Title & Author:

The Oxford handbook of African archaeology / edited by Peter Mitchell and Paul Lane.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Description:

xxiv, 1052 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 cm.

Series:

[Oxford handbooks]

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Library copy: includes annotations.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9780199569885 (hardcover)
0199569886 (hardcover)
(ebook)
9780191750090

Subject:

Archaeology Africa.
Excavations (Archaeology) Africa.
Archéologie Afrique.
Fouilles (Archéologie) Afrique.
Antiquities
Archaeology
Excavations (Archaeology)
Archäologie.
Africa History.
Africa Antiquities.
Afrique Histoire.
Africa
Afrika.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Mitchell, Peter, 1962- editor.
Lane, Paul (Paul J.), editor.
Antoni Folkers and Belinda van Buiten Library, donor.
Oxford handbooks.

African archaeology

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316433
Call No.: 316433
Copy: 1
Status: Available