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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Transition From Wild to Domesticated Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) Revealed in Ceramic Temper at Three Middle Holocene Sites in Northern Mali27
Variability of Early Iron Production in the Falémé Valley Region, Eastern Senegal12
New Excavations at Umhlatuzana Rockshelter, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a Stratigraphic and Taphonomic Evaluation12
Amy ty lilin-draza’ay: Building Archaeological Practice on Principles of Community12
Middle Stone Age Bifacial Technology and Pressure Flaking at the MIS 3 Site of Toumboura III, Eastern Senegal10
Usable Pasts Forum: UNESCO and Heritage Tourism in Africa10
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives for Reimaging and Reimagining Archaeological Practice9
Wood Charcoal from Border Cave’s Member 1RGBS: Evidence for the Environment and Plant Use During MIS 59
Review of Archaeological Research in Angola8
Archaeological Ochres of the Rock Art Site of Leopard Cave (Erongo, Namibia): Looking for Later Stone Age Sociocultural Behaviors8
An Evolutionary Approach to the History of Barley (Hordeum vulgare) Cultivation in the Canary Islands8
Revisiting Kalundu Mound, Zambia: Implications for the Timing of Social and Subsistence Transitions in Iron Age Southern Africa7
The Politics of Knowledge Production: Training and Practice of Archaeological Science in Africa7
Backed Pieces and Their Variability in the Later Stone Age of the Horn of Africa7
Use-Wear Analysis Brings “Vanished Technologies” to Light7
The Role of Different Raw Materials in Lithic Technology and Settlement Patterns During the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa6
African Farmers, Not Stone Age Foragers: Reassessment of Human Remains from the Mumbwa Caves, Zambia5
Evidence of an Eleventh-Century AD Cola Nitida Trade into the Middle Niger Region5
Networked Farmers, Ancestral Rituals, Regional Marketplaces, and Salt: New Insights into the Complexity of First Millennium BC/AD Farming Societies in West Africa5
Spatial Organization and Socio-Economic Differentiation at the Dhar Tichitt Center of Dakhlet el Atrouss I (Southeastern Mauritania)5
Enset (Ensete ventricosum) and the Archaeology of Southwestern Ethiopia5
The 4.2 ka BP Climate Event in Egypt: Integration of Archaeological, Geoarchaeological, and Bioarchaeological Evidence4
Taking Stock of Foodplants Growing in the Cradle of Humankind Fossil Hominin Site, South Africa4
Food and Ornament: Use of Shellfish at Ifri Oudadane, a Holocene Settlement in NE Morocco4
Teardrops at the Lake: Chemistry of New Kingdom to Makuria Glass Beads and Pendants Between the First and Second Nile Cataracts4
Milling Cereals/Legumes and Stamping Bread in Mauretanian Tamuda (Morocco): An Interdisciplinary Study4
Fourteen Years of Archaeological and Heritage Research in the Iringa Region, Tanzania4
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)4
Characterization of Glass, Shell, and Fishbone Beads on Ibo Island (Northern Mozambique) in the Context of the Indian Ocean Trade4
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?4
The Chronology of Kilwa Kisiwani, AD 800–15004
Doing Archaeology in a Turbulent Time3
Issues Emerging: Thoughts on the Reflective Articles on Coronavirus (COVID-19) and African Archaeology3
Wild Food: Plants, Fish and Small Animals on the Menu for Early Holocene Populations at al-Khiday, Central Sudan3
Sustainable Management and Conservation of Heritage Assets: A Case Study of the Lake Eyasi Basin, Northern Tanzania3
Forests of History: Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeological Survey in Southern Ghana3
Disease as a Factor in the African Archaeological Record3
The African Archaeological Review Turns Forty: Some Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future3
A Conversation with Peter Ridgway Schmidt, the Ṣango of African Archaeology3
Re-assessing Middle Nubian cultural constructs through ceramic petrography3
Crafting Swahili Beads: Exploring a New Glass Bead Assemblage from Northern Zanzibar, Tanzania3
On COVID-19 and Matters Arising3
Local Ceramics from the Islamic Trade Center of Harlaa, Eastern Ethiopia: Markers of Chronology and Contacts2
