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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

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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£43.00
Author:
Andrea Manzo
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
French
ISBN:
9781841710020
Paperback:
168pp, Includes 61 figures
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 48
BAR number:
S782
Sub Title:
Une synthèsepréliminaire
The study of social and cultural changes which occurred in the period between 3000 and 1000 BC in the areas bordering the Nile and the... More
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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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£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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£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 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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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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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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Islam, Archaeology and History
Gao Region (Mali) ca. AD 900 - 1250
£37.00
Author:
Timothy Insoll
Publication Year:
1996
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548324
Paperback:
152 pages
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 39
BAR number:
S647
Sub Title:
Gao Region (Mali) ca. AD 900 - 1250
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