Title:
The Oxford handbook of African archaeology / edited by Peter Mitchell and Paul Lane.
Author:
Mitchell, Peter, 1962- editor of compilation.
Lane, Paul (Paul J.), editor of compilation.
Publication Information:
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Call Number:
DT13 .O94 2013
Abstract:
This handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of African archaeology, covering the entirety of the continent's past from the beginnings of human evolution to the archaeological legacy of European colonialism. As well as covering almost all periods and regions of the continent, it includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates, and situates the subject's contemporary practice within the discipline's history and the infrastructural challenges now facing its practitioners. Bringing together essays on all these themes from over seventy contributors, many of them living and working in Africa, it offers a highly accessible, contemporary account of the subject for use by scholars and students of not only archaeology, but also history, anthropology, and other disciplines.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780199569885
Series:
[Oxford handbooks]
Oxford handbooks.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 1052 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents:
Part I. Introduction. Introducing African archaeology / Peter Mitchell and Paul Lane -- Part II. Doing African archaeology : theory, method, practice -- Part III. Becoming human -- Part IV. Hunters, gatherers, and intensifiers : the diversity of African foragers -- Part V. Food for thought : the archaeology of African pastoralist and farming communities -- Part VI. Power, prestige, and consumption : African towns and states and their neighbours -- Part VII. African societies and the modern world system
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