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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

£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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£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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£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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£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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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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£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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£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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Holocene Prehistory of the Southern Cape, South Africa
Excavations at Blombos Cave and the Blombosfontein Nature Reserve
£46.00
Author:
Christopher Stuart Henshilwood
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303437
Paperback:
182pp, Includes 121 figures, maps, plans, tables, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 75
BAR number:
S1860
Sub Title:
Excavations at Blombos Cave and the Blombosfontein Nature Reserve
During 1992/3 nine Later Stone Age (LSA) coastal midden sites ranging in age from 6960 BP to 290 BP, and representing 28 depositional... 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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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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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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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£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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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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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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£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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£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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£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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£39.00
Editors:
Timothy Insoll
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303345
Paperback:
153pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 74
BAR number:
S1847
This work presents and evaluates internal perspectives on the profile of archaeology in the University of Ghana, Legon, internationally,... More
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£39.00
Author:
Augustin F. C. Holl
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407313023
Paperback:
212pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 87
BAR number:
S2660
Archaeology of Mounds clusters in West Africa aims to understand the dynamics that enhanced and sustained the settlement systems made of distinct but close... More
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