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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

£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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Butua and the End of an Era
The effect of the collapse of the Kalanga state on ordinary citizens. An analysis of behaviour under stress
£98.00
Author:
Catharina van Waarden
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310190
Paperback:
393pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 82
BAR number:
S2420
Sub Title:
The effect of the collapse of the Kalanga state on ordinary citizens. An analysis of behaviour under stress
The Kalanga state Butua, which had dominated the Zimbabwe plateau (south central Africa) for four centuries, collapsed in the 1830s due... More
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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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£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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Archaeology and History in Southern Nigeria, Parts i and ii
The ancient linear earthworks of Benin and Ishan. Part i: Fieldwork and background information, Part ii: Ceramic and other specialist studies
£95.00
Author:
P. J. Darling
Publication Year:
1984
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542759
Paperback:
556 pages. Two volume set. Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 11
BAR number:
S215
Sub Title:
The ancient linear earthworks of Benin and Ishan. Part i: Fieldwork and background information, Part ii: Ceramic and other specialist studies
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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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£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 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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£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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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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L'art rupestre du Fezzan septentrional (Libye)
Widyan Zreda et Tarut (Wadi esh-Shati)
£86.00
Author:
Jean-Loïc Le Quellec
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
French
ISBN:
9780860544739
Paperback:
418pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 22
BAR number:
S365
Sub Title:
Widyan Zreda et Tarut (Wadi esh-Shati)
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El Geili
The History of a Middle Nile Environment, 7000 B.C.-A.D. 1500
£86.00
Editors:
I. Caneva with contributions by Patrizia Baracchini, Alfredo Coppa, Vincenzo Francaviglia, Ezio Fulcheri, Achilles Gautier, Alessandro Lentini, Bruno Marcolongo, Alberto M. Palmieri, Maria Reddavid and Guiseppe Scala
Publication Year:
1988
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860545484
Paperback:
414pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 29
BAR number:
S424
Sub Title:
The History of a Middle Nile Environment, 7000 B.C.-A.D. 1500
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£82.00
Author:
Daniel Rhodes
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306360
Paperback:
323pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 79
BAR number:
S2075
Sub Title:
A comparative study
By conducting a study of archaeology and the built environment within an East African context, this monograph aims to actively promote... 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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Frontiers
Southern African Archaeology Today
£81.00
Editors:
M. Hall, G. Avery, D. M. Avery, M. L. Wilson and A. J. B. Humphreys
Publication Year:
1984
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542681
Paperback:
394pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliographies
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 10
BAR number:
S207
Sub Title:
Southern African Archaeology Today
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£77.00
Author:
John Webster Barthelme
Publication Year:
1985
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543251
Paperback:
370pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p353-364
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 13
BAR number:
S254
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£77.00
Author:
Alfred Muzzolini
Publication Year:
1986
Language:
French
ISBN:
9780860544067
Paperback:
372pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p335-345. Index.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 16
BAR number:
S318
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Archaeology and Environment in the Libyan Sahara
The excavations in the Tadrart Acacus, 1978- 1983
£77.00
Editors:
Barbara E. Barich with contributions by Massimo Baistrocchi, Giorgio Belluomini, Isabella Caneva, Angela E. Close, Achilles Gautier, Luigia Manfra, Bruno Marcolongo, Alberto M. Palmieri, Erhard Schulz and Sandra Y. Vons-Comis
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544746
Paperback:
356pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p341-347. With additional material online (foldouts of maps and diagrams).
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 23
BAR number:
S368
Sub Title:
The excavations in the Tadrart Acacus, 1978- 1983
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Houlouf 1
Archéologie des sociétés protohistoriques du Nord-Cameroun
£77.00
Author:
Augustin Holl
Publication Year:
1988
Language:
French
ISBN:
9780860545866
Paperback:
356pp. With additional material online (foldout of figure 40).
Sub-series name:
Cambridge monographs in African archaeology, 32
BAR number:
S456
Sub Title:
Archéologie des sociétés protohistoriques du Nord-Cameroun
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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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£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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History and Ethnoarchaeology in Eastern Nigeria
A Study of Igbo-Igala relations with special reference to the Anambra Valley
£72.00
Author:
Philip Adigwe Oguagha and Alex Ikechukwu Okpoko
Publication Year:
1984
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542490
Paperback:
320pp, Includes figures.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 7
BAR number:
S195
Sub Title:
A Study of Igbo-Igala relations with special reference to the Anambra Valley
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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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£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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£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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£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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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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£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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£66.00
Author:
Kathlyn Moore Stewart
Publication Year:
1989
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860546627
Paperback:
292pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 34
BAR number:
S521
Sub Title:
Environmental Change and Human Adaptation
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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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£64.00
Author:
Charles Cable
Publication Year:
1984
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542582
Paperback:
282pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p253-267
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 9
BAR number:
S201
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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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£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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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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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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£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:
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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£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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£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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£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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£58.00
Author:
David N. Edwards
Publication Year:
1989
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860546825
Paperback:
252pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 36
BAR number:
S537
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£56.00
Author:
Yousif Mukhtar el Amin
Publication Year:
1981
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860541349
Paperback:
248pp, Includes 69 figures.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 4
BAR number:
S114
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£56.00
Author:
Chantal Radimilahy
Publication Year:
1988
Language:
French
ISBN:
9780860545446
Paperback:
246pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 28
BAR number:
S422
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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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An Archaeological and Geomorphological Survey of the Luangwa Valley, Zambia
An Archaeological and Geomorphological Survey of the Luangwa Valley, Zambia
£53.00
Author:
Dan Colton
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305974
Paperback:
210pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings, figures, tables and photographs
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 78
BAR number:
S2022
Sub Title:
An Archaeological and Geomorphological Survey of the Luangwa Valley, Zambia
The primary aim of this study of The Luangwa Valley (eastern Zambia), is to assess the integrity of the archaeological record in... 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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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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