• East African Archaeology
1 1

East African Archaeology

$49.95
$49.95 $49.95
Sold out
The goal of this volume is to impart an appreciation of the many facets of East Africa's cultural and archaeological diversity over the last 2,000 years. It brings together chapters on East African...
Read More
  • 24 November 2010
View Product Details
The goal of this volume is to impart an appreciation of the many facets of East Africa's cultural and archaeological diversity over the last 2,000 years. It brings together chapters on East African archaeology, many by Africa-born archaeologists who review what is known, present new research, and pinpoint issues of debate and anomaly in the relatively poorly known prehistory of East Africa.
files/i.png Icon
Price: $49.95
Pages: 226
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Publication Date: 24 November 2010
ISBN: 9781934536261
Format: eBook
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology by period / region, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
REVIEWS Icon

Figures and Tables
Preface

1. Comparing Prehistoric and Historic Hunter-Gatherer Mobility in Southern Kenya
2. The East African Neolithic: A Historical Perspective
3. Archaeological Implications of Hadzabe Forager Land Use in the Eyasi Basin, Tanzania
4. Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology: Some Examples from Kenya
5. Fipa Iron Technologies and Their Implied Social History
6. Early Ironworking Communities on the East African Coast: Excavations at Kivinja, Tanzania
7. Ironworking on the Swahili Coast of Kenya
8. Iron Age Settlement Patterns and Economic Change on Zanzibar and Pemba Islands
9. Politics, Cattle, and Conservation: Ngorongoro Crater at a Crossroads
10. Explaining the Origins of the State in East Africa
11. East African Archaeology: A South African Perspective

References
Contributors
Index