A5018271104- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- African Studies and Geopolitics
- African history and culture analysis
- African history and culture studies
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- African Studies and Ethnography
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Cultural Identity and Heritage
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Linguistics and Cultural Studies
- Islamic Thought and Society Studies
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Law, logistics, and international trade
- Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
- Archaeological and Historical Studies
University of East Anglia
2014-2024
Sainsbury Laboratory
1999-2021
African Studies Centre
2015-2018
Norwich Research Park
2013-2018
Newcastle University
2008
University of Newcastle Australia
2008
Manchester College
2005
University of Oxford
2003-2005
Oxford Archaeology
2003
Holy Cross College
2001
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Strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) analysis with reference to strontium landscapes (Sr isoscapes) allows reconstructing mobility and migration in archaeology, ecology, forensics. However, despite the vast potential of research involving 87Sr/86Sr particularly Africa, Sr isoscapes remain unavailable for largest parts continent. Here, we measure ratios 778 environmental samples from 24 African countries combine this data published model a bioavailable isoscape sub-Saharan Africa using random forest...
This paper explores how past polities of the central Sahel may have impacted on patterns ceramic production and distribution. Using as a case study assemblages from two sites in Niger, it examines, particular, whether surface treatment through rouletting (especially use folded strip carved wood roulettes) reflects political events. It broadens discussion to other parts West Africa and, drawing recent theory craft behaviours are learned shared, argues that there is an urgent need for studies...
In the context of “Crossroads Empires” project led by Anne Haour, one strand enquiry aims to understand history blacksmith groups and development iron production in Dendi country, northern Republic Benin. Numerous remains have been discovered, showing a great variability furnace design waste assemblages. At least three smelting traditions can be distinguished. this paper, we present site Kompa Moussékoubou (10 th /11 c. AD) which has investigated archaeological archaeometric methods. Beyond...
Despite the perceived importance of cowrie shells as indicators long-distance connections in West African past, their distribution and consumption patterns archaeological contexts remain surprisingly underexplored, a gap that is only partly explicable by sparse sites within sub-continent. General writings on timeline importation cowries into Africa often fail to take account latest evidence rely instead accounts drawn from historical or ethnographic documents. This paper based first-hand...
Beads are a prominent category of material culture in the African past. Crosscutting their study across temporal periods and geographical areas some general methodological theoretical convergences: categorisation beads terms materials methods manufacture, an emphasis on provenance distribution, analysis as 'social signals' relation to identity, networks status. This paper outlines conceptual framework 'making' discusses how such can expand existing analyses provide new avenues for studying...
Hausa society in West Africa has attracted researchers' attention for decades, and featured the historical record at least 500 years. Yet, no clear picture is available of trajectories that underpin ethnogenesis. This book addresses this gap, deploying interdisciplinary approaches to revisit questions which single disciplines have given partial answers, often due paucity written sources early periods history. Contributors draw from anthropology, linguistics, economic history, archaeology...
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The site of Garumele (Widi, Republic Niger) has many times been described, not least because its alleged connection to the early Kanem-Borno polity: it is said have served as a capital after Njimi was abandoned, and before Birnin Gazargamo built. But had never subjected systematic archaeological excavation, while in contrast neighbouring sites Nigeria, with apparently shared history, well studied past decades detailed analyses made ceramics excavated. Accordingly, preliminary work initiated...
Abstract The lost caravan of Ma’den Ijafen, Mauritania, with its cargo cowries and brass, is widely discussed in African archaeology, providing significant insight into the nature long-distance trade medieval period. While brass bars recovered by Théodore Monod during his expedition to site 1962 have received considerable attention, cowrie shells described comprehensive publication assemblage 1969 much less coverage. This issue was addressed a recent visit Institut Fondamental d’Afrique...
Studies of liminality have a long history in anthropology. In archaeology, identifying past people - rather than faceless entities through material culture is still work progress, but project that has seen increased attention recent years. Focusing on West Africa, this book argues we should explore what happens when the primary label assigned to person's identity an outsider he or she of, not in, society. Such outsiders can be found everywhere African past: rulers show off their foreign...