Archaeology AfricaJames Currey Publishers, 1996 - 277 páginas Provides a detailed introduction to archaeology as practised in the African continent. Martin Hall explains how archaeologists find sites, design an excavation, date finds, and write history. The reader is given an outline of the history of the African continent, from the early hominids to the present. South Africa: David Philip/New Africa Books |
Contenido
Archaeology in Africa | 1 |
The scope of archaeology | 7 |
Public archaeology | 31 |
Questions | 55 |
Survey and sampling | 77 |
Excavation | 93 |
Time | 110 |
People and their environment | 127 |
Food | 164 |
Networks | 184 |
In the mind | 203 |
Writing the past | 220 |
Past tense | 239 |
The language of archaeology | 250 |
Bibliography | 263 |
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Términos y frases comunes
absolute dating African archaeology analysis approach archae archaeo archaeological evidence archaeological record archaeological sites artefacts behaviour Bobonong burial Cape Town Cave century ceramic changes clay climate collections colonial communities complex context continent Deacon deposits developed Early Iron Age ecological Egypt environment ethnoarchaeology example excavation farming fieldwork FIGURE fish flakes formation processes fossil groups Hall Holocene hominid human hunter-gatherers important interpretation Iron Age isotope Jenne-jeno Klasies River Klasies River Mouth known Lake landscape Layer living Lydenburg Maggs material culture McIntosh ment middens modern Museum nature objects paintings Parkington past patterns plant Pleistocene pollen pots pottery radiocarbon dates range region relative dating result rock shelters sample sequence seriation settlement social soil South Africa southern Africa species stone tools stratigraphy structure survey symbolic technique tion trade upstairs valley village West Africa Western Cape Zimbabwe
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Indigenous Archaeologies: Decolonising Theory and Practice Claire Smith,H. Martin Wobst Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |