{"title":"The development of crop production in the northern Horn of Africa: a review of the archaeobotanical evidence","authors":"Abel Ruiz-Giralt, Alemseged Beldados","doi":"10.1080/0067270x.2024.2316518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2024.2316518","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a synthesis of the hypotheses and evidence for plant domestication and the origins of agriculture in the northern Horn of Africa. To date, available archaeological data point ...","PeriodicalId":45689,"journal":{"name":"Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139951399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Begho (Ghana) revisited: examining archaeological archives and ‘excavating’ museum storages, Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, 2023","authors":"Daniel Kumah","doi":"10.1080/0067270x.2024.2316481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2024.2316481","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":45689,"journal":{"name":"Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139755719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peter R. Coutros, Igor Matonda, Jessamy H. Doman, Sara Pacchiarotti, Isis Mesfin, Koen Bostoen
{"title":"The beginning of the Iron Age south of the Congo rainforest: the first archaeological investigations around Idiofa (Congo), c. 146 BC – AD 1648","authors":"Peter R. Coutros, Igor Matonda, Jessamy H. Doman, Sara Pacchiarotti, Isis Mesfin, Koen Bostoen","doi":"10.1080/0067270x.2024.2296802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2024.2296802","url":null,"abstract":"Archaeological investigations of the Idiofa region in the Kwilu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo have yielded the earliest evidence for iron production, combined with ceramics and lithi...","PeriodicalId":45689,"journal":{"name":"Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139464091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The nineteenth-century Matabele settlements on the South African Highveld, University of the Witwatersrand, 2023","authors":"Renier van der Merwe","doi":"10.1080/0067270x.2024.2290417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2024.2290417","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (Ahead of Print, 2023)","PeriodicalId":45689,"journal":{"name":"Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138680752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatio-temporal inferences from the study of soapstone figurines in Esie, Kwara State, Nigeria","authors":"Kolawole Olugbenga Adekola","doi":"10.1080/0067270x.2023.2285154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2023.2285154","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2023)","PeriodicalId":45689,"journal":{"name":"Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa","volume":"471 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John Sutton (1937–2023)","authors":"Matthew Davies, Daryl Stump","doi":"10.1080/0067270x.2023.2285125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2023.2285125","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2023)","PeriodicalId":45689,"journal":{"name":"Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa","volume":"32 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Archaeological investigations of the Maldives in the medieval Islamic period: Ibn Battuta's island","authors":"E. Pollard","doi":"10.1080/0067270x.2023.2245248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2023.2245248","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45689,"journal":{"name":"Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83005865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Catherine D’Andrea, L. Welton, A. Manzo, Helina S. Woldekiros, S. Brandt, Alemseged Beldados, E. A. Peterson, L. Nixon-Darcus, Michela Gaudiello, Shannon R. Wood, H. Mekonnen, Stephen Batiuk, Yemane Meresa, Abel Ruiz-Giralt, C. Lancelotti, A. Taffere, L. M. Johnson
{"title":"The Pre-Aksumite Period: indigenous origins and development in the Horn of Africa","authors":"A. Catherine D’Andrea, L. Welton, A. Manzo, Helina S. Woldekiros, S. Brandt, Alemseged Beldados, E. A. Peterson, L. Nixon-Darcus, Michela Gaudiello, Shannon R. Wood, H. Mekonnen, Stephen Batiuk, Yemane Meresa, Abel Ruiz-Giralt, C. Lancelotti, A. Taffere, L. M. Johnson","doi":"10.1080/0067270x.2023.2236484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2023.2236484","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Pre-Aksumite Period (mid-second to late first millennia BC) witnessed the rise of complex societies in the Horn of Africa. Archaeological survey and excavations in the Gulo Makeda region of Eastern Tigrai by the Eastern Tigrai Archaeological Project (ETAP) have produced new data and insights into this critical juncture in the cultural history of the region. Based on data from Mezber and other archaeological sites, we present a new Pre-Aksumite chronology and discuss the material culture, settlement, political organisation, economy, agricultural history and regional interactions of this period. We recommend the use of the term ‘Pre-Aksumite Period’ to encompass this time when the earliest polities developed in the region. Mezber provides us with a glimpse into the lifeways of indigenous peoples inhabiting the northern Horn of Africa who encountered South Arabian visitors to the region during the early first millennium BC. Data from Mezber shift our focus from external influences to considering the culture and development of autochthonous peoples of the Ethiopian/Eritrean highlands who had an active role in negotiating cultural contacts. This perspective constitutes a missing piece of the puzzle needed to better understand the broader socio-economic, political and cultural dynamics of the Pre-Aksumite Period.","PeriodicalId":45689,"journal":{"name":"Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83583260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A deep dive into bodies as political capital","authors":"S. Pfeiffer","doi":"10.1080/0067270x.2023.2244319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2023.2244319","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45689,"journal":{"name":"Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91130862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Stephens, D. Killick, S. Chirikure, M. Bisson, M. Katongo, Fortune Munetsi
{"title":"Constellations of practice in copper ingots from Zambia and northern Zimbabwe, cal. AD 500–1700","authors":"J. Stephens, D. Killick, S. Chirikure, M. Bisson, M. Katongo, Fortune Munetsi","doi":"10.1080/0067270x.2023.2236481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2023.2236481","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45689,"journal":{"name":"Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79858712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}