East African Archaeology : : Foragers, Potters, Smiths, and Traders / / ed. by Sibel B. Kusimba, Chapurukha M. Kusimba.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
• MitwirkendeR: Chami, Felix,; Kessy, Emanuel T.,; Killick, David,; Kusimba, Chapurukha M.,; Kusimba, Sibel B.,; Mabulla, Audax,; Mapunda, Bertram B. B.,; Mitchell, Peter,; Munene, Karega,; Musiba, Charles,; Robertshaw, Peter,; Wandibba, Simiyu,
• HerausgeberIn: Kusimba, Chapurukha M.,; Kusimba, Sibel B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (226 p.)

The goal of this volume is to impart an appreciation of the many facets of East Africa's cultural and archaeological diversity over the last 2,000 years. It brings together chapters on East African archaeology, many by Africa-born archaeologists who review what is known, present new research, and pinpoint issues of debate and anomaly in the relatively poorly known prehistory of East Africa.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- 1 Comparing Prehistoric and Historic Hunter-Gatherer Mobility in Southern Kenya -- 2 The East African Neolithic: A Historical Perspective -- 3 Archaeological Implications of Hadzabe Forager Land Use in the Eyasi Basin, Tanzania -- 4 Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology: Some Examples from Kenya -- 5 Fipa Iron Technologies and Their Implied Social History -- 6 Early Iron working Communities on the East African Coast: Excavations at Kivinja, Tanzania -- 7 Iron working on the Swahili Coast of Kenya -- 8 Iron Age Settlement Patterns and Economic Change on Zanzibar and Pemba Islands -- 9 Politics, Cattle, and Conservation: Ngorongoro Crater at a Crossroads -- 10 The Origins of the State in East Africa -- 11 East African Archaeology: A Southern African Perspective -- References -- Contributors -- Index