On Food, Pots, Gender, Iron, and Archaeological Theory: Interview with Professor Randi Haaland2
Searching for the Right Color Palette: Source of Pigments of the Holocene Wadi Sura Paintings, Gilf Kebir, Western Desert (Egypt)2
Zooarchaeology of the Middle Stone Age in Magubike Rockshelter, Iringa Region, Tanzania2
Archaeology of Two Pandemics and Teranga Aesthetic2
New Insights on the Palaeo-archaeological Potential of the Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal2
Ritual and State Making in Precolonial Rwanda2
Production and Use of Ceramics in the First Millennium BC: Jebel Moya, Sudan2
Glass Beads from Songo Mnara, Tanzania: Chemical Composition and Evidence for Local Bead Manufacture2
The Oudierin Drainage Archaeological Project: New Perspectives on the Saloum Delta Shell Middens (Senegal)2
Seventy Years of Pottery Studies in the Archaeology of Mesolithic and Neolithic Sudan2
Cooking, Serving, and Storage: Ceramic Vessel Function and Use Contexts at Schroda2
Igbo-Ukwu at 50: A Symposium on Recent Archaeological Research and Analysis2
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 Africa2
“A Survey of Surveys” Revisited: Current Approaches to Landscape and Surface Archaeology in Southern Africa2
Record-Making, Research, and Removal: Mitigating Impacts on Rock Art in a CRM Context in Southern Africa—the Case of the Metolong Dam, Lesotho1
My Meals Are in the Pots: Making Pots and Meals in Wollega, Southwest Ethiopia1
Tumuli at Tombos: Innovation, Tradition, and Variability in Nubia during the Early Napatan Period1
African Epistemologies and Ontologies: Building a Pathway that Elevates African Ways of Constructing the World as Part of a Future African Archaeology1
Savino di Lernia and Marina Gallinaro (Eds.): Archaeology of Africa. Potential and Perspectives on Laboratory & Fieldwork Research1
A Life in African Archaeology: Autobiographical Notes1
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 furthe1
Interdisciplinary Research into the Legacy of the Medieval Metropolis of Soba in a Modern Khartoum Suburb1
Managing Epidemics in Ancestral Yorùbá Towns and Cities: “Sacred Groves” as Isolation Sites1
Expanding Space and Time at Igbo-Ukwu: Insights from Recent Fieldwork1
The Archaeology of Social Transformation in Rural Zanzibar, Tanzania, from the Eleventh Through Nineteenth Centuries CE1
Reconciling Archaeology and Legacy at Gishimangeda Cave, Tanzania1
Embodying Ethiopia’s Global Golden Age on the Muslim-Christian Frontier: The Allure of Glass Beads1
Common Cultural Markers in the Bone and Lithic Production of the Upper Capsian: A Comparative Approach1
The Evolution of Lower Egyptian Culture During the Formative Stages of the Egyptian State at Tell el-Iswid: The Contribution of Ceramic Technology1
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)1
Aspects of Zulu Ceramic Traditions in the Upper and Lower uThukela Basin, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa1
European Trade in Malawi: The Glass Bead Evidence1
Igbo-Ukwu Textiles: AMS Dating and Fiber Analysis1
Genetics and Archaeology1
The Ceramic Assemblage of Tse Dura (Indyer Mbakuv) Rockshelter in Benue State, Central Nigeria1
African Archaeology in Support of School Learning: an Introduction1
Later Stone Age Occupation on Iresi Hills: A New Dated Context in Southwest Nigeria1
How African Pasts Can Inspire Alternative Responses to Climate Change: a Creative Writing Experiment1
Andrea Manzo: Ancient Egypt in its African Context: Economic Networks, Social and Cultural Interactions0
Connecting the Dots: Ceramics and the Creation of Foundational Narratives in East African Archaeology0
Geospatial Science0
Giuseppina Mutri: Technological Styles in the Jebel Gharbi Lithic Industries of the Late Pleistocene (North-Western Libya)0
A Metallographic Study of Objects and Fragments from the Site of Igbo Isaiah, Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria0
Correction to: The Early Holocene Lithic Tradition of the Northern Farafra Plateau (Tenth–Ninth Millennia cal BP): Its Significance in the Egyptian Western Desert0
A Contextual Reintegration of Shaw’s 1959–1964 Igbo-Ukwu Excavation Sites and Their Material Culture0
Shadreck Chirikure: Great Zimbabwe: Reclaiming a “Confiscated” Past0
The Early Holocene Lithic Tradition of the Northern Farafra Plateau (Tenth–Ninth Millennia cal BP): Its Significance in the Egyptian Western Desert0
