A landmark introduction to the archaeology of Africa that challenges misconceptions & claims about Africa�s
past and teaches students how to evaluate these claims.
Provides an unprecedented and exciting introduction to the archaeology of Africa
Challenges misconceptions & claims about Africa�s past and teaches students how to evaluate these claims
Includes a thoughtful introduction that explores the contexts that have shaped archaeological knowledge of
Africa's past
Lays out research questions that have shaped the contours of African archaeology
Comprised of chapters specifically written for this volume by prominent archaeologists with regional and topical
expertise
Table of Contents
1. Introduction. Changing Perspectives on Africa�s Pasts: Ann Brower Stahl
2. Barbarous Tribes and Unrewarding Gyrations? The Changing Role of Ethnographic Imagination in African Archaeology:
Paul J. Lane
3. Discord after Discard. Reconstructing Aspects of Oldowan Hominin Behavior: Thomas Plummer
4. The Middle and Upper Pleistocene African Record for the Biological and Behavioral Origins of Modern Humans:
Curtis W. Marean and Zelalem Assefa
5. A Late Pleistocene Archive of Life at the Coast, Klasies River: H. J. Deacon and Sarah Wurz
6. Modeling Later Stone Age Societies in Southern Africa: Peter Mitchell
7. Holocene "Aquatic" Adaptations in North Tropical Africa: Augustin F. C. Holl
8. Pastoralism and its Consequences: Diane Gifford-Gonzalez
9. Holocene Occupations of the Forest and Savanna: Joanna Casey
10. The Romance of Farming--Plant Cultivation and Domestication in Africa: Katharina Neumann
11. Metallurgy and its Consequences: S. Terry Childs and Eugenia W. Herbert
12. The Bantu Problem and African Archaeology: Manfred Eggert
13. The Archaeology of Sub-Saharan Urbanism: Cities and their Countrysides: Adria LaViolette and Jeff Fleisher
14. Interaction, Marginalization, and the Archaeology of the Kalahari: Andrew Reid
15. Southern Africa and the East African Coast: Gilbert Pwiti
16. Mosaics and Interactions: East Africa, 2000 B.P. to the Present: Chapurukha M. Kusimba and Sibel B. Kusimba
17. From Pottery Groups to Ethnic Groups in Central Africa: Pierre de Maret
18. Two Thousand Years of West African History: Scott MacEachern
