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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.

£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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£69.00
Author:
Joseph W. Michels
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841718828
Paperback:
273pp, Includes 55 tables, 59 figures, maps drawings plans and photographs. 6 Appendices of data
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 64
BAR number:
S1446
In this volume the author takes a regional perspective to examine Aksumite sites (the Horn of Africa) from 700 BC to 850 AD in their... More
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Traditions céramiques, Identités et Peuplement en Sénégambie
Ethnographie comparée et essai de reconstitution historique
£41.00
Author:
Moustapha Sall
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
French
ISBN:
9781841718507
Paperback:
166pp, Includes 82 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 14 tables
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 63
BAR number:
S1407
Sub Title:
Ethnographie comparée et essai de reconstitution historique
This study determines the possible connections between the various ceramic traditions of Senegal and Gambia, with special references to... More
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£46.00
Author:
Lucas Pieter Petit
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841718378
Paperback:
181pp, Includes 7 tables, 8 maps, 92 figures, plans, drawings and photographs, site Gazetteer
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 62
BAR number:
S1398
This work offers a comprehensive historical framework of north-western Benin, West Africa, based on intensive survey work and controlled... More
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£45.00
Author:
Randi Barndon
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716572
Paperback:
189pp, Includes 11 figures, maps and plans, 31 plates, 5 Appendices of glossaries, chronologies sites and other data
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 61
BAR number:
S1308
This work is a comparative study of iron smelting practices among the Pangwa and Fipa peoples of Tanzania. The author discusses local... More
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£43.00
Author:
Intisar Soghayroun Elzein
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716398
Paperback:
169pp, Includes 11 maps, 94 figures, plans, drawings, 15 black and white plates
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 60
BAR number:
S1289
The Middle Nile Basin, which is in effect the present Republic of the Sudan, from the 7th century CE accepted Islam through influences... More
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£22.00
Author:
Frederic Pearl
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716077
Paperback:
76pp, Includes 4 tables, 18 figures, plates, maps, drawings
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 59
BAR number:
S1247
Since 1996, the author has been involved with a cultural, archaeological, and geological survey of the Mukogodo Hills and Ewaso Ng'iro... More
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£94.00
Author:
Stéphane Pradines
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
French
ISBN:
9781841715766
Paperback:
378pp, Includes 288 figures, tables, maps, plans, photographs, drawings
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 58
BAR number:
S1216
The subject in this, Number 58 of the series of Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, is the range of fortifications on the East... More
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Le Capsien typique et le Capsien supérieur
Évolution ou contemporanéité. Les données technologiques
£81.00
Author:
Noura Rahmani Avec préface de Jacques Tixier
Publication Year:
2003
Language:
French with English abstract
ISBN:
9781841715537
Paperback:
321pp, Includes 243 figures, maps, plans, tables, drawings illustrations
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 57
BAR number:
S1187
Sub Title:
Évolution ou contemporanéité. Les données technologiques
Volume 57 in the Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology focuses on the problems of chronological interpretation of two “faciès” from... More
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£41.00
Author:
Anne Haour
Publication Year:
2003
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841715063
Paperback:
165pp, Includes 58 figures, maps, plans, drawings, photographs (including 5 in colour), 13 tables.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 56
BAR number:
S1133
Sub Title:
The site of Kufan Kanawa
The need for archaeological research in the Hausa area is very real. What work has been done is often casual and cursory. Considering... More
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£43.00
Author:
Akinwumi O. Ogundiran
Publication Year:
2002
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841714684
Paperback:
171pp, Includes 42 tables, 47 figures, maps, plans and drawings, 27 black and white plates, 16-page bibliography, Index
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 55
BAR number:
S1090
The focus of this study (number 55 in the Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology) is the impact of developments from the 13th-19th... More
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£47.00
Author:
Karega-Munene
Publication Year:
2002
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841714172
Paperback:
187pp, Includes numerous figures, maps and tables.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 54
BAR number:
S1037
The problem of subsistence has received little attention in East African archaeology. Various models of human subsistence strategies have... More
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£46.00
Author:
Andrew James McGregor
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712857
Paperback:
183pp, Includes 5 maps, 19 plates.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 53
BAR number:
S1006
Sub Title:
Problems in historical reconstruction
Volume 53 in the series of Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology focuses on the old sultanate of Darfur, in the westen part of... More
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The Middle and Later Stone Ages in the Mukogodo Hills of Central Kenya
A comparative analysis of lithic artefacts from Shurmai (GnJm1) and Kakwa Lelash (GnJm2) rockshelters
£29.00
Author:
G-Young Gang
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712512
Paperback:
109pp, Includes 34 figures, maps and illustrations, 34 tables
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 52
BAR number:
S964
Sub Title:
A comparative analysis of lithic artefacts from Shurmai (GnJm1) and Kakwa Lelash (GnJm2) rockshelters
This monograph (in the series Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology) compares lithic materials excavated from Shumai and Kakwa... More
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The Kintampo Complex
The Late Holocene on the Gambaga Escarpment, Northern Ghana
£45.00
Author:
Joanna Casey
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712024
Paperback:
176pp, Includes 80 figures, maps, plans, line drawings, 32 tables.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 51
BAR number:
S906
Sub Title:
The Late Holocene on the Gambaga Escarpment, Northern Ghana
The Kintampo Complex is the first settled, sub-Sahelian complex in West Africa, and central to our understanding of West African... More
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Ethno-Archaeology in Jenné, Mali
Craft and status among smiths, potters and masons
£40.00
Author:
Adria LaViolette
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841710433
Paperback:
156pp, Includes 41 plates with black and white photographs, maps
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 49
BAR number:
S838
Sub Title:
Craft and status among smiths, potters and masons
This is an ethnoarcaheological study exploring social and economic lives of specialized producers: blacksmiths, potters and masons,... More
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