African Archaeological Review

Papers
(The median citation count of African Archaeological Review 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Kom W and Z Basin: Surface Artifact Collection, Culture History, and the Argument Over Village Occupation32
John W. Arthur: Beer: A Global Journey Through the Past and Present11
Chicumbane Connections: Lower Limpopo Valley During the First Millennium AD10
The Ash Heaps of Kweneng, South Africa10
Commentary on Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers9
Characterization of Glass, Shell, and Fishbone Beads on Ibo Island (Northern Mozambique) in the Context of the Indian Ocean Trade8
Social and Cultural Dynamics in North Africa During the Holocene: An Introduction8
Abubakar Sule Sani: Imprints of the Archaeology of Northern Nigeria: Landscape, society and crafts around Kirfi, Bauchi region8
Shadreck Chirikure: Great Zimbabwe: Reclaiming a “Confiscated” Past8
Taking Stock of Foodplants Growing in the Cradle of Humankind Fossil Hominin Site, South Africa8
How African Pasts Can Inspire Alternative Responses to Climate Change: a Creative Writing Experiment7
African Museums, Archaeology, and Praxis5
The Tichitt Culture and the Malian Lakes Region5
Dola Angèle Aguigah: Archéologie et Architecture Traditionelle en Afrique de l’Ouest5
The Future of African Archaeology—The 2023 Perspectives5
Why Weaving? Teaching Heritage, Mathematics, Science and the Self4
Some Thoughts on Glass in African Archaeology: An Introduction4
Communities and the Dead in Africa and Ancient Ethiopia (50–800 CE)4
Malebogo Mvimi: Past Environments and Plant Use in Holocene Southern Africa. A Study of Charcoal and Seed Remains from the Late Stone Age Sites of Toteng (Botswana), Leopard Cave and Geduld (Namibia)4
Patterns of Violence in the Pre-Neolithic Nile Valley4
Giuseppina Mutri: Technological Styles in the Jebel Gharbi Lithic Industries of the Late Pleistocene (North-Western Libya)4
Sally C. Reynolds & René Bobe (Eds.): African Paleoecology and Human Evolution4
Jacques Aymeric Nsangou: Les fortifications endogènes au Sénégal Oriental (17ème – 19ème siècle)4
Interdisciplinary Research into the Legacy of the Medieval Metropolis of Soba in a Modern Khartoum Suburb3
The Oudierin Drainage Archaeological Project: New Perspectives on the Saloum Delta Shell Middens (Senegal)3
Geoffroy Heimlich (Ed.): Art Rupestre et Patrimoine Mondial en Afrique Subsaharienne3
Andrew Smith: First People: The Lost History of the Khoisan3
Solange Ashby: Calling Out to Isis: The Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae3
Yusuf M. Juwayeyi: Archaeology and Oral Traditions in Malawi3
The Urban Biography of a Mauritanian City: Microstratigraphic Analysis of the Eastern Quarter of Tamuda (Morocco)3
Akin Ogundiran: Archaeology of the Ọ̀yọ́ Empire, 2017–2021—a Photo Exhibition. Multipurpose Hall of the Old Oyo National Park (Nigerian National Park Service), Ọ̀yọ́, Nigeria. May 10, 2021 till furthe3
Chapurukha M. Kusimba, Tiequan Zhu, Purity Wakabari Kiura (Eds.): China and East Africa: Ancient Ties and Contemporary Flows3
Webber Ndoro, Shadreck Chirikure, and Jeanette Deacon: Managing Heritage in Africa. Who Cares?2
Akinwumi Ogundiran: The Yorùbá: A New History2
Chris Naunton: Egyptologists’ Notebooks2
Material Science and the Present and Future of African Archaeology2
A Contextual Reintegration of Shaw’s 1959–1964 Igbo-Ukwu Excavation Sites and Their Material Culture2
Later Stone Age Occupation on Iresi Hills: A New Dated Context in Southwest Nigeria2
Storytelling in Archaeology and the Quest for a Pedagogy of Renewal2
The African Archaeological Review Turns Forty: Some Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future2
Geospatial Science2
Claudia Abatino: Exploitation and Management of Animal Resources During the Middle Iron Age, Northern Limpopo Province, South Africa2
Earth, Water, Air, and Fire – Thinking about Farming and Farmscapes2
Rethinking the Capsian: Lithic Variability Among Holocene Maghreb Hunter-Gatherers2
Alice Stevenson: Egyptian Archaeology and the Twenty-First Century Museum2
Helina S. Woldekiros: The Boundaries of Ancient Trade: Kings, Commoners, and the Aksumite Salt Trade of Ethiopia1
Critique of the “Black Pharaohs” Theme: Racist Perspectives of Egyptian and Kushite/Nubian Interactions in Popular Media1
African Archaeology at the Crossroads1
Households in Transition: Persistence and Change of Dwellings in the City of Old Dongola (Sudan, 14th–17th Century)1
