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Papers

(The median citation count of Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Landscape-scale perspectives on Stone Age behavioural change from the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa	10
Hunter-gatherers on the basin’s edge: a preliminary look at Holocene human occupation of Nangara-Komba Shelter, Central African Republic	8
Local animal economies during the nineteenth-century caravan trade along the Lower Pangani, northeastern Tanzania: a zooarchaeological perspective	6
The final MSA of eastern South Africa: a comparative study between Umbeli Belli and Sibhudu	6
The Pre-Aksumite Period: indigenous origins and development in the Horn of Africa	5
The end of a long journey. Tumulus burials in Gran Canaria (Canary Islands) in the second half of the first millennium AD	5
The Middle Stone Age in the Eastern Desert. EDAR 135 — a buried early MIS 5 horizon from Sudan	5
States, agency, and power on the ‘peripheries’: exploring the archaeology of the Later Iron Age societies in precolonial Mberengwa, CE 1300-1600s	4
The Carboneras Beach archaeological site on Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea): old data and new stories about a unique culture	4
Iron Age sites in northern Botswana’s Okavango Delta 1: the southern Delta sites Mat82 and Matlapaneng plus Qogana on the region’s eastern margin	4
The devil’s in the detail: revisiting the ceiling panel at RSA CHI1, Kamberg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	4
A reassessment of archaeological human remains recovered from rock shelters in Cathkin Peak, South Africa	4
‘Things of the outside teach me’: identity transfer and contextual transformation as expressions of persistent, syncretic cosmology in traditional spiritual and medicinal practice in the south-central	4
Southern African Stone Age archaeology and palaeontology in a mining context: the example of Gudrun Corvinus in the diamond mines of the Sperrgebiet, Namibia (1976–1980)	3
Using the radiocarbon dates of Central Africa for studying long-term demographic trends of the last 50,000 years: potential and pitfalls	3
Ruined towns in Nugaal: a forgotten medieval civilisation in interior Somalia	3
Rock art and performance in the Stormberg, South Africa	3
Imported ornaments of a Late Antiquity community in Christian Ethiopia	3
Stone point variability reveals spatial, chronological and environmental structuring of eastern African Middle Stone Age populations	3
Ecology and demography of early Homo sapiens : a synthesis of archaeological and climatic data from eastern Africa	3
The Diepkloof Rock Shelter foodplant fitness landscape, Western Cape, South Africa	3
A generic MSA: what problems will it solve and what problems will it create?	2
Change and continuity in the lithic technologies from Final to Ceramic Final Later Stone Age, Limpopo Basin, southern Africa	2
Cloaks and torsos: image recognition, ethnography and male initiation events in the rock art of the Western Cape	2
The Last Glacial Maximum and acceleration of technological change in the Lesotho highlands	2

Exploring arrow poisons from Windvogel’s Country, Eastern Cape, South Africa: a discussion between Piet Windvogel and William Atherstone on 6 February 1846	2
Foragers during a period of social upheaval at Little Muck Shelter, southern Africa	2
‘No one remains living in the past’: the dynamics of pottery technological styles in southwestern Ethiopia	2
Was there a shift from Levallois to Still Bay point knapping at Hollow Rock Shelter, South Africa?	2
‘What sort of thing is an elephant?’ Reviewing the evidence for a ‘generic’ MSA in Central Africa	2
The other MSA: non-Aterian lithic assemblages in Algeria, characteristics and attribution	2
Iron Age sites in northern Botswana’s Okavango Delta 3: Lotshitshi, a Later Stone Age/Bambata/Recent site on the Delta margin	2
Dwelling after Makuria: the organisation and function of space in houses of the Funj period in Old Dongola, Nubia	2
San rock paintings of women in the southern Maloti-Drakensberg and eastern Stormberg, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa: ritual specialists, potency and social conditioning	2
Ship graffiti at the Zanzibar Gereza (Old Fort), Stone Town, Unguja, Tanzania	2
Early Kanem-Borno fired brick élite locations in Kanem, Chad: archaeological and historical implications	1
