Early Pastoralists Of South Western Kenya
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Early Pastoralists Of South Western Kenya
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Author : Peter Robertshaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Early Pastoralists Of South Western Kenya written by Peter Robertshaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Art categories.
Results of archaeological surveys and excavations, and effective interdisciplinary research of the Loita-Mara region of south-western Kenya. The main focus is on Neolithic sites and prehistoric pastoral subsistence and settlement systems. Includes contributions of many authors.
Pastoralism In Africa
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Author : Michael Bollig
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2013-07-01
Pastoralism In Africa written by Michael Bollig and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-01 with Social Science categories.
Pastoralism has shaped livelihoods and landscapes on the African continent for millennia. Mobile livestock husbandry has generally been portrayed as an economic strategy that successfully met the challenges of low biomass productivity and environmental variability in arid and semi-arid environments. This volume focuses on the emergence, diversity, and inherent dynamics of pastoralism in Africa based on research during a twelve-year period on the southwest and northeast regions. Unraveling the complex prehistory, history, and contemporary political ecology of African pastoralism, results in insight into the ingenuity and flexibility of historical and contemporary herders.
The Emergence Of Agriculture
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Author : Peter White
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-10-25
The Emergence Of Agriculture written by Peter White and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-25 with Social Science categories.
This volume, the first in the One World Archaeology series, is a compendium of key papers by leaders in the field of the emergence of agriculture in different parts of the world. Each is supplemented by a review of developments in the field since its publication. Contributions cover the better known regions of early and independent agricultural development, such as Southwest Asia and the Americas, as well as lesser known locales, such as Africa and New Guinea. Other contributions examine the dispersal of agricultural practices into a region, such as India and Japan, and how introduced crops became incorporated into pre-existing forms of food production. This reader is intended for students of the archaeology of agriculture, and will also prove a valuable and handy resource for scholars and researchers in the area.
The Origins And Development Of African Livestock
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Author : Roger Blench
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-01-27
The Origins And Development Of African Livestock written by Roger Blench and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-27 with Social Science categories.
This book presents an interdisciplinary overview of the origins of African livestock, placing Africa as one of the world centres for animal domestication. With sections on archaeology, genetics, linguistics and ethnography, this collection contains over twenty contributions from the field's foremost experts and provides fully illustrated, never before published data, and extensive bibliographies.
The Oxford Handbook Of African Archaeology
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Author : Peter Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-07-04
The Oxford Handbook Of African Archaeology written by Peter Mitchell and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-04 with Social Science categories.
Africa has the longest and arguably the most diverse archaeological record of any of the continents. It is where the human lineage first evolved and from where Homo sapiens spread across the rest of the world. Later, it witnessed novel experiments in food-production and unique trajectories to urbanism and the organisation of large communities that were not always structured along strictly hierarchical lines. Millennia of engagement with societies in other parts of the world confirm Africa's active participation in the construction of the modern world, while the richness of its history, ethnography, and linguistics provide unusually powerful opportunities for constructing interdisciplinary narratives of Africa's past. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date 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. As well as covering almost all periods and regions of the continent, it includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates, and situates the subject's contemporary practice within the discipline's history and the infrastructural challenges now facing its practitioners. Bringing together essays on all these themes from over seventy contributors, many of them living and working in Africa, it offers a highly accessible, contemporary account of the subject for use by scholars and students of not only archaeology, but also history, anthropology, and other disciplines.
People And Animals In Holocene Africa
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Author : International Council for Archaeozoology. Conference
language : en
Publisher: Africa Magna Verlag
Release Date : 2011
People And Animals In Holocene Africa written by International Council for Archaeozoology. Conference and has been published by Africa Magna Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
"This publication is one of the volumes of the proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the International Council for Archaeozoology (CAZ), which was held in Paris (France) 23rd-28th August 2010"--P. 7.
Isotopic Investigations Of Pastoralism In Prehistory
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Author : Alicia R. Ventresca Miller
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-18
Isotopic Investigations Of Pastoralism In Prehistory written by Alicia R. Ventresca Miller and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-18 with Social Science categories.
