Pub Date : 2023-07-28DOI: 10.1007/s10437-023-09538-5
S. T. Smith
{"title":"Andrea Manzo: Ancient Egypt in its African Context: Economic Networks, Social and Cultural Interactions","authors":"S. T. Smith","doi":"10.1007/s10437-023-09538-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-023-09538-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52115956","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}
Pub Date : 2023-07-28DOI: 10.1007/s10437-023-09538-5
Stuart Tyson Smith
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Pub Date : 2023-07-20DOI: 10.1007/s10437-023-09536-7
Alice Leplongeon
{"title":"Giuseppina Mutri: Technological Styles in the Jebel Gharbi Lithic Industries of the Late Pleistocene (North-Western Libya)","authors":"Alice Leplongeon","doi":"10.1007/s10437-023-09536-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-023-09536-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50499780","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}
Pub Date : 2023-07-20DOI: 10.1007/s10437-023-09536-7
A. Leplongeon
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Pub Date : 2023-07-19DOI: 10.1007/s10437-023-09535-8
Bernard Clist, Philippe Béarez, Caroline Mougne, Joséphine Lesur, Wannes Hubau, Koen Bostoen
This article reports on new archaeological data obtained in 2018 from the coastal region of the Kongo Central province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The area’s ancient history is virtually unknown but is potentially of paramount importance in the context of the development of early village communities in Central Africa. The article focuses on the Muanda 6 site, dated to ⁓ 1400 BP, and offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the finds uncovered there. The site’s pottery is associated with shell and stone beads, ironworking remains, a stone quern, and biological remains testifying to a mixed subsistence system that took advantage of the region’s ecological diversity. The Early Iron Age occupants of Muanda 6 practiced ocean and mangrove fishing, gathered beach and mangrove gastropods and bivalves, hunted, and exploited oil palms. The article also discusses the Muanda 13 site, which is more recent (⁓ 1100 BP), and the results of the profile sampling at the Katala village. Both Muanda 6 and Muanda 13 yielded different ceramic types. Other pottery styles, surface collected between the Congo River and the Angolan province of Cabinda and probably of more recent date, are briefly described. The results provide new perspectives about the Iron Age in the DRC, providing further evidence of the cultural diversity in the Lower Congo region and an outline of the cultural sequence along the Atlantic Ocean coast.
Cet article rend compte de nouvelles données archéologiques obtenues en 2018 dans la région côtière de la Province du Kongo-Central en République démocratique du Congo. L’histoire ancienne de cette région est pratiquement inconnue, mais elle est potentiellement d'une importance capitale dans le contexte de l'installation des premiers villages en Afrique centrale. Les travaux se concentrent sur le site de Muanda 6, daté vers 1400 BP, dont les trouvailles sont étudiées dans une perspective multidisciplinaire. La poterie de ce site est associée à des perles de coquillages et de pierre, à des traces de travail du fer, et à une meule en pierre ainsi qu'à des restes biologiques témoignant d'un système de subsistance mixte reposant sur divers écotones. Les occupants de l’Age du Fer Ancien de Muanda 6 pratiquaient la pêche en mer et dans la mangrove, la collecte de gastéropodes et de bivalves sur la plage et dans la mangrove, la chasse et l'exploitation des palmiers à huile. Le site plus récent de Muanda 13 (vers 1100 BP), ainsi qu’une collecte stratigraphique dans la berge du village de Katala, ont permis de découvrir un autre type de céramique. L’article décrit un dernier style de poterie probablement plus récent et découvert en surface entre le fleuve Congo et la frontière de la province angolaise de Cabinda. Les résultats présentés ici offrent de nouvelles perspectives à l’Age du Fer sur la diversité culturelle dans la région du Bas-Congo et propose l’esquisse d’une séquence culturelle au long de la côte de l’Océan Atlantique.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.1007/s10437-023-09531-y
Andrew Skinner
{"title":"Andrew Smith: First People: The Lost History of the Khoisan","authors":"Andrew Skinner","doi":"10.1007/s10437-023-09531-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-023-09531-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45465549","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}
The territory of Tipasa, an iconic UNESCO landscape that comprises the ancient city of Mauretania and its Royal Mausoleum, has never been systematically investigated. The exception may be Gsell’s archaeological atlas of Algeria, compiled more than a century ago (Gsell, 1911). Since 2021, the TIPASA Project, a Spanish-Algerian survey program, was organized to shed light on this ill-studied ancient city and its territory. The survey approaches the subject from both the “site” and “off-site” perspectives, using tools such as remote sensing, field survey, and material culture, as well as an education program for Algerian students. This research is essential to understanding the part played by Punic, Hellenistic, Mauretanian, and Roman agents in creating the territory. The research methods and conceptual framework emphasize the particularities of North African cities and the creation of African-led networks in Antiquity across the Mediterranean, particularly the connections with the Iberian Peninsula before and after the imposition of Roman administrative structures.
{"title":"The Territory of Ancient Tipasa, Algeria: Archaeological Survey, Material Culture, and Connectivity in Central Maghreb","authors":"Alejandro Quevedo, Jesús García-Sánchez, Rafik Khellaf, Youcef Bensaidani","doi":"10.1007/s10437-023-09529-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-023-09529-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The territory of Tipasa, an iconic UNESCO landscape that comprises the ancient city of Mauretania and its Royal Mausoleum, has never been systematically investigated. The exception may be Gsell’s archaeological atlas of Algeria, compiled more than a century ago (Gsell, 1911). Since 2021, the TIPASA Project, a Spanish-Algerian survey program, was organized to shed light on this ill-studied ancient city and its territory. The survey approaches the subject from both the “site” and “off-site” perspectives, using tools such as remote sensing, field survey, and material culture, as well as an education program for Algerian students. This research is essential to understanding the part played by Punic, Hellenistic, Mauretanian, and Roman agents in creating the territory. The research methods and conceptual framework emphasize the particularities of North African cities and the creation of African-led networks in Antiquity across the Mediterranean, particularly the connections with the Iberian Peninsula before and after the imposition of Roman administrative structures.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10437-023-09529-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44350909","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}
Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1007/s10437-023-09528-7
Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, Thilo Rehren
{"title":"Some Thoughts on Glass in African Archaeology: An Introduction","authors":"Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, Thilo Rehren","doi":"10.1007/s10437-023-09528-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-023-09528-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10437-023-09528-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9692305","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}
Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1007/s10437-023-09527-8
Ian C. Freestone
{"title":"Glass in African Archaeology: A New Methodology Offers New Opportunities","authors":"Ian C. Freestone","doi":"10.1007/s10437-023-09527-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10437-023-09527-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46493,"journal":{"name":"African Archaeological Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10437-023-09527-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43052430","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}