00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217611983893 Buklod 20230619154520.0 m go j cr |n |||auu|a 140116s2013 nyua rb |001 0|eng d 9780199569885 (hardcover) (iLib)UPD-00254212220 DLC DMLS rda eng DMLUC CC 101 A35 O94 2013 The Oxford handbook of African archaeology edited by Peter Mitchell and Paul Lane. African archaeology Oxford Oxford University Press [2013] xxiv, 1052 pages illustrations 26 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier [Oxford handbooks] 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. 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. Archaeology Africa. Excavations (Archaeology) Africa. Africa History. Africa Antiquities. Mitchell, Peter 1962- editor. Lane, Paul editor. (Paul J.). Book FO UPD DMLS CC 101 A35 O94 2013 Book