The Age and Graphic Attributes of the First Potteries of the Western Sahara1
“All the world's a stage…”: A Valedictory Note1
The Territory of Ancient Tipasa, Algeria: Archaeological Survey, Material Culture, and Connectivity in Central Maghreb1
Worldwide Research on Australopiths1
Investigating the MIS2 Microlithic Assemblage of Umbeli Belli Rockshelter and Its Place Within the Chrono-cultural Sequence of the LSA Along the East Coast of Southern Africa1
Deciphering Middle Stone Age Technological Behaviors: An Analysis of the Lithic Technology from Level VI-B at Mumba, Tanzania1
Revisiting Kalundu Mound, Zambia: Implications for the Timing of Social and Subsistence Transitions in Iron Age Southern Africa1
Pikunda-Munda and Batalimo-Maluba1
Sustainable Management and Conservation of Heritage Assets: A Case Study of the Lake Eyasi Basin, Northern Tanzania1
School Learning Enriched by Doing: An Apprenticing Model1
The Future of Human Origins and Modern Behavior in Africa1
Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers1
Lotfi Belhouchet: Du Capsien Chasseur au Capsien Pasteur. Pour un Modèle Régional de Néolithisation1
“A Survey of Surveys” Revisited: Current Approaches to Landscape and Surface Archaeology in Southern Africa1
Unveiling Site Visibility: A Study of Farming Communities in the Magaliesberg Region, South Africa1
Historical Archaeology of the Dente Shrine at Peki, Ghana: Landscapes of Power and Memories of Atlantic Slavery in West Africa1
The Role of Different Raw Materials in Lithic Technology and Settlement Patterns During the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa1
A Holocene Ceramic Sequence in the Central Sahara: Pottery Traditions and Social Dynamics Seen from the Takarkori Rockshelter (SW Libya)1
The Future of Heritage Management and Development in Africa1
Phillip L. de Barros: La Métallurgie du Fer en Pays Bassar (Nord-Togo) Depuis 2400 Ans. Tome I: L’Âge du Fer Ancien (de 400 avant J.-C. à 130 après J.-C.)1
Correction to: The 4.2 ka BP Climate Event in Egypt: Integration of Archaeological, Geoarchaeological, and Bioarchaeological Evidence1
Training and Collaboration in African Archaeology0
African Epistemologies and Ontologies: Building a Pathway that Elevates African Ways of Constructing the World as Part of a Future African Archaeology0
A Newly Discovered Acheulean Assemblage in the Mbulu Plateau, Northern Tanzania0
Comment on Schmidt et al., “Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers”0
Igbo-Ukwu Textiles: AMS Dating and Fiber Analysis0
Wild Food: Plants, Fish and Small Animals on the Menu for Early Holocene Populations at al-Khiday, Central Sudan0
Leire Olabarria: Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt: Archaeology and Anthropology in Dialogue0
Mark William Hauser and Julia John Haines: The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean0
Salomé Zurinaga Fernández-Toríbio: España en la Campaña de Salvamento de la UNESCO en Nubia0
Re-assessing Middle Nubian cultural constructs through ceramic petrography0
Nicholas David (1937–2023)0
African Farmers, Not Stone Age Foragers: Reassessment of Human Remains from the Mumbwa Caves, Zambia0
Aspects of Zulu Ceramic Traditions in the Upper and Lower uThukela Basin, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa0
Global Connections and Connected Communities in the African Past: Stories from Cowrie Shells0
Embodying Ethiopia’s Global Golden Age on the Muslim-Christian Frontier: The Allure of Glass Beads0
Wood Charcoal from Border Cave’s Member 1RGBS: Evidence for the Environment and Plant Use During MIS 50
Reconciling Archaeology and Legacy at Gishimangeda Cave, Tanzania0
Prehistoric Rock Art of Jebel Shaqadud, Northwestern Butana (Sudan)0
Lucarelli, Rita, Joshua Aaron Roberson, and Steve Vinson (eds). Ancient Egypt, New Technology: The Present and Future of Computer Visualization, Virtual Reality, and Other Digital Humanities in Egypto0
The Making of Bikini Glass in Bida, Nigeria: Ethnography, Chemical Composition, and Archaeology0
The 4.2 ka BP Climate Event in Egypt: Integration of Archaeological, Geoarchaeological, and Bioarchaeological Evidence0
Contemporaneity of the Typical and Upper Capsian (Northwest African Later Stone Age)0
The Chronology of Kilwa Kisiwani, AD 800–15000
Zooarchaeology of the Middle Stone Age in Magubike Rockshelter, Iringa Region, Tanzania0
Local Ceramics from the Islamic Trade Center of Harlaa, Eastern Ethiopia: Markers of Chronology and Contacts0
Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano and Juan Carlos Sánchez-León: Le Premier Nome du sud de l’Égypte au Moyen Empire, Fouilles de la mission espagnole à Qoubbet el-Haoua (Assouan) 2008–20180
John Kinehan: Namib: The Archaeology of an African Desert0
Mtepe: Documentation and Analysis of a Sewn-Boat Reconstruction from Zanzibar, Tanzania0
Teardrops at the Lake: Chemistry of New Kingdom to Makuria Glass Beads and Pendants Between the First and Second Nile Cataracts0
Preliminary Analysis of Ceramic Styles in Fier, Lankan, and Daffo, Southern Jos Plateau, Central Nigeria0
Spatial Organization and Socio-Economic Differentiation at the Dhar Tichitt Center of Dakhlet el Atrouss I (Southeastern Mauritania)0
Alisa LaGamma (Ed.): Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara0
A Focus on Western Uganda0
Genetics and Archaeology0
David Phillipson: An Illustrious Synthesizer of African Archaeology0
Alexandra C. Kelly: Consuming Ivory: Mercantile Legacies of East Africa and New England0
Production and Use of Ceramics in the First Millennium BC: Jebel Moya, Sudan0
Correction to: Elena A. A. Garcea: The Prehistory of the Sudan0
Ethnoarchaeology0
Crafting Swahili Beads: Exploring a New Glass Bead Assemblage from Northern Zanzibar, Tanzania0
Lydia Wilson Marshall (Ed.): Landscapes of Slavery in Africa0
Noel Lenski and Catherine M. Cameron (Eds.): What Is a Slave Society? The Practice of Slavery in Global Perspective0
The Many Meanings of “Integration”: Some Thoughts on Relating Rock Art and Excavated Archaeology in South Africa0
Gwyn Campbell: Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to Circa 19000
The Current Phyto-Scape and Foodplants of Holley Shelter, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) and Its Potential for Past Foragers0
Networked Farmers, Ancestral Rituals, Regional Marketplaces, and Salt: New Insights into the Complexity of First Millennium BC/AD Farming Societies in West Africa0
Connecting the Dots: Ceramics and the Creation of Foundational Narratives in East African Archaeology0
Sitwe 23, a Complex ESA/MSA Locality in the Northern Luangwa Valley, Zambia0
New Insights on the Palaeo-archaeological Potential of the Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal0
The Ceramic Assemblage of Tse Dura (Indyer Mbakuv) Rockshelter in Benue State, Central Nigeria0
A Life in African Archaeology: Autobiographical Notes0
European Trade in Malawi: The Glass Bead Evidence0
Amanda L. Logan: The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana0
Herman Ogoti Kiriama: The Legacy of Slavery in Coastal Kenya: Memory, Identity, and Heritage0
Seventy Years of Pottery Studies in the Archaeology of Mesolithic and Neolithic Sudan0
Igbo-Ukwu at 50: A Symposium on Recent Archaeological Research and Analysis0
Landscapes of Memory and Power: The Archaeology of a Forgotten Kingdom in Ethiopia0
My Meals Are in the Pots: Making Pots and Meals in Wollega, Southwest Ethiopia0
Review of Archaeological Research in Angola0
Commentary on Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers0
Savino di Lernia and Marina Gallinaro (Eds.): Archaeology of Africa. Potential and Perspectives on Laboratory & Fieldwork Research0
On Food, Pots, Gender, Iron, and Archaeological Theory: Interview with Professor Randi Haaland0
On the Validity of the Capsian and Iberomaurusian Entities (Northwest African Later Stone Age)0
On Hunting and Meat-eating by Middle Stone Age Hominins at Loiyangalani Site in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania0
Holl, A. F. C.: The Mobility Imperative: A Global Evolutionary Perspective of Human Migration0
First Archaeological Excavations Along the Atlantic Ocean Coastline of the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Iron Age Sites at Muanda0
The Possible Time and Region of Host Switches of Ancient Malaria Parasites with Reference to the Pliocene–Quaternary Archaeological Sites in Africa0
The Archaeology of Social Transformation in Rural Zanzibar, Tanzania, from the Eleventh Through Nineteenth Centuries CE0
Lisa K. Sabbahy: Kingship, Power, and Legitimacy in Ancient Egypt: From the Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom0
Barbara Frank: Griot Potters of the Folona: The History of an African Ceramic Tradition0
Francis X. Lwamgira: The History of Kiziba and Its Kings / Historia ya Kiziba na Wafalme Wake0
