The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology (Oxford Handbooks)

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Contents
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List of Contributors
PART I: INTRODUCTION
	1. Introducing African archaeology
PART II: DOING AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY: THEORY, METHOD, PRACTICE
	2. Archaeological practice in Africa: a historical perspective
	3. Oral history, oral traditions, and archaeology: the application of structural analyses
	4. Language, linguistics, and archaeology: their integration in the study of African prehistory
	5. Genetics and archaeology
	6. Archaeology and migration in Africa
	7. Ethnoarchaeological research in Africa
	8. Studying African stone tools
	9. A century of ceramic studies in Africa
	10. The archaeology of African metalworking
	11. Rock art research in Africa
	12. The archaeology of ritual and religions in Africa
	13. Material culture, space, and identity
	14. Landscape archaeology
	15. Maritime archaeology in Africa
	16. Managing Africa’s archaeological heritage
	17. Museums and public archaeology in Africa
	18. Archaeology and education
	19. Politics, ideology, and indigenous perspectives
PART III: BECOMING HUMAN
	20. Hominin evolution as the context for African prehistory
	21. The Oldowan: early hominins and the beginning of human culture
	22. The African Acheulean: an archaeological summary
	23. Genetic and fossil evidence for modern human origins
	24. Beyond modernity
PART IV: HUNTERS, GATHERERS, AND INTENSIFIERS: THE DIVERSITY OF AFRICAN FORAGERS
	25. Theoretical frameworks for understanding African hunter-gatherers
	26. Hunter-gatherers in southern Africa before 20,000 years ago
	27. The Middle Stone Age of eastern Africa
	28. Hunting and gathering in Africa’s tropical forests at the end of the Pleistocene and in the early Holocene
	29. Hunter-gatherers of the Nile Valley and the Sahara before 12,000 years ago
	30. Hunter-gatherers of the Maghreb 25,000–6,000 years ago
	31. Hunter-gatherer-fishers of the Sahara and the Sahel 12,000–4,000 years ago
	32. Hunter-gatherer-fishers of eastern and south-central Africa since 20,000 years ago
	33. Southern African hunter-gatherers of the last 25,000 years
PART V: FOOD FOR THOUGHT: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF AFRICAN PASTORALIST AND FARMING COMMUNITIES
	34. Domesticating animals in Africa
	35. Domesticating plants in Africa
	36. The emergence and spread of herding in Northern Africa: a critical reappraisal
	37. Early farming societies along the Nile
	38. Pathways to food production in the Sahel
	39. Archaeological evidence for the emergence of food production in the Horn of Africa
	40. The archaeology of pastoralism and stock-keeping in East Africa
	41. The Stone to Metal Age in West Africa
	42. The appearance and development of metallurgy south of the Sahara
	43. Archaeologies of the Bantu expansion
	44. The archaeology of herding in southernmost Africa
	45. Early Farming Communities of southern and south-central Africa
	46. The archaeology of agricultural intensification in Africa
PART VI: POWER, PRESTIGE, AND CONSUMPTION: AFRICAN TOWNS AND STATES AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS
	47. The archaeology of African urbanism
	48. The archaeology of the precolonial state in Africa
	49. The archaeology of clan- and lineage-based societies in Africa
	50. Pharaonic Egypt
	51. Kerma and Kush and their neighbours
	52. Berber, Phoenicio-Punic, and Greek North Africa
	53. Roman Africa and the Sahara
	54. Medieval and post-medieval states of the Nile Valley
	55. Complex societies of the Eritrean/Ethiopian highlands and their neighbours
	56. States, trade, and ethnicities in the Maghreb
	57. Complex societies, urbanism, and trade in the western Sahel
	58. States and trade in the central Sahel
	59. Towns and states of the West African forest belt
	60. Recent farming communities and states in the Congo Basin and its environs
	61. The emergence of states in Great Lakes Africa
	62. The Swahili world
	63. The Zimbabwe Culture and its neighbours: origins, development, and consequences of social complexity in southern Africa
	64. Southern African late farming communities
	65. Madagascar: from initial settlement to the growth of kingdoms
PART VII: AFRICAN SOCIETIES AND THE MODERN WORLD SYSTEM
	66. The archaeology of the Ottoman empire in northern and northeastern Africa
	67. Contexts of interaction: the archaeology of European exploration and expansion in western and southern Africa in comparative perspective
	68. An archaeological perspective on West Africa and the post-1500 Atlantic world
	69. Connecting the archaeologies of the Atlantic world: Africa and the African diasporas
	70. The archaeology of colonial encounters in eastern Africa
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