Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, Volume 52, Issue 2 (2017)

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Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, Volume 52, Issue 2 (2017)

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Exploring long distance trade in Somaliland (AD 1000–1900): preliminary results from the 2015–2016 field seasons
Alfredo González-Ruibal, Jorge de Torres, Manuel Antonio Franco, Mohammed Abdi Ali, Abdisallam Mohamed Shabelle, Candela Martínez Barrio & Khader Ahmed Aideed
Pages: 135-172
Published online: 16 Jun 2017
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Ship engravings at Kilepwa, Mida Creek, Kenya
Edward Pollard & Caesar Bita
Pages: 173-191
Published online: 31 Jan 2017
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‘People will no longer be people but will have markings and be animals’: investigating connections between diet, myth, ritual and rock art in southern African archaeology
Thembi Russell
Pages: 192-208
Published online: 31 Jan 2017
Abstractfor‘People will no longer be people but will have markings and be animals’: investigating connections between diet, myth, ritual and rock art in southern African archaeology | Full Text | References | PDF (2.4 MB)
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Teething problems in cereal cultivation in prehistoric Egypt: a restudy of Fayum Neolithic sickle blades
Noriyuki Shirai
Pages: 209-232
Published online: 06 Jun 2017
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Two Holocene Later Stone Age stratigraphies from the Sesfontein area, northwestern Namibia
Götz Ossendorf
Pages: 233-266
Published online: 18 Apr 2017
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Obituary

Obituary
Jan Vansina (1929–2017): a founder figure in the study of Africa’s past, early and recent
David Schoenbrun
Pages: 267-270
Published online: 24 May 2017
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Book Review
Holocene prehistory in the Télidjène basin, Eastern Algeria: Capsian occupations at Kef Zoura D and Aïn Misteheyia
Jörg Linstädter
Pages: 271-273
Published online: 23 Jan 2017
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Swahili Urbanisation, Trade, and Food Production: Botanical Perspectives from Pemba Island, Tanzania, AD 600–1500
Daphne Gallagher
Pages: 273-275
Published online: 10 Apr 2017
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Pastoralist settlement and the anthropogenic savannah: the archaeo-ecology of Maili Sita, Kenya
Oliver Boles
Page: 276
Published online: 09 May 2017
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Behaviour, biology, and ecology: investigating the impact of ecological constraints on prehistoric southern African skeletal phenotypes
Michelle Cameron
Pages: 276-277
Published online: 09 Feb 2017
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‘Phalaborwa where the hammer is heard’: crafting together the political economy of Iron Age communities in southern Africa, AD 900–1900
Abigail Joy Moffett
Page: 278
Published online: 22 May 2017
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Lithic miniaturization in late Pleistocene southern Africa
Justin Pargeter
Pages: 278-281
Published online: 06 Jun 2017
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The prehistory of Madagascar: microbotanical and archaeological evidence from coastal and highland sites
Solomon Pomerantz
Page: 281
Published online: 09 May 2017
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Mobilising stone: investigating relations of materiality, movement and corporality in Holocene Saharan rock-art
Victoria Waldock
Pages: 281-282
Published online: 09 Mar 2017
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