Download or read book Cultural Succession and Continuity in S E Nigeria written by V. Emenike Chikwendu and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excavations at the Ugwuagu Rockshelter and Ugwuagu Abandoned Village Sites in Afikpo uncovered a sequence of archaeological levels reflecting change in subsistence strategies from the Late Stone Age up to the present. The vidence contributes to our understanding of the emergence of agricultural economies in Africa.

Download or read book Double Descent and Gender Issues in the Cross River Region of Southeastern Nigeria written by Simon Ottenberg and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Double Descent and Gender Issues in the Cross River Region of Southeastern Nigeria By: Simon Ottenberg Double Descent and Gender Issues in the Cross River Region of Southeastern Nigeria is a comprehensive study of an unusual form of human descent among a number of societies in Nigeria’s Cross River Region. The author provides an in-depth history and analysis of the variations of regional groups and raises the thought-provoking question of how matrilineal and patrilineal relationships affect a society’s gender relations.

Download or read book Kom Kribi written by Philippe Lavachery and published by Africa Magna Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first preview of discoveries made in the longest archaeological trench ever dug in Africa. From the forests of coastal south Cameroon towards the dry savannas in southern Chad, the construction of the underground pipeline of the Chad Export Project enabled an international research team to investigate a transect of 1070 kilometers (!) length. The Kome-Kribi project demonstrates the exemplary application of rescue or preventive archaeology and of cultural heritage management with regard to a variety of involved political and commercial institutions. In areas previously almost unknown archaeologically an impressive number of 472 new sites from the Middle Stone Age to the Iron Age, many considered to be important, were located. Their description, including quantities of cultural materials, a chronological outline based on about sixty radiocarbon dates, and the integration of the new and known evidence in a synoptic consideration of the cultural development of Central Africa, provides a substantial base for further studies and, for those archaeologists less familiar with the region, also offers an introduction into the local prehistory. Finally, the authors have given us a vision on the abundance of information about Africa’s past that is still preserved in the ground and scarcely touched, so far.

Download or read book Precolonial Nigeria written by Akinwumi Ogundiran and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays examines different aspects of historical experience in Nigeria and the adjacent regions from the beginning of agricultural communities about 6,000 B.C. to the eve of colonial rule in the mid-nineteenth century. The volume is the first comprehensive book on the different approaches and themes in Nigeria's pre-colonial history, and it is informed throughout by inter-disciplinary approaches that integrate archaeological data with oral historical narratives, historical ethnography, material culture, and documentary sources. The volume opens with an introduction that problematizes the pre-colonial historiography in Nigeria, situates each chapter in critical historiographic contexts, and identifies pathways for further studies. The introduction is followed by twenty-two chapters addressing a wide range of topics, including regional and inter-group interactions, ethnicity and identity, gender relations, state formation and sociopolitical development, urbanization, migrations, institutional and technological innovations, the intersections of commerce and religion and their impacts on the integration of pre-colonial societies into the Islamic World System, the Atlantic Slave Trade and its impacts, and the prelude to the British colonial conquest. This is the third of the festschrifts to honor and celebrate the achievements of Professor Toyin Falola. Distinguished scholar, teacher, author/editor of over 50 books, and author of hundreds of articles, chapters, and reviews, Professor Falola is certainly the most prolific historian of Africa ever, and arguably the most versatile. The political economy and socio-economic dimensions of his works on pre-colonial Nigeria inform the analytical and thematic approaches of this volume. In so doing, these essays critically celebrate Toyin Falola's contributions to the historiography of Nigeria, and open up new imprints of Nigeria's past.

Download or read book The Emergence of Social and Political Complexity in the Shashi Limpopo Valley of Southern Africa AD 900 to 1300 written by John Anthony Calabrese and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 69 Series Editors: John Alexander, Laurence Smith and Timothy Insoll

Download or read book Antiquity written by Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section: Reviews.

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Download or read book Archaeology and History in l r District Central Yorubaland Nigeria 1200 1900 A D written by Akinwumi Ogundiran and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 2002 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociopolitical changes in the Ilare district of central Yorubaland in Nigeria led to the nucleation of small villages into larger towns and a new form of institutional organisation based on dynastic rules. This report studies the settlement history of the Ilare district from AD 1200 to 1900, its sociopolitical development and the transformation of its material culture based on oral history, ethnography and archaeology (investigations carried out in the late 1980s and 1990s). This evidence is then placed into a regional context lokking at how broader historical processes affected the Ilare area.

Download or read book Memory and the Mountain written by Timothy Clack and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the relationships between memory, experience and landscape from insights gained conducting ethnographic research; its primary focus is the Wachagga of Kilimanjaro, East Africa. In so doing this investigation into the memoryscape mightbe labelled an 'archaeological ethnography' for not only is it an ethnography produced by an archaeologist, it was conducted with archaeological applications in mind. The motivation of this ethnographical research was the theorisation of some issues involved in landscape archaeology. There has been considerable attention given to the religious dimensions of archaeological landscapes. The purpose of this study is to augment such appreciations by theorising the complex environmental relationsof a contemporary culture. Such theorisation enables recognition of the wealth of human experience that is archaeologically unknowable.

Download or read book Using Stone Tools written by Laurel Phillipson and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by Professor Rodolfo Fattovich. Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 77 Series Editors: John Alexander, Laurence Smith and Timothy Insoll.

Download or read book Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hunter gatherers and Farmers written by Carolyn R. Thorp and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks in general at the interaction between hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists across a perceived frontier, and more specifically, at the southwards movement of Bantu-speaking agriculturalists and their relationship with hunter-gatherers south and west of the Caldeon Valley, from the 16th to 19th century AD. Theoretical and practical approaches are taken from the ethnographic record and are applied to the investigation of evidence for the processes of interaction, cooperation and hostility across the frontier zone: stone tools, faunal and plant remains and ceramics.

Download or read book Archaeofaunal Remains from the Past 4000 Years in Sahelian West Africa written by Veerle Linseele and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 70 Series Editors: John Alexander, Laurence Smith and Timothy Insoll

Download or read book Excavations at Kasteelberg and the Origins of the Khoekhoen in the Western Cape South Africa written by Andrew Brown Smith and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 66 Series Editors: John Alexander and Laurence Smith

Download or read book Archaeological Investigations of Iron Age Sites in the Mema Region Mali West Africa written by Téréba Togola and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 73 Series Editors: John Alexander, Laurence Smith and Timothy Insoll

Download or read book Archaeology and Geoarchaeology of the Mukogodo Hills and Ewaso Ng iro Plains Central Kenya written by Frederic B. Pearl and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 59 Series Editors: John Alexander and Lawrence Smith

Download or read book The Kintampo Complex written by Joanna Casey and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 51 Series editor: John Alexander