The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology

Oxford University Press

2013

1080 p.

Oxford Handbooks

978-0199569885

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1. Introducing African archaeology; PART II: DOING AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY: THEORY, METHOD, PRACTICE; 2. Archaeological practice in Africa: a historical perspective; 3. Oral history, oral traditions, and archaeology: the application of structural analyses; 4. Language, linguistics, and archaeology: their integration in the study of African prehistory; 5. Genetics and archaeology; 6. Archaeology and migration in Africa; 7. Ethnoarchaeological research in Africa; 8. Studying African stone tools; 9. A century of ceramic studies in Africa10. The archaeology of African metalworking; 11. Rock art research in Africa; 12. The archaeology of ritual and religions in Africa; 13. Material culture, space, and identity; 14. Landscape archaeology; 15. Maritime archaeology in Africa; 16. Managing Africa's archaeological heritage; 17. Museums and public archaeology in Africa; 18. Archaeology and education; 19. Politics, ideology, and indigenous perspectives; PART III: BECOMING HUMAN; 20. Hominin evolution as the context for African prehistory; 21. The Oldowan: early hominins and the beginning of human culture22. The African Acheulean: an archaeological summary; 23. Genetic and fossil evidence for modern human origins; 24. Beyond modernity; PART IV: HUNTERS, GATHERERS, AND INTENSIFIERS: THE DIVERSITY OF AFRICAN FORAGERS; 25. Theoretical frameworks for understanding African hunter-gatherers; 26. Hunter-gatherers in southern Africa before 20,000 years ago; 27. The Middle Stone Age of eastern Africa; 28. Hunting and gathering in Africa's tropical forests at the end of the Pleistocene and in the early Holocene; 29. Hunter-gatherers of the Nile Valley and the Sahara before 12,000 years ago30. Hunter-gatherers of the Maghreb 25,000-6,000 years ago; 31. Hunter-gatherer-fishers of the Sahara and the Sahel 12,000-4,000 years ago; 32. Hunter-gatherer-fishers of eastern and south-central Africa since 20,000 years ago; 33. Southern African hunter-gatherers of the last 25,000 years; PART V: FOOD FOR THOUGHT: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF AFRICAN PASTORALIST AND FARMING COMMUNITIES; 34. Domesticating animals in Africa; 35. Domesticating plants in Africa; 36. The emergence and spread of herding in Northern Africa: a critical reappraisal37. Early farming societies along the Nile; 38. Pathways to food production in the Sahel; 39. Archaeological evidence for the emergence of food production in the Horn of Africa; 40. The archaeology of pastoralism and stock-keeping in East Africa; 41. The Stone to Metal Age in West Africa; 42. The appearance and development of metallurgy south of the Sahara; 43. Archaeologies of the Bantu expansion; 44. The archaeology of herding in southernmost Africa; 45. Early Farming Communities of southern and south-central Africa.

This handbook provides a comprehensive synthesis of African archaeology, covering the entirety of the continent's past from the beginnings of human evolution to the archaeological legacy of European colonialism. It includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates and situates the subject's contemporary practice.

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