Pastoralists were a vital economic and social force in ancient societies around the globe, transforming landscapes poorly suited for agriculture into spaces of vast productive potential while simultaneously connecting mobile and sedentary communities alike across considerable distances. Drawing from the rich archaeological records of Asia, Africa, and Europe, Isotopic Investigations of Pastoralism in Prehistory brings together the latest studies employing heavy and light stable isotopic analyses of humans and animals to investigate pastoralist diets, movement, and animal management strategies. The contributions presented in this volume highlight new methodological developments while simultaneously drawing attention to the diverse environmental factors that contribute to isotopic variation in human, plant, and animal tissues. Particular attention is paid to how pastoralist decisions regarding animal pasturing and mobility can be teased out of complex isotopic datasets, and also to the challenges in extracting information on the scales of human mobility in pastoralist landscapes. This volume will appeal to scholars in archaeology, anthropology, and ecology, as well as those with interests in animal management.
Polities And Power
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Author : Steven E. Falconer
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2022-09-13
Polities And Power written by Steven E. Falconer and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-13 with Social Science categories.
This distinctive book is the first to address the topic of landscape archaeology in early states from a truly global perspective. It provides an excellent introduction to—and overview of—the discipline today. The volume grew out of the Fifth Biennial Meeting of the Complex Societies Group, whose theme, States and the Landscape, paid tribute to the work of Robert McC. Adams. When Adams began publishing in the 1960s, the interdependence of cities and their countrysides, and the information revealed through the spatial patterning of communities, went largely unrecognized. Today, as this useful collection makes clear, these interpretive insights are fundamental to all archaeologists who investigate the roles of complex polities in their landscapes. Polities and Power features detailed studies from an intentionally disparate array of regions, including Mesoamerica, Andean South America, southwestern Asia, East Africa, and the Indian subcontinent. Each chapter or pair of chapters is followed by a critical commentary. In concert, these studies strive to infer social, political, and economic meaning from archaeologically discerned landscapes associated with societies that incorporate some expression of state authority. The contributions engage a variety of themes, including the significance of landscapes as they condition and reflect complex polities; the interplay of natural and cultural elements in defining landscapes of state; archaeological landscapes as ever-dynamic entities; and archaeological landscapes as recursive structures, reflected in palimpsests of human activity. Individually, many of these contributions are provocative, even controversial. Taken together, they reveal the contours of landscape archaeology at this particular evolutionary moment.
Obsidian And Ancient Manufactured Glasses
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Author : Ioannis Liritzis
language : en
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Release Date : 2012
Obsidian And Ancient Manufactured Glasses written by Ioannis Liritzis and has been published by University of New Mexico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Glassware, Ancient categories.
This edited volume offers archaeologists and archaeometrists the latest technical information, the fundamentals of provenance studies, instrumentation used in these investigations, and strategies for the dating and interpretation of archaeological materials in glass studies. The contributors discuss recent advances in obsidian hydration dating, secondary ion mass spectrometry, and infrared photoacoustic spectroscopy, focusing on the application of these technologies to a variety of glass forms and incorporating studies that look at the social and economic strategies of past cultures. With examples from Greece, the Middle East, Italy, Peru, Bolivia, Russia, Africa, and the Pacific region, provenance studies look at regional patterns of glass acquisition, production, and exchange, providing examples that use one or more instrumental methods to characterize materials from ancient societies. Extensive figures and tables included.
Sustainable Lifeways
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Author : Naomi F. Miller
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2012-02-24
Sustainable Lifeways written by Naomi F. Miller and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-24 with Social Science categories.
Sustainable Lifeways addresses forces of conservatism and innovation in societies dependent on the exploitation of aquatic and other wild resources, agriculture, and specialized pastoralism. The volume gathers specialists working in four areas of the world with significant archaeological and paleoenvironmental databases: West Asia, the American Southwest, East Africa, and Andean South America, and contributing to research in three broad time scales: long term (spanning millennia), medium term (archaeological time, spanning centuries or a few thousand years), and recent (ethnohistoric or ethnographic, spanning years or decades). By bringing an archaeological eye to an examination of human response to unpredictable environmental conditions, informed by an understanding of contemporary traditional peoples, the contributors to this volume develop a more detailed picture of how societies perceive environmental risk, how they alter their behavior in the face of changing conditions, and under what challenges the most rapid and far-reaching changes in adaptation have taken place. Sustainable Lifeways enhances our understanding of both the forces of conservatism and innovation which may have been in play in major transitions in the past, such as the development of complex society, and the expansions of early empires. Studies present examples of cattle herders in East Africa, hunter-gatherers and pastoralists in the Levant, South American fisher/farmers, and farmer/hunters of the U.S. Southwest.