Graham Connah: The So Pots of Central Africa: Memories of the Past0
We Need Social Archaeology to Understand Resilience and Build Usable Pasts0
Correction to: The 4.2 ka BP Climate Event in Egypt: Integration of Archaeological, Geoarchaeological, and Bioarchaeological Evidence0
Sally C. Reynolds & René Bobe (Eds.): African Paleoecology and Human Evolution0
The Urban Biography of a Mauritanian City: Microstratigraphic Analysis of the Eastern Quarter of Tamuda (Morocco)0
Amarillis Pompei: The Napatan Cylindrical Sheaths. A Catalogue and Analysis of Precious Objects from the Royal Cemetery of Nuri0
Webber Ndoro, Shadreck Chirikure, and Jeanette Deacon: Managing Heritage in Africa. Who Cares?0
School Learning Enriched by Doing: An Apprenticing Model0
Prehistoric Rock Art of Jebel Shaqadud, Northwestern Butana (Sudan)0
David Edwards (Ed.): The Archaeological Survey of Sudanese Nubia, 1963–69: The Pharaonic Sites0
In Consideration of a Post-Professional Archaeology: Reflections on David W. Phillipson’s Research and Career0
The Many Meanings of “Integration”: Some Thoughts on Relating Rock Art and Excavated Archaeology in South Africa0
Jacques Tixier, 1925–20180
African Archaeologists Honored at the Fourth Shanghai Archaeology Forum, December 20190
Lotfi Belhouchet: Du Capsien Chasseur au Capsien Pasteur. Pour un Modèle Régional de Néolithisation0
Geoffroy Heimlich (Ed.): Art Rupestre et Patrimoine Mondial en Afrique Subsaharienne0
Correction to: Elena A. A. Garcea: The Prehistory of the Sudan0
Durability, Context, and Pragmatics in Linguistic Histories0
The Future of Heritage Management and Development in Africa0
Lisa K. Sabbahy: Kingship, Power, and Legitimacy in Ancient Egypt: From the Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom0
Africa and Its Global Connections0
Jean-Paul Ossah Mvondo: L’Archéologie: De la restitution de l’histoire à l’émergence de l’Afrique0
African Museums, Archaeology, and Praxis0
Elena A. A. Garcea: The Prehistory of the Sudan0
Glass in African Archaeology: A New Methodology Offers New Opportunities0
Akshay Sarathi (Ed.): Early Maritime Cultures in East African and the Western Indian Ocean0
The Tichitt Culture and the Malian Lakes Region0
A Day on the Nile: Living in a Town in Nubia0
Alisa LaGamma (Ed.): Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara0
African Archaeology at the Crossroads0
Why Weaving? Teaching Heritage, Mathematics, Science and the Self0
John Kinehan: Namib: The Archaeology of an African Desert0
David M. Witelson: A Painted Ridge: Rock Art and Performance in the Maclear District, Eastern Cape, South Africa0
Material Science and the Present and Future of African Archaeology0
Kom W and Z Basin: Surface Artifact Collection, Culture History, and the Argument Over Village Occupation0
Andrew Smith: First People: The Lost History of the Khoisan0
Barbara Frank: Griot Potters of the Folona: The History of an African Ceramic Tradition0
Leire Olabarria: Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt: Archaeology and Anthropology in Dialogue0
Chapurukha M. Kusimba, Tiequan Zhu, Purity Wakabari Kiura (Eds.): China and East Africa: Ancient Ties and Contemporary Flows0
Sada Mire: Divine Fertility: The Continuity in Transformation of an Ideology of Sacred Kinship in Northeast Africa0
The Ash Heaps of Kweneng, South Africa0
The Making of Bikini Glass in Bida, Nigeria: Ethnography, Chemical Composition, and Archaeology0
Chris Naunton: Egyptologists’ Notebooks0
Some Thoughts on Glass in African Archaeology: An Introduction0
Lydia Wilson Marshall (Ed.): Landscapes of Slavery in Africa0
Earth, Water, Air, and Fire – Thinking about Farming and Farmscapes0
Akinwumi Ogundiran: The Yorùbá: A New History0
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.)0
Yusuf M. Juwayeyi: Archaeology and Oral Traditions in Malawi0
David Phillipson’s Contribution to the Archaeology of the Northern Horn of Africa0
Science, Not Black Magic: Metal and Glass Production in Africa0
Critique of the “Black Pharaohs” Theme: Racist Perspectives of Egyptian and Kushite/Nubian Interactions in Popular Media0
Alexandra C. Kelly: Consuming Ivory: Mercantile Legacies of East Africa and New England0
Mtepe: Documentation and Analysis of a Sewn-Boat Reconstruction from Zanzibar, Tanzania0
