtain volumes from the "Perspectives" Series online at: http://stores.lulu.com/shabookstore