This volume contains eleven papers, the vast majority of which present the results of recent excavations and field work in Ghana. Timothy Insoll's opening paper analyses the perspectives of current archaeologists at the University of Ghana on how they see their department and discipline within the university and country and how they see the future of the discipline.
This volume contains eleven papers, the vast majority of which present the results of recent excavations and field work in Ghana. Timothy Insoll's ope...
Packed full of beautiful illustrations and written in a lively style, this serves as an excellent guide to Bahrain's eventful past, a result of its location at an international crossroad, to the history of archaeological research in the country, and to its major sites. Detailed coverage is given to the ancient capital of Dilmun at Qala'at al-Bahrain, the temple complex at Barbar, the innumerable burial mounds which characterise the islands's archaeology, the early Dilmun village of Saar and the early mosque of Al-Khamis.
Packed full of beautiful illustrations and written in a lively style, this serves as an excellent guide to Bahrain's eventful past, a result of its lo...
How people engaged with materials such as clay or stone, why people dug features such as pits, why they decorated their bodies, or treated their dead in certain ways, were all meaningful in the African past. However, these are subjects that have been generally neglected by archaeologists working in Africa until recently. Material Explorations in African Archaeology examines materiality in African archaeology by exploring concepts of material agency and material engagement and entanglement in relation to their manifest presence in persons, animals, objects, substances, and contexts....
How people engaged with materials such as clay or stone, why people dug features such as pits, why they decorated their bodies, or treated their dead ...
Figurines dating from prehistory have been found across the world but have never before been considered globally. The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines is the first book to offer a comparative survey of this kind, bringing together approaches from across the landscape of contemporary research into a definitive resource in the field. The volume is comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible, with dedicated and fully illustrated chapters covering figurines from the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia and the Pacific laid out by geographical location and written...
Figurines dating from prehistory have been found across the world but have never before been considered globally. The Oxford Handbook of Prehistor...