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Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology)

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

Zooarchaeology in the Middle Nile Valley
A Study of four Neolithic Sites near Khartoum
£39.00
Author:
Ali Tigani ElMahi
Publication Year:
1988
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860545392
Paperback:
166pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 27
BAR number:
S418
Sub Title:
A Study of four Neolithic Sites near Khartoum
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£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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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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£39.00
Author:
Maria M. Van der Ryst
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548935
Paperback:
168pp, Includes 37 figures and 5 photographs
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 43
BAR number:
S715
The aim of this book is firstly to establish chronology of Later Stone Age settlement in Waterber plateau and secondly to investigate the particular... More
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The Royal Crowns of Kush
A study in Middle Nile Valley regalia and iconography in the 1st millennia B.C. and A.D.
£39.00
Author:
Lázló Török
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544326
Paperback:
162pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p80-85. With additional material online (foldout of Chart 1).
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 18
BAR number:
S338
Sub Title:
A study in Middle Nile Valley regalia and iconography in the 1st millennia B.C. and A.D.
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The Predynastic Lithic Industries of Upper Egypt, Parts i and ii
A comparative study of the lithic traditions of Badari, Nagada and Hierakonpolis
£92.00
Author:
Diane L. Holmes
Publication Year:
1989
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860546016
Paperback:
518 pages. Two volume set.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge monographs in African archaeology, 33
BAR number:
S469
Sub Title:
A comparative study of the lithic traditions of Badari, Nagada and Hierakonpolis
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The Niger Delta
Aspects of its Prehistoric Economy and Culture
£66.00
Author:
Nwanna Nzewunwa
Publication Year:
1980
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860540830
Paperback:
286pp, Includes 61 figures.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 1
BAR number:
S75
Sub Title:
Aspects of its Prehistoric Economy and Culture
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£58.00
Author:
Abbas S. Mohammed-Ali
Publication Year:
1982
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860541707
Paperback:
254pp. Includes 40 figures.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge monographs in African archaeology, 6
BAR number:
S139
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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 Lower Palaeolithic of the Maghreb
Excavations and analyses at Ain Hanech, Algeria
£41.00
Author:
Mohamed Sahnouni
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548751
Paperback:
180pp, Includes numerous line drawings, three photographs.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 42
BAR number:
S689
Sub Title:
Excavations and analyses at Ain Hanech, Algeria
The excavations at Ain Hanech in Algeria, one of the oldest archaeological sites in North Africa. Includes a report on North African Lower Palaeolithic,... More
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£66.00
Author:
H. Opperman
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544371
Paperback:
290pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 19
BAR number:
S339
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£92.00
Author:
Janette Deacon
Publication Year:
1984
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542766
Paperback:
464pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p.412-441
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 12
BAR number:
S213
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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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£64.00
Author:
Natalie Tobert with ilustrations by Graham S. Reed
Publication Year:
1988
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860545743
Paperback:
280pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 30
BAR number:
S445
Sub Title:
Settlement and Transcience
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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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£60.00
Author:
Tertia Barnett
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549710
Paperback:
237pp, Includes numerous drawings, maps and tables.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 45
BAR number:
S763
This book, based on reviews of existing evidence and on original ethnographic and archaeological data, addresses the issue of when, how... More
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£35.00
Author:
J. M. Feely
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544869
Paperback:
146pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 24
BAR number:
S378
Sub Title:
Before A.D. 1870
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£55.00
Author:
Frank Winchell
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310671
Paperback:
247pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 83
BAR number:
S2459
This study for the first time provides an in-depth examination of the Butana Group ceramics that in turn represent a large sedentary... More
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£47.00
Editors:
Antonieta Jerardino, Antonia Malan and David Braun
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311449
