Archaeology and Paleontology

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Archaeology and Paleontology 1126. Antonites, A.R. (2020). Cooking, serving, and storage: Ceramic vessel function and use contexts at Schroda. African Archaeological Review, 37, 251–270. Continuity and change in ceramic vessel use between Schroda’s Zhizo and Leokwe phase deposits are discussed. 1127. Atherton-Woolham, S., McKnight, L., Price, C., & Adams, J. (2019). Imaging the gods: Animal mummies from Tomb 3508, North Saqqara, Egypt. Antiquity, 93(367), 128–143. A centralized industry may have produced votive mummies for deposition at the Saqqara Necropolis. 1128. Bader, G.D., Linst€adter, J., & Schoeman, M.H. (2020). Uncovering the Late Pleistocene LSA of Mpumalanga Province, South Africa: Early results from Iron Pig Rock Shelter. Journal of African Archaeology, 18, 19–37. Iron Pig rock shelter contains late Pleistocene occupations associated with the Robberg techno-complex. 1129. Bushozi, P.M., Skinner, A., & de Luque, L. (2020). The Middle Stone Age (MSA) technological patterns, innovations, and behavioral changes at Bed VIA of Mumba Rockshelter, northern Tanzania. African Archaeological Review, 37, 293–310. We discuss new excavations at the Mumba site, occupied at different periods from the last Interglacial Maximum around 128,000 BP through the onset of Holocene ca. 12,000 BP. 1130. Forssman, T., Lotter, M., Parkington, J., Hollmann, J., & Fourie, W. (2020). An introduction to the Stone Age archaeology of the Polihali Dam Area, Mokhotlong District, Lesotho. Journal of African Archaeology, 18, 1–18. A Current Bibliography on African Affairs 2021, Vol. 53(4) 299–361 ! The Author(s) 2021 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/00113255211011815 journals.sagepub.com/home/cba We provide the background to one of southern Africa’s largest heritage mitigation projects ordered by dam construction. 1131. Garnett, A. (2019). Sudan and the Petrie Museum: Histories of display, scholarship and engagement. Archaeology International, 22, 66–71. Of the 80,600 objects in UCL’s Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology around 4000 are from Sudan. 1132. Hagos, T. (2019). Explorations of three rock art sites in northwestern Tigray, Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 15(2), 104–130. These rock art sites portray domestication scenes of cattle, sheep and goat of the two phases of Dahthami and Surre-Hanakiya of the Ethio-Arabian styles. 1133. Helm, C.W., Cawthra, H.C., Combrink, X., Helm, C.J.Z., . . ., van den Heever, A. (2020). Pleistocene large reptile tracks and probable swim traces on South Africa’s Cape south coast. South African Journal of Science, 116(3/4), #6542. Two Middle Stone Age stone artifacts were found embedded in one palaeosurface containing multiple reptile trackways. 1134. Huffman, T.N. & Woodborne, S. (2020). AMS dates and the chronology of Great Zimbabwe. Journal of African Archaeology, 18, 86–108. The Mutapa established a masungiro ritual center at Great Zimbabwe, perhaps to maintain territorial rights in the face of Torwa expansion. 1135. Low, M. & Pargeter, J. (2020). Regional variability in lithic miniaturization and the organization of technology in Late Glacial Southern Africa ( 18-11 kcal BP). Journal of African Archaeology, 18, 38–66. We see differences in the raw materials selected, the role played by bipolar reduction and the manner in which lithic reduction was organized. 1136. Lyaya, E.C., Chirikure, S., Janney, P.E., & Rehren, T. (2020). A technology of multiple smelting furnaces per termite mound: Iron production in Chongwe, Lusaka, Zambia. Journal of African Archaeology, 18, 67–85. The presence of three to four smelting furnaces per termite mound makes iron production in Chongwe a unique technology in the Corridor. 300 A Current Bibliography on African Affairs 53(4)