Multilingualism at the Crossroads of Africa: A Response to Commentaries on “Remaking Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Kansyore and Later Settlers in the Ndali Crater Lakes Region”0
The Politics of Knowledge Production: Training and Practice of Archaeological Science in Africa0
Doing Archaeology in a Turbulent Time0
Evidence of an Eleventh-Century AD Cola Nitida Trade into the Middle Niger Region0
Usable Pasts Forum: UNESCO and Heritage Tourism in Africa0
Elena A. A. Garcea: The Prehistory of the Sudan0
Durability, Context, and Pragmatics in Linguistic Histories0
We Need Social Archaeology to Understand Resilience and Build Usable Pasts0
African Archaeology in Support of School Learning: an Introduction0
Tumuli at Tombos: Innovation, Tradition, and Variability in Nubia during the Early Napatan Period0
Jean-Paul Ossah Mvondo: L’Archéologie: De la restitution de l’histoire à l’émergence de l’Afrique0
Expanding Space and Time at Igbo-Ukwu: Insights from Recent Fieldwork0
Peter Mitchell: African Islands: A Comparative Archaeology0
David Phillipson’s Contribution to the Archaeology of the Northern Horn of Africa0
The 100,000–77,000-Year Old Middle Stone Age Micromammal Sequence from Blombos Cave, South Africa: Local Climatic Stability or a Tale of Predator Bias?0
Troche Julia: Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt: The Old and Middle Kingdoms0
Glass in African Archaeology: A New Methodology Offers New Opportunities0
Andrea Manzo: Ancient Egypt in its African Context: Economic Networks, Social and Cultural Interactions0
Glass Beads from Songo Mnara, Tanzania: Chemical Composition and Evidence for Local Bead Manufacture0
Isotopic Evidence for Socio-economic Dynamics Within the Capital of the Kingdom of Alwa, Sudan0
Transition From Wild to Domesticated Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) Revealed in Ceramic Temper at Three Middle Holocene Sites in Northern Mali0
Science, Not Black Magic: Metal and Glass Production in Africa0
Chumnungwa Glass Beads: New Insights into the Geochemistry, Circulation, and Consumption Patterns of Pre-European Glass Beads in Iron Age Southern Africa, CE 980–16500
A Metallographic Study of Objects and Fragments from the Site of Igbo Isaiah, Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria0
Preserving Heritage Amid War: A Protocol for Recording and Disseminating the Tomb of Djehutyhotep at the Sudan National Museum0
Record-Making, Research, and Removal: Mitigating Impacts on Rock Art in a CRM Context in Southern Africa—the Case of the Metolong Dam, Lesotho0
Searching for the Right Color Palette: Source of Pigments of the Holocene Wadi Sura Paintings, Gilf Kebir, Western Desert (Egypt)0
New Luminescence and Radiocarbon Dates for Kanem-Borno Fired-Brick Elite Sites in Kanem, Chad: Bayesian Chronological Modelling of Settlement Construction0
Abdel Kader Bongo Doyendze: Le Paléolithique du Gabon—Étude des industries pré-historiques du Haut-Ogooué0
Middle Stone Age Bifacial Technology and Pressure Flaking at the MIS 3 Site of Toumboura III, Eastern Senegal0
Ritual and State Making in Precolonial Rwanda0
The Social Implication of a “mixed” Ceramic Assemblage: Understanding the Predynastic Community of Nag el-Qarmila (First Nile Cataract, Egypt) Through Pottery Technology0
Graham Connah: The So Pots of Central Africa: Memories of the Past0
Stéphane Pradines: Historic mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Timbuktu to Zanzibar0
Pikunda-Munda: Disappearance of Pottery Production in the Western Congo Basin at the End of the Early Iron Age0
David Phillipson: A Pan-African Archaeologist0
A Day on the Nile: Living in a Town in Nubia0
Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Agricultural Economy at Ona Adi, Tigrai (Ethiopia): First look at a 1000-Year History0
In Consideration of a Post-Professional Archaeology: Reflections on David W. Phillipson’s Research and Career0
Charles Bonnet: The Black Kingdom of the Nile0
Correction: Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Agricultural Economy at Ona Adi, Tigrai (Ethiopia): First look at a 1000-Year History0
Africa and Its Global Connections0
Revisiting the Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic Transition in the Extreme NW of Africa: The Latest Results of the Chronological Sequence of the Cave of Kaf Taht el-Ghar (Tétouan, Morocco)0
Amarillis Pompei: The Napatan Cylindrical Sheaths. A Catalogue and Analysis of Precious Objects from the Royal Cemetery of Nuri0
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