Archaeological Investigations Of Iron Age Sites In The Mema Region Mali West Africa
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Archaeological Investigations Of Iron Age Sites In The Mema Region Mali West Africa
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Author : Téréba Togola
language : en
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Release Date : 2008
Archaeological Investigations Of Iron Age Sites In The Mema Region Mali West Africa written by Téréba Togola and has been published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 73 Series Editors: John Alexander, Laurence Smith and Timothy Insoll
Ancient African Metallurgy
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Author : Michael S. Bisson
language : en
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Release Date : 2000-08-16
Ancient African Metallurgy written by Michael S. Bisson and has been published by AltaMira Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-16 with Social Science categories.
Gold. Copper. Iron. Metal working in Africa has been the subject of both public lore and extensive archaeological investigation. Here, four of the leading contemporary researchers on this topic attempt to provide a complete synthesis of current debates and understandings: Where, how, and when was metal first introduced to the continent? How were iron and copper tools, implements, and objects used in everyday life, in trade, in political and cultural contexts? What role did metal objects play in the ideological systems of precolonial African peoples? Substantive chapters address the origins of metal working and the technology and the various uses and meanings of copper and iron. An ethnoarchaeological account in the words of a contemporary iron worker enriches the archaeological explanations. This book provides a comprehensive, timely summary of our current knowledge.
Atlas Of Mammal Distribution Through Africa From The Lgm 18 Ka To Modern Times
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Author : Hélène Jousse
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2017-02-28
Atlas Of Mammal Distribution Through Africa From The Lgm 18 Ka To Modern Times written by Hélène Jousse and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-28 with Social Science categories.
This work provides the first overview of mammal species distributions in Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, 18 ky) to modern time
Facing The Sea Of Sand
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Author : Barry Cunliffe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-04-25
Facing The Sea Of Sand written by Barry Cunliffe and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-25 with History categories.
Northern Africa is dominated by the Sahara Desert, stretching across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. This book is about the people who lived around the edges of the Desert and the different ways in which they responded to its challenges, establishing networks of communication across its expanse. But the Sahara has not always been a desert. From about 9000 BC the region began to enjoy a warm, humid period allowing vegetation to flourish and wild animals to move in. Humans soon followed practising pastoral economies but with the onset of harsher conditions once more around 3000 BC the desert reclaimed its own. Since then fluctuations in climate have continued to affect the lives of people living around the desert fringes. The communities occupying the North African Coast and in the Nile Valley have come under the influence of the states dominating the Near East and the Mediterranean but those living in in the Sahel to the south of the desert have developed their own distinctive cultures. The book tells the story of the growing links between the two worlds, showing that Africa played a crucial part in the development of the Old World before it was drawn into the story of the New World.
African Dominion
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Author : Michael Gomez
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-27
African Dominion written by Michael Gomez and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-27 with History categories.
In a radically new account of the importance of early Africa in global history, Gomez traces how Islam's growth in West Africa, along with intensifying commerce that included slaves, resulted in a series of political experiments unique to the region, culminating in the rise of empire.
The Epic Of Sumanguru Kante
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Author : Stephen Bulman
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-08-28
The Epic Of Sumanguru Kante written by Stephen Bulman and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-28 with History categories.
The Epic of Sumanguru Kante contains the Bamana text and English translation of griot Abdoulaye Sako’s oral narrative about Sumanguru, recorded in Koulikoro (Mali), together with explanatory notes, a scholarly introduction, and sections on the Bamana language and musical accompaniment.
Divine Consumption
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Author : Stephen A. Dueppen
language : en
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Release Date : 2022-12-31
Divine Consumption written by Stephen A. Dueppen and has been published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-31 with History categories.
Kirikongo is an archaeological site composed of thirteen remarkably well-preserved discrete mounds occupied continually from the early first to the mid second millennium AD. It spans a dynamic era that saw the growth of large settlement communities and regional socio-political formations, development of economic specializations, intensification in interregional commercial networks, and the effects of the Black Death pandemic. The extraordinary preservation of architectural units, activity areas and industrial zones provides a unique opportunity to discern the cultural practices that created stratified mounds (tells) in this part of West Africa. Building from a new detailed zooarchaeological analysis and refinements in stratigraphic precision, this book argues that repeated ritual activity was a significant factor in the accumulation of stratified archaeological deposits. The book details consistencies in form and content of discrete loci containing animal bones, food remains, and broken and unbroken objects and suggests that these are the remnants of sequential ancestor shrines created when domestic spaces were converted to tombs or dedicated mortuary monuments were constructed. Continuities and transformations in ancestral rituals at Kirikongo inform on earlier West African ritual practices from the second millennium BC as well as political and social transformations at the site. More broadly, this case study provides new insights on anthropogenic mound (tell) formation processes, social zooarchaeology, material culture theory, historical ontology, and the analysis of ritual and religion in the archaeological record.
African Civilizations
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Author : Graham Connah
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016
African Civilizations written by Graham Connah and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
This new revised edition offers expanded coverage, new illustrations and an extended new list of references.
Caravans Of Gold Fragments In Time
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Author : Kathleen Bickford Berzock
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-02-26
Caravans Of Gold Fragments In Time written by Kathleen Bickford Berzock and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-26 with Art categories.
Issued in conjunction with the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, held January 26, 2019-July 21, 2019, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Engaging With A Legacy Nehemia Levtzion 1935 2003
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Author : E. Ann McDougall
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-11
Engaging With A Legacy Nehemia Levtzion 1935 2003 written by E. Ann McDougall and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-11 with History categories.
Engaging with a Legacy shows how Nehemia Levtzion shaped our understanding of Islam in Africa and influenced successive scholarly generations in their approach to Islamization, conversion and fundamentalism. The book illuminates his work, career and family life – including his own ‘life vision’ on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It speaks to his relationship with researchers at home and abroad as mentor, colleague and provocateur; in one section, several authors reflect on those dynamics in terms of personal and professional development. Levtzion’s contemporaries also speak of interactions with him (and his life-long companion, wife Tirza) in the 1950s and 1960s; we see in these writings the birth of West African historical studies. Levtzion’s arrival as Israeli graduate-student in Nkrumah’s Egyptian-leaning Ghana, and the debate over what ‘African Studies’ should mean in an environment that included the personal intervention of W.E.B. Du Bois, are stories told for the first time. Most poignant is the account of Levtzion’s commitment to building African Studies, complete with emphasis on Islam, in the heart of the Jewish state at The Hebrew University. His never-ending defence of the program reflected his determination to be both ‘engaged historian’ and ‘engaged Israeli’ – a legacy he chose for himself. Finally, an ‘Epilogue’ to the original publication shows how one aspect this legacy, Levtzion’s growing preoccupation with the ‘public sphere in Muslim societies’, has become even more relevant in ‘post-Arab Spring’ Africa and the Middle East. This book was published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies.