Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, Volume 56, Issue 1 (2021)

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Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, Volume 56, Issue 1 (2021)

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Editorial
Editorial
Kevin MacDonald, Peter Mitchell & Peter Robertshaw
Pages: 1-3
Published online: 10 Mar 2021
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Hunter-gatherers on the basin’s edge: a preliminary look at Holocene human occupation of Nangara-Komba Shelter, Central African Republic
Karen D. Lupo, Dave N. Schmitt, Jean-Paul Ndanga, Lucien P. Nguerede, Guy T. Amaye, Alexandre Livingstone Smith, Nicolette M. Edwards, Robert C. Power, D. Craig Young & Frank Npo
Pages: 4-33
Published online: 13 Jan 2021
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The devil’s in the detail: revisiting the ceiling panel at RSA CHI1, Kamberg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
J. David Lewis-Williams, David G. Pearce, David M. Witelson & Sam Challis
Pages: 34-59
Published online: 02 Feb 2021
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The Carboneras Beach archaeological site on Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea): old data and new stories about a unique culture
Bernard Clist & Pierre de Maret
Pages: 60-89
Published online: 18 Jan 2021
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Dwelling after Makuria: the organisation and function of space in houses of the Funj period in Old Dongola, Nubia
Maciej Wyżgoł
Pages: 90-114
Published online: 12 Jan 2021
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‘No one remains living in the past’: the dynamics of pottery technological styles in southwestern Ethiopia
Bula Wayessa
Pages: 115-139
Published online: 12 Jan 2021
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Burials, migration, and identity in the ancient Sahara and beyond
edited by Maria Carmela Gatto, David J. Mattingly, Nick Ray and Martin Sterry. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 561pp., £100/$140 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-108-47408-5. Also available as an eBook ($112), ISBN 978-1-108-61651-5.
Michael Brass
Pages: 140-142
Published online: 17 Sep 2020
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Urbanisation and state formation in the ancient Sahara and beyond
edited by Martin Sterry and David J. Mattingly. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, £135/$175 (hardback), 764 pp., ISBN 9781108494441. Also available as an eBook ($140), ISBN 9781108787178.
J. Cameron Monroe
Pages: 142-145
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Foragers in the middle Limpopo Valley: trade, place-making, and social complexity
by Tim Forssman. Oxford, Archaeopress, 2020, 140pp., £35.00 (paperback), ISBN 9781789696851. Also available free online, ISBN 9781789696868.
Iris Guillemard
Pages: 145-147
Published online: 25 Jan 2021
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An Azanian trio: three East African Arabic historical documents
translated and edited by James McL. Ritchie & Sigvard von Sicard. Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2019, $119 (hardback), xvi + 314 pp., ISBN 978-90-04-39518-3. Also available as an eBook ($119), ISBN 978-90-04-25860-0.
Anna Rita Coppola
Pages: 147-148
Published online: 20 Oct 2020
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PhD Abstract

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New approach to the evaluation of internal variability in the Acheulean: a case study of Garba I (Melka Kunture, Ethiopia) (Contribution à l’évaluation de la variation interne des industries acheuléennes. Le cas de Garba I (Melka Kunture, Ethiopie))
Sol Sánchez-Dehesa Galán
Pages: 149-150
Published online: 11 Nov 2020
CitationforNew approach to the evaluation of internal variability in the Acheulean: a case study of Garba I (Melka Kunture, Ethiopia) (Contribution à l’évaluation de la variation interne des industries acheuléennes. Le cas de Garba I (Melka Kunture, Ethiopie)) | Full Text | PDF (192.3 KB) | EPUB
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Change and continuity in the lithic technologies from Final to Ceramic Final Later Stone Age, Limpopo Basin, southern Africa
Iris Guillemard
Pages: 150-151
Published online: 12 Jan 2021
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Variability among Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers in eastern Africa
Mica B. Jones
Pages: 151-152
Published online: 21 Jan 2021
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States, agency, and power on the ‘peripheries’: exploring the archaeology of the Later Iron Age societies in precolonial Mberengwa, CE 1300-1600s
Robert T. Nyamushosho
Page: 152
Published online: 05 Feb 2021
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