East African archaeology : foragers, potters, smiths, and traders /

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, a...

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Other Authors: Kusimba, Chapurukha Makokha (Editor), Kusimba, Sibel Barut, 1966- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, ©2003.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Comparing prehistoric and historic hunter-gatherer mobility in southern Kenya / Sibel B. Kusimba and Chapurukba M. Kusimba
  • East African Neolithic / Karega-Munene
  • Archaeological implications of Hadzabe forager land use in the Eyasu Basin, Tanzania / Audax Mabulla
  • Ceramic ethnoarchaeology / Simlyu Wandibba
  • Fipa iron technologies and their implied social history / Bertram B.B. Mapunda
  • Early ironworking communities on the East African coast / Felix Chami
  • Ironworking on the Swahili coast of Kenya / Chapurukba M. Kusimba and David Killick
  • Iron age settlement patterns and economic change on Zanzibar and Pemba Islands / Emanuel T. Kessy
  • Politics, cattle, and conversation / Charles Musiba and Audax Mabulla
  • Explaining the origins of the state in East Africa / Peter Robertshaw
  • East African archaeology / Peter Mitchell.