{"title":"Material Science and the Present and Future of African Archaeology","authors":"Shadreck Chirikure","doi":"10.1007/s10437-023-09558-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-023-09558-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":"40 4","pages":"797 - 800"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10437-023-09558-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139264681","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":"The Future of Heritage Management and Development in Africa","authors":"Rachel King","doi":"10.1007/s10437-023-09559-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-023-09559-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":"40 4","pages":"781 - 784"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10437-023-09559-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135241579","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":"Training and Collaboration in African Archaeology","authors":"Elgidius B. Ichumbaki","doi":"10.1007/s10437-023-09560-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-023-09560-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":"40 4","pages":"785 - 788"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135241582","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":"Stéphane Pradines: Historic mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Timbuktu to Zanzibar","authors":"Nathan J. Anderson","doi":"10.1007/s10437-023-09555-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-023-09555-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":"40 4","pages":"827 - 829"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135254351","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 Tichitt Culture and the Malian Lakes Region","authors":"Robert Vernet, Nikolas Gestrich, Peter R. Coutros","doi":"10.1007/s10437-023-09554-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-023-09554-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Tichitt culture of the Ceramic Late Stone Age is known for its large settlement sites, built from dry stone walls. It is centered on the cliffs of southeastern Mauritania, but its links to the Middle Niger and the later urban developments there have long been a topic of research. This article adds a further piece of evidence linking the two regions. The available evidence for a set of stone-walled features is presented, around 300 sites of varying sizes and complexity. They lie on and around the sandstone massifs of the Malian Lakes Region. The evidence is so far tentative as no dating or material culture is available, but the sites are presented as a research priority for the future.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":"40 4","pages":"761 - 773"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10437-023-09554-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135537320","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}
Mantas Valancius, Patrick Quinn, Michael Brass, I. Vella Gregory, Ahmed Adam, Julie Dunne, Richard P. Evershed
{"title":"Production and Use of Ceramics in the First Millennium BC: Jebel Moya, Sudan","authors":"Mantas Valancius, Patrick Quinn, Michael Brass, I. Vella Gregory, Ahmed Adam, Julie Dunne, Richard P. Evershed","doi":"10.1007/s10437-023-09552-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-023-09552-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The site of Jebel Moya, situated in the center of the southern Gezira Plain in southcentral Sudan, has an occupational sequence spanning at least five millennia until around 2000 years ago. Renewed excavation is shedding new light on its occupational chronology and socioeconomic history, including activities such as burial, savanna herding, and domesticated sorghum cultivation practices dating to at least the mid-third millennium BC. In the present study, predominantly final phase pottery sherds from the first millennium BC to the start of the first millennium AD (Assemblage 3) have been analyzed via a combination of thin section petrography and instrumental geochemistry to determine their raw materials and place of manufacture and reconstruct their manufacturing technology. Organic residue analysis was also conducted to identify the products processed within vessels found at the site. The results suggest the existence of a well-developed local ceramic craft tradition that persisted for over one thousand years. Pots from Assemblage 3 were used to process, store, and consume animal and plant products, thus reinforcing emerging evidence for early agro-pastoral activities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"97 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10437-023-09552-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135304827","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":"Science, Not Black Magic: Metal and Glass Production in Africa","authors":"Foreman Bandama, Abidemi Babatunde Babalola","doi":"10.1007/s10437-023-09545-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-023-09545-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ongoing research continues to show that ancient Africans had their own versions of science that were embedded in local contexts. The apparent lack of writing systems in most of the continent, especially south of the Sahara, was used to undermine the continent’s scientific achievements. Rather than relegate Africa to a simple receiver of science and technology, ancient Africans should be celebrated for their successful improvisation and experimentation. We discuss processes of metal and glass production in western and southern Africa to reveal key aspects of the scientific method in these ancient African technologies and situate the knowledge within an appreciation of inclusive education that embraces diverse ideas and practices of science and technology.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":"40 3","pages":"531 - 543"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10437-023-09545-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50479146","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}
Lenka Varadzinová, Jiří Unger, Martin Černý, Ladislav Varadzin
{"title":"Prehistoric Rock Art of Jebel Shaqadud, Northwestern Butana (Sudan)","authors":"Lenka Varadzinová, Jiří Unger, Martin Černý, Ladislav Varadzin","doi":"10.1007/s10437-023-09549-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-023-09549-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The dating and meaning of petroglyphs constitute a challenge in African rock-art research. In this article, we present and discuss a recently found rock-art assemblage from the Shaqadud site complex (Sudan), a site aggregation that nicely documents Holocene prehistoric cultural adaptations in non-aquatic, deep-savanna environments in what is today the Eastern Sahel. The rock-art corpus contains 120 identifiable motifs with a clear predominance of giraffes (<i>n</i> = 113, 94.2%) that are of small dimensions (< 50 cm) and are shown in a limited number of compositions. The thematic and technological compactness of the assemblage suggests a chronological integrity of the local figurative rock art and a coherent thematic and technological mindset of its creators. The archaeological context and the general characteristics of the assemblage place the local figurative rock art between the beginning of the Holocene and the Late Neolithic, in absolute dates between ca. 8748–1639 cal BC. However, spatial and visual connections could suggest a narrower dating of the assemblage, to the late Khartoum Mesolithic, around 6421–6088 cal BC. The predominance of the giraffe in the Shaqadud rock art suggests that this species may have carried a special significance for the local prehistoric communities. At the same time, the lack of hunting scenes in the figurative assemblage indicates that the importance of the giraffe motif goes beyond subsistence.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"47 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135742170","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}