Archaeological survey near Tsabong, Kgalagadi District, southwestern Botswana	1
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 acheuléen	1
The Aterian site of Phacochères (northern Algeria): a zooarchaeological perspective	1
Technical ceramics for salt production in Western Sahara	1
Human settlement successions and lithic technology in the Kalokol area (west Lake Turkana, Kenya) during the African Humid Period	1
A multi-component forager-to-herder sequence at Kapsoo Rockshelter (Chebinyiny) on the Uasin Gishu Plateau, Kenya	1
Reconnaissance survey of Zulu kingdom period amakhanda in the emaKhosini Basin, South Africa	1
Editorial	1
From settlement patterns to memory of place among Holocene hunter-gatherers at Sai Island, Middle Nile Valley	1
Revisiting site history and regional interaction at the Dia settlement mound complex, Mali	1
Re-examining Jebel Moya figurines: new directions for figurine studies in Sudan	1
A preliminary phytolith analysis of terrace soils from Buffelskloof, Mpumalanga, South Africa	1
Constellations of practice in copper ingots from Zambia and northern Zimbabwe, cal. AD 500–1700	1
Archaeology and archaeometallurgy in Limpopo Province, South Africa: case studies of the Early Iron Age sites of Mutoti and Thomo	1
Hafting adhesives from the final Later Stone Age layers at Sehonghong, Lesotho: a case study and commentary on the use of imported resources by nineteenth-century San	1
Straight from the cow’s mouth: investigating procurement and management strategies in cattle supplied to Great Zimbabwe using a multi-isotopic approach	1
The generic Middle Stone Age: fact or fiction?	1
Iron Age sites in northern Botswana’s Okavango Delta 2: the Xaro sites in the Panhandle of the river-delta system	1
Time, the Middle Stone Age and lithic analyses following the Third Science Revolution	1
Mtanye revisited: new insights into the Middle Iron Age of southern Zambezia	1
Escape and abscond: the use of ostrich potency by nineteenth-century rock artists in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	1
Mobile technologies in the ancient Sahara and beyond	0
Nicholas David (1937–2023)	0
Interpreting unusual imagery: a rare rock art depiction of a bushbuck in the southeastern mountains of South Africa	0
Foragers in the middle Limpopo Valley: trade, place-making, and social complexity	0
Exploring personhood and identity marking: paintings of lions and felines in San rock art sites from the southern Maloti-Drakensberg and northeastern Stormberg, South Africa.	0
Spatio-temporal inferences from the study of soapstone figurines in Esie, Kwara State, Nigeria	0
Correction	0
Revisiting the current phyto-scape of Boomplaas Cave (South Africa) and the possible implications of this for past day-range foraging	0
PHD Abstract	0
Examining Late Pastoral Neolithic Settlement at Silanga (GvJm52), Lukenya Hill, Kenya	0
Vidas entre conchas: dinâmicas sociais na construção de concheiros entre os Diola da Guiné-Bissau, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2022 (Life among shells: social dynamics in the const	0
Divine consumption: sacrifice, alliance building, and making ancestors in West Africa	0
The development of crop production in the northern Horn of Africa: a review of the archaeobotanical evidence	0
Palaces of stone: uncovering ancient southern African kingdoms	0
Archaeological survey in the Machili Valley, Zambia: a report on the 2019 preliminary field season	0
The Yorùbá: a new history	0
Reclaiming Great Zimbabwe: progressive or regressive decoloniality?	0
SEM-EDS identification of glass groups in Meroitic period and Early Nobadian Nubia	0

Social inference from mortuary remains in medieval Nubia: a multidisciplinary approach to the analysis and interpretation of Christian cemeteries at Ghazali, northern Sudan	0
Pleistocene archaeology and environments of the Free State, South Africa	0
The scarcity slot: excavating histories of food security in Ghana	0
Heritage commodification: a study of Forts Metal Cross, Gross Friedrichsburg and Apollonia in the Western Region of Ghana	0
Ostrich eggshell bead-making in East Africa: a study of crafting in the El Molo community, Kenya	0
Editorial	0
The technology and microwear of the bone tools from Broederstroom, an Early Iron Age site in the Magaliesberg, South Africa	0
