African Archaeology A Critical Introduction,9781405101561

African Archaeology A Critical Introduction

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9781405101561
ISBN10: 1405101563
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-09-24
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

A landmark introduction to the archaeology of Africa that challenges misconceptions & claims about Africa's past and teaches students how to evaluate these claims. Provides an unprecedented and exciting introduction to the archaeology of Africa Challenges misconceptions & claims about Africa's past and teaches students how to evaluate these claims Includes a thoughtful introduction that explores the contexts that have shaped archaeological knowledge of Africa's past Lays out research questions that have shaped the contours of African archaeology Comprised of chapters specifically written for this volume by prominent archaeologists with regional and topical expertise

Author Biography

Ann Brower Stahl is Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University, SUNY

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface vii
Figures viii
Tables x
Notes on Contributors xi
1 Introduction: Changing Perspectives on Africa's Pasts
1(23)
Ann Brower Stahl
2 Barbarous Tribes and Unrewarding Gyrations? The Changing Role of Ethnographic Imagination in African Archaeology
24(31)
Paul J. Lane
3 Discord after Discard: Reconstructing Aspects of Oldowan Hominin Behavior
55(38)
Thomas Plummer
4 The Middle and Upper Pleistocene African Record for the Biological and Behavioral Origins of Modern Humans
93(37)
Curtis W. Marean and Zelalem Assefa
5 A Late Pleistocene Archive of Life at the Coast, Klasies River
130(20)
H.J. Deacon and Sarah Wurz
6 Modeling Later Stone Age Societies in Southern Africa
150(24)
Peter Mitchell
7 Holocene "Aquatic" Adaptations in North Tropical Africa
174(13)
Augustin F.C. Holl
8 Pastoralism and its Consequences
187(38)
Diane Gifford-Gonzalez
9 Holocene Occupations of the Forest and Savanna
225(24)
Joanna Casey
10 The Romance of Farming: Plant Cultivation and Domestication in Africa 249(27)
Katharina Neumann
11 Metallurgy and its Consequences 276(25)
S. Terry Childs and Eugenia W. Herbert
12 The Bantu Problem and African Archaeology 301(26)
Manfred K.H. Eggert
13 The Archaeology of Sub-Saharan Urbanism: Cities and their Countrysides 327(26)
Adria LaViolette and Jeffrey Fleisher
14 Interaction, Marginalization, and the Archaeology of the Kalahari 353(25)
Andrew Reid
15 Southern Africa and the East African Coast 378(14)
Gilbert Pwiti
16 Mosaics and Interactions: East Africa, 2000 b.p. to the Present 392(28)
Chapurukha M. Kusimba and Sibel B. Kusimba
17 From Pottery Groups to Ethnic Groups in Central Africa 420(21)
Pierre de Maret
18 Two Thousand Years of West African History 441(26)
Scott MacEachern
Index 467

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