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{"title":"Preliminary Analysis of Ceramic Styles in Fier, Lankan, and Daffo, Southern Jos Plateau, Central Nigeria","authors":"Macham Mangut","doi":"10.1007/s10437-024-09596-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-024-09596-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ceramic motifs, forms, and paste attributes of domestic pottery offer insights into regional historical dynamics, especially if the chronostratigraphic contexts of the ceramics can be established through excavations, radiocarbon dates, and historical traditions. This study examines recently excavated ceramic assemblages from the southern Jos Plateau, the first archaeological study of ceramic assemblages from this region. This paper focuses on the ninth/tenth, through twelfth/thirteenth, and nineteenth/twentieth centuries ceramic rim forms, decorative motifs, and clay properties from Fier, Lankan, and Daffo communities. The study sheds light on the similarities and differences in styles and functions regionally and across time. It also explores the roles that the production, distribution, and consumption of domestic pottery played in the process of regional networks and intergroup relations over a thousand and five hundred years in the southern Jos Plateau. Finally, this study provides a valuable framework for future archaeological research in the region by setting a foundation for standardized ceramic classification.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":"41 3","pages":"417 - 442"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142443247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comment on Schmidt et al., “Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers”","authors":"David Schoenbrun","doi":"10.1007/s10437-024-09585-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-024-09585-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":"41 4","pages":"597 - 600"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141928815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Commentary on Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers","authors":"Emanuel Thomas Kessy","doi":"10.1007/s10437-024-09587-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-024-09587-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":"41 4","pages":"601 - 603"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141928170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Holl, A. F. C.: The Mobility Imperative: A Global Evolutionary Perspective of Human Migration","authors":"Koen Bostoen","doi":"10.1007/s10437-024-09598-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-024-09598-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":"41 3","pages":"505 - 507"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141804749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lucarelli, Rita, Joshua Aaron Roberson, and Steve Vinson (eds). Ancient Egypt, New Technology: The Present and Future of Computer Visualization, Virtual Reality, and Other Digital Humanities in Egyptology","authors":"Julia Budka","doi":"10.1007/s10437-024-09597-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-024-09597-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":"41 3","pages":"509 - 511"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10437-024-09597-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141806706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unveiling Site Visibility: A Study of Farming Communities in the Magaliesberg Region, South Africa","authors":"Mncedisi J. Siteleki","doi":"10.1007/s10437-024-09586-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-024-09586-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper explores the historical and contemporary significance of visibility in human interactions with their environments, particularly in the context of archaeology and the application of geographic information systems (GIS) for visibility analysis. The study highlights the role of visibility analysis in investigating not only the physical visibility of features in landscapes but also the cultural significance associated with seeing or not seeing them. It draws from the ‘visibility relates’ principle, which argues that individuals tend to establish connections with visible entities. The focus is on comparing nineteenth-century urban settlements (Kaditshwene, Molokwane, and Marothodi) in the Magaliesberg region of South Africa, particularly examining the strategic positioning of kraals within these Sotho-Tswana farming communities. These settlements are some of the more popular Late Farming Communities (AD 1300–1840) in South Africa; hence, they have archaeological background and are among the few, if not the only ones, that have LiDAR data coverage. The findings reveal distinctions in visibility at both settlement and household scalar levels, with Kaditshwene standing out as different from Marothodi and Molokwane. This suggests that kraals were strategically located to be more or less visible based on specific settlement circumstances, such as attracting people from other communities and concerns about cattle theft. This study contributes to GIS approaches to archaeological sites and landscapes in Africa and calls for more extensive use of geospatial statistics in African archaeology.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":"41 2","pages":"345 - 360"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10437-024-09586-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141656026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers","authors":"Peter R. Schmidt,&nbsp;Jonathan R. Walz,&nbsp;Jackline N. Besigye,&nbsp;John Krigbaum,&nbsp;Gilbert Oteyo,&nbsp;Julius B. Lejju,&nbsp;Raymond Asiimwe,&nbsp;Christopher Ehret,&nbsp;Alison Crowther,&nbsp;Ogeto Mwebi,&nbsp;Julie Dunne,&nbsp;Jane Schmidt,&nbsp;Charles Okeny,&nbsp;Amon Niwahereza,&nbsp;Doreen Yeko,&nbsp;Katie Bermudez,&nbsp;Isaac Echoru","doi":"10.1007/s10437-024-09583-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-024-09583-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Archaeological and environmental research by an international and interdisciplinary team opens new perspectives into the settlement histories of Kansyore, Early Iron Age, and Bigo period peoples in the once forested regions of the Ndali Crater Lakes Region (NCLR) of western Uganda. The research examines the role of Kansyore agropastoralists and their Early Iron Age and Bantu-speaking contemporaries in remaking a once forested environment into a forest-savannah mosaic from circa 500 BC to the end of the first millennium AD. Archaeological settlement and subsistence evidence is examined within a framework of social interaction of Sudanic speakers with Bantu speakers, drawing on historical linguistics and environmental studies to arrive at a new synthesis of late Holocene history in western Uganda. This perspective also unveils the significance and chronology of Boudiné ware, a long enigmatic ceramic tradition that we identify as contemporary to Transitional Urewe and deeply influenced through social interactions with those making Kansyore ceramics and inhabiting the same landscape. Using archaeological evidence from fifteen sites and multiple burials spanning from 400 to 1650 calAD, new views of ceramic histories, lifeways, and symbolic values are revealed, including Bigo period settlements that arose in what was an environmental refugium beginning in the early fourteenth century AD. This research also shows that the Kansyore of the forested region east of the Rwenzori Mountains had greater affinities to late Holocene archaeological evidence from western Equatoria, in the southern South Sudan, and Kansyore Island, Uganda, than it does to the Kansyore in eastern Kenya.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":"41 4","pages":"519 - 596"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10437-024-09583-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141665796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Correction: Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Agricultural Economy at Ona Adi, Tigrai (Ethiopia): First look at a 1000-Year History","authors":"Yemane Meresa,&nbsp;Abel Ruiz-Giralt,&nbsp;Alemseged Beldados,&nbsp;Carla Lancelotti,&nbsp;A. Catherine D’Andrea","doi":"10.1007/s10437-024-09595-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-024-09595-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":"41 2","pages":"269 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10437-024-09595-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142409435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Herman Ogoti Kiriama: The Legacy of Slavery in Coastal Kenya: Memory, Identity, and Heritage","authors":"Thomas J. Biginagwa","doi":"10.1007/s10437-024-09593-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-024-09593-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":"41 3","pages":"513 - 515"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142443263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Age and Graphic Attributes of the First Potteries of the Western Sahara","authors":"Joaquim Soler,&nbsp;Helena Ventura,&nbsp;Maria Saña,&nbsp;Isaac Rufí,&nbsp;Narcís Soler","doi":"10.1007/s10437-024-09588-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-024-09588-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Direct ¹⁴C accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates obtained on a selection of pottery sherds recovered from surface sites in the Western Sahara have confirmed that the first potteries of this region appeared at the middle of the seventh millennium cal. BP. From the geographical point of view, these early results are detected all along the latitudinal gradient and from the Atlantic to the inland regions, which indicates that adoption of the new ware was fast and uniform in the entire territory. The decorative motifs are dominated by herringbones and series of short segments, always impressed with combs. These graphisms do not correspond with the abundant and widely distributed rock art motifs of the same region. However, they do appear incised on the surfaces of the pierced ostrich eggs used as containers since the Epipaleolithic. This may indicate a certain degree of symbolic continuity between the Epipaleolithic and the Neolithic in this region.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":"41 3","pages":"405 - 416"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142443241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}