• List of Figures



• List of Tables



• List of Contributors



• Part 1: Introduction



• 1: Peter Mitchell and Paul Lane: Introducing African Archaeology



• Part II: Doing African Archaeology: Theory, Method, Practice



• 2: Graham Connah: Archaeological Practice in Africa: A Historical Perspective



• 3: Peter Schmidt: Oral History, Oral Traditions, and Archaeology: The Application of Structural Analyses



• 4: Roger Blench: Language, Linguistics, and Archaeology: Their Integration in the Study of African Prehistory



• 5: Scott MacEachern: Genetics and Archaeology



• 6: Ceri Ashley: Archaeology and Migration in Africa



• 7: Diane Lyons: Ethnoarchaeological Research in Africa



• 8: Christian Tryon: Studying African Stone Tools



• 9: Olivier Gosselain and Alexandre Livingstone-Smith): A Century of Ceramic Studies in Africa



• 10: Shadrack Chirikure: The Archaeology of African Metalworking



• 11: Benjamin Smith: Rock Art Research in Africa



• 12: Timothy Insoll: The Archaeology of Ritual and Religions in Africa



• 13: Stepahnie Wynne-Jones: Material Culture, Space, and Identity



• 14: Jeff Fleisher: Landscape Archaeology



• 15: Colin Breen: Maritime Archaeology in Africa



• 16: Noemie Arazi and Ibrahima Thiaw: Managing Africa's Archaeological Heritage



• 17: Chapurukha Kusimba and Carla Klehm: Museums and Public Archaeology in Africa



• 18: Amanda Esterhuysen and Paul Lane: Archaeology and Education



• 19: John Giblin: Politics, Ideology, and Indigenous Perspectives



• Part III: Becoming Human



• 20: Robert Foley: Hominin Evolution as the Context for African Prehistory



• 21: Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo: The Oldowan: Early Hominins and the Beginning of Human Culture



• 22: Mohamed Sahnouni, Sileshi Semaw and Michael Rogers: The African Acheulean: An Archaeological Summary



• 23: Marta Lahr: Genetic and Fossil Evidence for Modern Human Origins



• 24: Lawrence Barham: Beyond Modernity



• Part IV: Hunters, Gatherers, and Intensifiers: The Diversity of African Foragers



• 25: Lyn Wadley: Theoretical Frameworks for Understanding African Hunter-Gatherers



• 26: Marlize Lombard: Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa before 20,000 years ago



• 27: Laura Basell: The Middle Stone Age of Eastern Africa



• 28: Els Cornelissen: Hunting and Gathering in Africa's Tropical Forests at the end of the Pleistocene and in the Early Holocene



• 29: Elena Garcea: Hunter-Gatherers of the Nile Valley and the Sahara before 12,000 years ago



• 30: Nick Barton and Abdeljalil Bouzouggar: Hunter-Gatherers of the Maghreb: 25,000-6000 years ago



• 31: Barbara Barich: Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers of the Sahara and the Sahel 12,000-4000 years ago



• 32: Sibel Barut Kusimba: Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers of Eastern and South-Central Africa since 20,000 years ago



• 33: Peter Mitchell: Southern African Hunter-Gatherers of the last 25,000 years



• Part V: Food for Thought: The Archaeology of African Pastoralist and Farming Communities



• 34: Diane Gifford-Gonzalez and Olivier Hanotte: Domesticating Animals in Africa



• 35: Dorian Fuller and Elizabeth Hildebrand: Domesticating Plants in Africa



• 36: Savino Di Lernia: The Emergence and Spread of Herding in Northern Africa: A Critical Reappraisal



• 37: Randi Haaland and Gunnar Haaland: Early Farming Societies Along the Nile



• 38: Peter Breunig: Pathways to Food-Production in the Sahel



• 39: Matthew Curtis: Archaeological Evidence for the Emergence of Food-Production in the Horn of Africa



• 40: Paul Lane: The Archaeology of Pastoralism and Stock-Keeping in East Africa



• 41: Joanna Casey: The Stone to Metal Age in West Africa



• 42: Bertram Mapunda: The Appearance and Development of Metallurgy South of the Sahara



• 43: Pierre de Maret: Archaeologies of the Bantu Expansion



• 44: Karim Sadr: The Archaeology of Herding in Southernmost Africa



• 45: Peter Mitchell: Early Farming Communities of Southern and South-Central Africa



• 46: Daryl Stump: The Archaeology of Agricultural Intensification in Africa



• Part VI: Power, Prestige, and Consumption: African Towns and States and their Neighbours



• 47: Paul Sinclair: The Archaeology of African Urbanism



• 48: Cameron Monroe: The Archaeology of the Pre-Colonial State in Africa



• 49: Matthew Davies: The Archaeology of Clan- and Lineage-Based Societies in Africa



• 50: Ian Shaw: Pharaonic Egypt



• 51: Derek Welsby: Kerma and Kush and their Neighbours



• 52: Fares Moussa: Berber, Phoenicio-Punic, and Greek North Africa



• 53: Anna Leone and Fares Moussa: Roman Africa and the Sahara



• 54: David Edwards: Medieval and Post-Medieval States of the Nile Valley



• 55: David Phillipson: Complex Societies of the Eritrean/Ethiopian Highlands and their Neighbours



• 56: Said Ennahid: States, Trade, and Ethnicities in the Maghrib



• 57: Kevin MacDonald: Complex Societies, Urbanism, and Trade in the Western Sahel



• 58: Detlef Gronenborn: States and Trade in the Central Sahel



• 59: Akin Ogundiran: Towns and States of the West African Forest Belt



• 60: Pierre de Maret: Recent Farming Communities and States in the Congo Basin and its Environs



• 61: Andrew ReidNDREW REID: The Emergence of States in Great Lakes Africa



• 62: Adria Laviolette: The Swahili World



• 63: Innocent Pikirayi: The Zimbabwe Culture and its Neighbours: Origins, Development, and Consequences of Social Complexity in Southern Africa



• 64: Alex Schoeman: Southern African Late Farming Communities



• 65: Chantal Radimilahy: Madagascar from Initial Settlement to the Growth of Kingdoms



• Part VII: African Societies and the Modern World System



• 66: Intisar El Zein: The Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire in Northern and Northeastern Africa



• 67: Natalie Swanepoel: Contexts of Interaction: The Archaeology of European Exploration and Expansion in Western and Southern Africa in Comparative Perspective



• 68: Ibrahima Thiaw and François Richard: An archaeological Perspective on West Africa and the Post-1500 Atlantic World



• 69: Ken Kelly: Connecting the Archaeologies of the Atlantic World: Africa and the African Diasporas



• 70: Sarah croucher: The Archaeology of Colonial Encounters in Eastern Africa



• Index