Pub Date : 2024-11-27eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1080/0067270X.2024.2419778
Abigail Moffett, Anne Haour
Beads are a prominent category of material culture in the African past. Crosscutting their study across temporal periods and geographical areas are some general methodological and theoretical convergences: the categorisation of beads in terms of materials and methods of manufacture, an emphasis on provenance and distribution, and the analysis of beads as 'social signals' in relation to identity, networks and status. This paper outlines the conceptual framework of 'making' and discusses how such a framework can expand on existing analyses and provide new avenues for studying beads in the African past. Beads, like all forms of material culture, are the culmination of a dynamic process between materials and makers: the intermixing of ideas, substances and tools in time and space. A focus on making draws our attention to exploring the processes of bead composition in deeper focus, examining not only recycling and reuse but also the ways in which beads were made into composite items, such as garments or adornments. At the same time, a focus on making brings to light a concern for the encounters between material properties, knowledge, memory and sensory affects, encouraging an exploration of bead making as an assemblage of material and non-material things. We draw on a range of case studies from various regions across the African continent to illustrate the relevance of our approach for developing new insights into beads in the archaeological record.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1080/0067270x.2024.2389003
Noemie Arazi, Igor Matonda, Olivier Mulumbwa Luna, Alexandre Livingstone Smith
This article is devoted to the identification and preliminary archaeological research of Kasongo-Tongoni, an important caravan settlement located in the east of Central Africa to the west of Lake T...
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Pub Date : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1080/0067270x.2024.2379724
Michael B. Toffolo
Pleistocene climate variability is often seen as a major cause of much of the evidence observed in the archaeological and palaeontological record of Africa. While continent-wide climate systems pla...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-13DOI: 10.1080/0067270x.2024.2325827
Mark Seyram Amenyo-Xa
Published in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《Azania：非洲考古研究》（2024 年提前出版）
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Pub Date : 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1080/0067270x.2024.2316527
Joanna Then-Obłuska
Next to pottery, items of adornment comprise the most abundant material excavated in Northeast Africa, often being the only evidence for long-distance interactions. Interdisciplinary research has b...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1080/0067270x.2024.2325316
Anneli Ekblom
Published in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《Azania：非洲考古研究》（2024 年提前出版）
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1080/0067270x.2024.2316529
Sidy Ndour
Situé dans le centre-ouest du Sénégal, le royaume historique du Baol a joué un rôle majeur dans l’évolution politique, économique, culturelle, religieuse et sociale de l’histoire du Sénégal. Avec L...
{"title":"Festins et pratiques alimentaires à Lambaye et ses environs, 1500–1900 (royaume historique du Baol), Sénégal","authors":"Sidy Ndour","doi":"10.1080/0067270x.2024.2316529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2024.2316529","url":null,"abstract":"Situé dans le centre-ouest du Sénégal, le royaume historique du Baol a joué un rôle majeur dans l’évolution politique, économique, culturelle, religieuse et sociale de l’histoire du Sénégal. Avec L...","PeriodicalId":45689,"journal":{"name":"Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa","volume":"690 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140019884","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}
Pub Date : 2024-02-28DOI: 10.1080/0067270x.2024.2316526
Maryna Steyn, Cecile Jolly, Carina M. Schlebusch, Anja Meyer
The Later Stone Age (LSA) site of Zuurberg in the Cape Fold Mountains of South Africa was excavated in the 1920s by F.W. FitzSimons. As with his other excavations, not much is known about the exact...
{"title":"Zuurberg (Eastern Cape, South Africa) revisited: human remains, dating and archaeological findings","authors":"Maryna Steyn, Cecile Jolly, Carina M. Schlebusch, Anja Meyer","doi":"10.1080/0067270x.2024.2316526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2024.2316526","url":null,"abstract":"The Later Stone Age (LSA) site of Zuurberg in the Cape Fold Mountains of South Africa was excavated in the 1920s by F.W. FitzSimons. As with his other excavations, not much is known about the exact...","PeriodicalId":45689,"journal":{"name":"Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa","volume":"135 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140005487","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}
Pub Date : 2024-02-28DOI: 10.1080/0067270x.2024.2316479
Sidy Ndour
Published in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《Azania：非洲考古研究》（2024 年提前出版）
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Pub Date : 2024-02-22DOI: 10.1080/0067270x.2024.2316518
Abel Ruiz-Giralt, Alemseged Beldados
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 ...
本文综述了非洲之角北部植物驯化和农业起源的假说和证据。迄今为止，现有的考古数据表明...
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