The continent of Africa is recognized as the place where humankind originated and evolved over millennia. From famous ancestors like Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis remains unearthed in Ethiopia ...

IT IS less than three quarters of a century since Europe’s Congress of Berlin agreed upon a colonial share-out in Africa that was intended to be long enduring, if not permanent. It is less than half a ...

Heritage is a public good, and it surrounds us in South Africa – it’s in the hills, caves, under earth and in our backyards.

Sites and artifacts are revealing clues to the continent’s recent history. An archaeologist explains the findings and threats to this heritage Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine Big gaps exist in the ...

Every so often, a pandemic emerges that dramatically alters human society. The Black Death (1347 - 1351) was one; the Spanish flu of 1918 was another. Now there’s COVID-19. Archaeologists have long ...

This handbook showcases an Africa-wide compendium of Stone Age archaeological sites and methodological advances that have improved our understanding of hominin lifeways and biogeography in the ...

African archaeology has primarily been concerned with precolonial Africa. Consequently, the archaeology of colonial and postcolonial Africa has been neglected, in spite of the fundamental importance ...

MOROGORO: TANZANIA has declared seven sites linked to Africa’s liberation history, along with archaeological reserves, as ...

The Journal of African History, Vol. 32, No. 1 (1991), pp. 3-24 (22 pages) This review is a further development in the Journal of African History series of archaeological surveys away from the earlier ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The South African Archaeological Bulletin is the longest established archaeological journal in sub-Saharan Africa, it contains the ...

JENA, GERMANY—Jennifer Miller of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and Elizabeth Sawchuk of Stony Brook University tested the idea that the size of beads made from ostrich ...