The exploitation, processing and use of softstone in northern Madagascar and its links to the Indian Ocean world, 800–1500 CE	0
Du Capsien chasseur au Capsien Pasteur. Pour un modèle régional de néolithisation	0
Edwin Wilmsen (1932–2023): a personal view	0
Speaking with substance: methods of language and materials in African history	0
Correction	0
Urbanisation and state formation in the ancient Sahara and beyond	0
Adornment deposits: a study of bead and jewellery remains from Late Antiquity tombs in the Red Sea port of Berenike	0
Experiments in Egyptian archaeology — Stoneworking technology in ancient Egypt Experiments in Egyptian archaeology — Stoneworking technology in ancient Egypt , second ed	0
Making connections: ostrich eggshell beads as indicators of precolonial societal interaction in southeastern southern Africa	0
Archaeological investigations of the Maldives in the medieval Islamic period: Ibn Battuta's island Archaeological investigations of the Maldives in the medieval Islamic period: Ibn Batt	0
Editorial	0
Remembering Turkana: material histories and contemporary livelihoods in north-western Kenya	0
Twentieth-century Bena iron production in the Njombe district of Tanzania	0
Paul Sinclair (1949–2023) — In memoriam	0
Variability among Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers in eastern Africa	0
Begho (Ghana) revisited: examining archaeological archives and ‘excavating’ museum storages , Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, 2023	0
East Africa’s human environment interactions: historical perspectives for a sustainable future	0
A new interpretation of the military settlements of the northern Nguni	0
Namib: the archaeology of an African desert	0
Tom Huffman (1944–2022)	0
Pottery décor as networks on the Middle Niger, Mali	0
Material taxonomies and beads on the East African coast, seventh-fifteenth centuries AD	0
Données sur la métallurgie ancienne du fer dans la périphérie est de Ouagadougou au Burkina Faso: résultats de recherche des sites de production ancienne du fer à Gonsé	0
The nineteenth-century Matabele settlements on the South African Highveld , University of the Witwatersrand, 2023	0
Editorial	0
Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery	0
Iron metallurgy in northeastern Madagascar: a study of Rasikajy metallurgical production between the 11th and 15th century	0
China and East Africa; ancient ties, contemporary flows	0
PhD Abstract *Herders in a desert — material cultural, zooarchaeological, and biomolecular evidence for herding in the Namaqualand Coastal Desert of South Africa*	0
A deep dive into bodies as political capital The politics of the dead in Zimbabwe, 2000–2020: bones, rumours and spirits , by Joost Fontein. Woodbridge, James Currey, 20	0
The settlement of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria: an archaeological and ethnohistorical investigation	0
Festins et pratiques alimentaires à Lambaye et ses environs, 1500–1900 (royaume historique du Baol), Sénégal	0
Graham Connah (1934–2023): a personal remembrance and tribute	0
The art of music. The representation of musical instruments in the rock art of Zimbabwe	0
African islands: a comparative archaeology	0
Editorial	0
Zuurberg (Eastern Cape, South Africa) revisited: human remains, dating and archaeological findings	0
The prehistory of the Sudan	0
The beginning of the Iron Age south of the Congo rainforest: the first archaeological investigations around Idiofa (Congo), c. 146 BC – AD 1648	0
PhD Abstract	0
Art rupestre et patrimoine mondial en Afrique subsaharienne	0
New insights into the history of early Alwa: recent archaeological research in Umm Marrahi, Hosh el-Kab and Abu Nafisa forts (Khartoum Province, Sudan)	0
Landscape-scale perspectives on Later Stone Age settlement in the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa	0
Kasongo-Tongoni: a nineteenth-century caravan town in Maniema, Democratic Republic of Congo	0
John Sutton (1937–2023)	0
Poking holes in things: a view from the museum	0
Teniky: enigmatic architecture at an archaeological site in southern Madagascar	0
Salt production during the Plain Ware Phase along the Swahili coast of Tanzania	0
Small tool production in the Howiesons Poort: a view from Montagu Cave, South Africa	0
Expansion atlantique et transformations des paysages à Lambaye, 1400–1900 (royaume du Baol) , Université Laval, 2024 ( Atlantic expansion and landscape transformation	0