A Holocene Ceramic Sequence in the Central Sahara: Pottery Traditions and Social Dynamics Seen from the Takarkori Rockshelter (SW Libya)0
New Light on the Silent Millennia: Mediterranean Africa, ca. 4000–900 BC0
John J. Shea: Prehistoric Stone Tools of Eastern Africa: A Guide0
Stéphane Pradines: Historic mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Timbuktu to Zanzibar0
The Future of Human Origins and Modern Behavior in Africa0
John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu (Ed.): Forts, Castles and Society in West Africa: Gold Coast and Dahomey, 1450–19600
Peter R. Schmidt, and Alice B. Kehoe (Eds.): Archaeologies of Listening0
Manuel Gutierrez and Maria Helena Benjamim (Eds.): Recherches archéologiques à Baia Farta (Benguela-Angola) / Pesquisas arqueológicas na Baia Farta (Benguela-Angola)0
The Future of African Archaeology—The 2023 Perspectives0
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
Pikunda-Munda and Batalimo-Maluba0
Solange Ashby: Calling Out to Isis: The Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae0
Global Connections and Connected Communities in the African Past: Stories from Cowrie Shells0
Tertia Barnett: An Engraved Landscape: Rock Carvings in the Wadi al-Ajal, Libya0
Alice Stevenson: Egyptian Archaeology and the Twenty-First Century Museum0
Communities and the Dead in Africa and Ancient Ethiopia (50–800 CE)0
Abdel Kader Bongo Doyendze: Le Paléolithique du Gabon—Étude des industries pré-historiques du Haut-Ogooué0
Aribidesi Usman and Toyin Falola: The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present0
Rethinking the Capsian: Lithic Variability Among Holocene Maghreb Hunter-Gatherers0
Social and Cultural Dynamics in North Africa During the Holocene: An Introduction0
Abubakar Sule Sani: Imprints of the Archaeology of Northern Nigeria: Landscape, society and crafts around Kirfi, Bauchi region0
Nicholas David (1937–2023)0
Gwyn Campbell: Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to Circa 19000
Martin Williams: The Nile Basin: Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology and Prehistoric Environments0
Jacques Aymeric Nsangou: Les fortifications endogènes au Sénégal Oriental (17ème – 19ème siècle)0
John W. Arthur: Beer: A Global Journey Through the Past and Present0
Amanda L. Logan: The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana0
Dark Side Archaeology: Climate Change and Mid-Holocene Saharan Pastoral Adaptation0
Storytelling in Archaeology and the Quest for a Pedagogy of Renewal0
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
Claudia Abatino: Exploitation and Management of Animal Resources During the Middle Iron Age, Northern Limpopo Province, South Africa0
Landscapes of Memory and Power: The Archaeology of a Forgotten Kingdom in Ethiopia0
SPECIAL ISSUE0
David Phillipson: A Pan-African Archaeologist0
Peter Mitchell: African Islands: A Comparative Archaeology0
Wazi Apoh: Revelations of Domination and Resilience: Unearthing the Buried Past of the Akpini, Akan, Germans, and British at Kpando, Ghana0
Francis X. Lwamgira: The History of Kiziba and Its Kings / Historia ya Kiziba na Wafalme Wake0
Training and Collaboration in African Archaeology0
The Territory of Ancient Tipasa, Algeria: Archaeological Survey, Material Culture, and Connectivity in Central Maghreb0
Chicumbane Connections: Lower Limpopo Valley During the First Millennium AD0
David Phillipson: An Illustrious Synthesizer of African Archaeology0
Ethnoarchaeology0
“All the world's a stage…”: A Valedictory Note0
Charles Bonnet: The Black Kingdom of the Nile0
Noel Lenski and Catherine M. Cameron (Eds.): What Is a Slave Society? The Practice of Slavery in Global Perspective0
A Newly Discovered Acheulean Assemblage in the Mbulu Plateau, Northern Tanzania0
Patterns of Violence in the Pre-Neolithic Nile Valley0
Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Agricultural Economy at Ona Adi, Tigrai (Ethiopia): First look at a 1000-Year History0
Salomé Zurinaga Fernández-Toríbio: España en la Campaña de Salvamento de la UNESCO en Nubia0
Historical Archaeology of the Dente Shrine at Peki, Ghana: Landscapes of Power and Memories of Atlantic Slavery in West Africa0
Dola Angèle Aguigah: Archéologie et Architecture Traditionelle en Afrique de l’Ouest0
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