Paperback:
179pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 84
BAR number:
S2526
This work presents contributions from South African, European, and North American authors working in academic and governmental institutions. Chapters... More
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The Archaeology of the Meroitic State
New perspectives on its social and political organisation
£38.00
Author:
David N. Edwards
Publication Year:
1996
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548256
Paperback:
146pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 38
BAR number:
S640
Sub Title:
New perspectives on its social and political organisation
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£95.00
Author:
Edward John David Pollard
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303536
Paperback:
391pp, Includes 147 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 30 figures, 5 data Appendices Gazetteer
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 76
BAR number:
S1873
Sub Title:
The Middle Iron Age of the Region
This study seeks insights into the peoples and traditions of the Tanzanian coast, East Africa, during the 6th to 15th century through the application of... More
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£74.00
Author:
Ibrahim Musa Mohammed
Publication Year:
1986
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543671
Paperback:
330 pages
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 14
BAR number:
S285
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The Ancient Red Sea Port of Adulis and the Eritrean Coastal Region
Previous investigations and museum collections
£33.00
Author:
Chiara Zazzaro
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311906
Paperback:
121pp, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 85
BAR number:
S2569
Sub Title:
Previous investigations and museum collections
The book unveils documents and museum collections related to research and excavations conducted on the Red Sea coast and at Adulis in the 19th and 20th... More
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Swahili Urbanisation, Trade and Food Production
Botanical perspectives from Pemba Island, Tanzania, AD 600-1500
£47.00
Author:
Sarah Walshaw
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407314167
Paperback:
138pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 90
BAR number:
S2755
Sub Title:
Botanical perspectives from Pemba Island, Tanzania, AD 600-1500
This monograph examines Swahili plant subsistence and food production patterns through the analysis of macrobotanical remains from four... More
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State Formation in Egypt
Chronology and society
£45.00
Author:
Toby A. H. Wilkinson
Publication Year:
1996
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548386
Paperback:
190pp, Includes 18 black and white figures
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 40
BAR number:
S651
Sub Title:
Chronology and society
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£39.00
Author:
Judith Sealy
Publication Year:
1986
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543763
Paperback:
162pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 15
BAR number:
S293
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£61.00
Author:
Pamela R. Willoughby
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544104
Paperback:
266pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 17
BAR number:
S321
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£60.00
Author:
Randi Haaland
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544531
Paperback:
264pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 20
BAR number:
S350
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£59.00
Author:
Étienne Zangato
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
French
ISBN:
9780860549802
Paperback:
231pp, Includes 126 figures with 24 black and white photos
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 46
BAR number:
S768
The north-east of the Central African Republic and the east of Cameroon were the only geographical zones in central Africa to have... More
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Shellfish in Prehistoric Diet
Elands Bay, S.W. Cape Coast, South Africa
£62.00
Author:
W. F. Buchanan
Publication Year:
1988
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860545842
Paperback:
274pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 31
BAR number:
S455
Sub Title:
Elands Bay, S.W. Cape Coast, South Africa
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£48.00
Author:
Martin Hall
Publication Year:
1981
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860541431
Paperback:
204pp, Includes 46 figures.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 5
BAR number:
S119
Sub Title:
An Ecological Interpretation
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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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Recherches archéologiques sur la capitale de l’empire de Ghana
Etude d’un secteur d’habitat à Koumbi Saleh, Mauritanie. Campagnes II-III-IV-V (1975-1976)-(1980-1981)
£37.00
Author:
Sophie Berthier
Publication Year:
1997
Language:
French
ISBN:
9780860548683
Paperback:
156pp, Includes 34 plates of maps and drawings, 64 photographs and one plate in colour
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 41
BAR number:
S680
Sub Title:
Etude d’un secteur d’habitat à Koumbi Saleh, Mauritanie. Campagnes II-III-IV-V (1975-1976)-(1980-1981)
Detailed analysis of excavations undertaken at Koumbi Saleh in today’s Mauretania. With stunning results, the author argues that the architectural remains,... More
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£92.00
Author:
Kolawole David Aiyedun & Thurstan Shaw
Publication Year:
1989
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860546849
Paperback:
452pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 37
BAR number:
S541
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Prehistoric Investigations in the Region of Jenne, Mali, Parts i and ii
A Study in the Development of Urbanism in the Sahel. Part i: Archaeological and Historical Background and the Excavations at Jenne-jeno, Part ii: The Regional Survey and Conclusions
£97.00
Author:
Susan Keech McIntosh and Roderick J. McIntosh
Publication Year:
1980
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860541035
Paperback:
560 pages. Two volume set. Includes 14 illustrations, 28 figures.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge monographs in African archaeology, 2
BAR number:
S89
Sub Title:
A Study in the Development of Urbanism in the Sahel. Part i: Archaeological and Historical Background and the Excavations at Jenne-jeno, Part ii: The Regional Survey and Conclusions
This two-part monograph offers a report and interpretation of data collected during an exploratory excavation and regional survey in the Inland Niger Delta... More
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£58.00
Editors:
John Bower and David Lubell
Publication Year:
1988
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860545200
Paperback:
252pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 26
BAR number:
S405
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£49.00
Author:
Freda Nkirote M'Mbogori
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407313702
Paperback:
154pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 89
BAR number:
S2717
This research is a departure from the traditional archaeological pottery analysis in Kenya, where emphasis has been on decorations and... More
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Plant Domestication in the Middle Nile Basin
An Archaeoethnobotanical Case Study
£77.00
Author:
Anwar Abdel-Magid
Publication Year:
1989
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860546641
Paperback:
374pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 35
BAR number:
S523
Sub Title:
An Archaeoethnobotanical Case Study
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£31.00
Author:
Alemseged Beldados
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407313573
Paperback:
102pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 88
BAR number:
S2706
Archaeobotanical investigation was conducted on a total of thirty two thousand (n=32,000) pot fragments, baked clay and fired clay... More
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Off-Site Archaeology and Human Adaptation in Eastern Africa
An Analysis of Regional Artefact Density in the Amboseli, Southern Kenya
£62.00
Author:
Robert Foley
Publication Year:
1981
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860541141
Paperback:
274pp, Includes 48 figures.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 3
BAR number:
S97
Sub Title:
An Analysis of Regional Artefact Density in the Amboseli, Southern Kenya
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Metals from K2 and Mapungubwe, Middle Limpopo Valley
A technological study of early second millennium material culture, with an emphasis on conservation
£49.00
Author:
Farahnaz Koleini
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312958
Paperback:
199pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 86
BAR number:
S2653
Sub Title:
A technological study of early second millennium material culture, with an emphasis on conservation
The book focuses on the conservation of iron and copper objects that mostly belong to the Iron Age sites of K2 and Mapungubwe (AD 825-1290), the two most... More
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Métallurgie du fer et Sociétés africaines
Bilans et nouveaux paradigmes dans la recherche anthropologique et archéologique
£66.00
Editors:
Caroline Robion-Brunner and Bruno Martinelli
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English and French
ISBN:
9781407309880
Paperback:
258pp, Illustrated throughout.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 81
BAR number:
S2395
Sub Title:
Bilans et nouveaux paradigmes dans la recherche anthropologique et archéologique
This book includes papers presented at a conference at Aix-en-Provence, 23-24 April 2010. More
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Meroitic Settlement in the Central Sudan
An Analysis of Sites in the Nile Valley and the Western Butana
£72.00
Author:
Khidir Abdelkarim Ahmed
Publication Year:
1984
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542520
Paperback:
320pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p289-308
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 8
BAR number:
S197
Sub Title:
An Analysis of Sites in the Nile Valley and the Western Butana
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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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£40.00
Author:
Per Ditlef Fredriksen
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309798
Paperback:
147pp, Includes 35 figures, 5 tables
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 80
BAR number:
S2387
The two key themes in this work are 1) the meeting between knowledges about the material world, and 2) the intimate relationships between... 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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£45.00
Author:
Anthony Manhire
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544548
Paperback:
198pp, Includes illustrations in black and white, maps.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 21
BAR number:
S351
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£62.00
Author:
Lyn Wadley
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544920
Paperback:
274pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 25
BAR number:
S380
Sub Title:
Social and ecological interpretation
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