Browsing Research Articles (Anthropology and Archaeology) by Type "Postprint Article"

Browsing Research Articles (Anthropology and Archaeology) by Type "Postprint Article"

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  • The Acheulean in South Africa, with announcement of a new site (Penhill Farm) in the lower Sundays River Valley, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa 
    Lotter, Matt Geoffrey; Kuman, Kathleen (Elsevier, 2017-10)
    Our understanding of the South African Acheulean is heavily biased towards sites located in the interior of the country, namely in the Cradle of Humankind and those located along the Vaal and Orange Rivers. Although these ...
  • The anthropology of money and finance : between ethnography and world history 
    Hart, Keith; Ortiz, Horacio (Annual Reviews, 2014)
    We review here recent developments in the anthropology of money and finance, listing its achievements, shortcomings and prospects, while referring back to the discipline‘s founders a century ago. We take our departure ...
  • Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use 
    Stephens, Lucas; Fuller, Dorian; Boivin, Nicole; Rick, Torben; Gauthier, Nicolas; Kay, Andrea; Marwick, Ben; Armstrong, Chelsey Geralda; Barton, C. Michael; Denham, Tim; Douglass, Kristina; Driver, Jonathan; Janz, Lisa; Roberts, Patrick; Rogers, J. Daniel; Thakar, Heather; Altaweel, Mark; Johnson, Amber L.; Vattuone, Maria Marta Sampietro; Aldenderfer, Mark; Archila, Sonia; Artioli, Gilberto; Bale, Martin T.; Beach, Timothy; Borrell, Ferran; Braje, Todd; Buckland, Philip I.; Cano, Nayeli Guadalupe Jiménez; Capriles, Jose M.; Castillo, Agustin Diez; Cilingiroglu, Ciler; Cleary, Michelle Negus; Conolly, James; Coutros, Peter R.; Covey, R. Alan; Cremaschi, Mauro; Crowther, Alison; Der, Lindsay; Di Lernia, Savino; Doershuk, John F.; Doolittle, William E.; Edwards, Kevin J.; Erlandson, Jon M.; Evans, Damian; Fairbairn, Andrew; Faulkner, Patrick; Feinman, Gary; Fernandes, Ricardo; Fitzpatrick, Scott M.; Fyfe, Ralph; Garcea, Elena; Goldstein, Steve; Goodman, Reed Charles; Guedes, Jade Dalpoim; Herrmann, Jason; Hiscock, Peter; Hommel, Peter; Horsburgh, K. Ann; Hritz, Carrie; Ives, John W.; Junno, Aripekka; Kahn, Jennifer G.; Kaufman, Brett; Kearns, Catherine; Kidder, Tristram R.; Lanoe, Francois; Lawrence, Dan; Lee, Gyoung-Ah; Levin, Maureece J.; Lindskoug, Henrik B.; Lopez-Saez, Jose Antonio; Macrae, Scott; Marchant, Rob; Marston, John M.; McClure, Sarah; McCoy, Mark D.; Miller, Alicia Ventresca; Morrison, Michael; Matuzeviciute, Giedre Motuzaite; Muller, Johannes; Nayak, Ayushi; Noerwidi, Sofwan; Peres, Tanya M.; Peterson, Christian E.; Proctor, Lucas; Randall, Asa R.; Renette, Steve; Schug, Gwen Robbins; Ryzewski, Krysta; Saini, Rakesh; Scheinsohn, Vivian; Schmidt, Peter R.; Sebillaud, Pauline; Seitsonen, Oula; Simpson, Ian A.; Soltysiak, Arkadiusz; Speakman, Robert J.; Spengler, Robert N.; Steffen, Martina L.; Storozum, Michael J.; Strickland, Keir M.; Thompson, Jessica; Thurston, T.L.; Ulm, Sean; Ustunkaya, M. Cemre; Welker, Martin H.; West, Catherine; Williams, Patrick Ryan; Wright, David K.; Wright, Nathan; Zahir, Muhammad; Zerboni, Andrea; Beaudoin, Ella; Garcia, Santiago Munevar; Powell, Jeremy; Thornton, Alexa; Kaplan, Jed O.; Gaillard, Marie-Jose; Goldewijk, Kees Klein; Ellis, Erle (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019-08)
    Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and implications of these early changes are not well understood. An empirical global assessment ...
  • Archaeological ceramics from eastern Africa : past approaches and future directions 
    Ashley, Ceri Z.; Grillo, Katherine M. (Routledge, 2015-04)
    Ceramics are an essential part of the Holocene archaeology of eastern Africa and the development of increasingly complex typologies has rightly played a key role in our understanding of chronology and social identity. ...
  • An archaeological identity of the Majimaji : toward an historical archaeology of resistance to German colonization in southern Tanzania 
    Rushohora, N.A. (Nancy) (Springer, 2015-08)
    This paper presents new insights on the Majimaji war, which is one of the least studied topics in Eastern Africa’s colonial history. The Majimaji (1905– 1907) was a large scale war of resistance against German colonial ...
  • Authenticity lost? The significance of cultural villages in the conservation of heritage in South Africa 
    Boonzaaier, C.C. (Chris); Wels, Harry (Routledge, 2018)
    Based on a(n) (interrupted) period of 15 years of fieldwork, this study explores the question whether cultural villages in South Africa are to be considered an effective way to conserve a particular cultural heritage in ...
  • Belief and acceptance for the study of religion 
    Bae, Bosco B. (Brill Academic Publishers, 2017-01)
    „Belief‟ in the study of religion has been vexed by complexities underlying the relationship between language, cognition, and religious behavior. Drawing on anthropological, sociological, and psychological literature, ...
  • A broken link : two generations in a rural household in Massinga district, southern Mozambique 
    Farre, Albert (Routledge, 2013-09)
    Labour migration has long been a recurrent topic in southern Africa, owing to the appearance of industrialised mining production in the mid-nineteenth century, and its overall effects on land and agriculture. In Mozambique, ...
  • Care, contagion and the good mother : narratives of motherhood, tuberculosis and healing 
    Majombozi, Ziyanda (Routledge, 2019)
    South Africa is reported as one of the countries with a high burden of tuberculosis (TB). In response to the epidemic, the country’s national Department of Health attempted to improve access to health care and TB treatment ...
  • Casting foragers into a new mould? The case of the Mafunyane Shelter, eastern Botswana 
    Forssman, Tim (Antiquity Publications, 2015-06)
    The final two millennia of southern Africa’s Later Stone Age saw considerable shifts in subsistence, settlement and production patterns. Much of these changes coincided with the arrival of agriculturalists bringing crops, ...
  • Ceramics, ethnohistory, and ethnography : locating meaning in southern African iron age ceramic assemblages 
    Pikirayi, Innocent; Lindahl, Anders (Springer, 2013-12)
    For ceramics to be relevant in the Southern African Iron Age, archaeologists must broaden their theoretical base to include social and other contexts when interpreting material culture items such as pottery. Pottery ...
  • Characterization of the corrosion layer on iron archaeological artefacts from K2 (825-1220 AD), an archaeological site in South Africa 
    Koleini, Farahnaz; Prinsloo, Linda Charlotta; Schoeman, M.H. Alex; Pikirayi, Innocent; Chirikure, Shadreck (Maney Publishing, 2013)
    A study of the composition and phase distribution of the corrosion layers on three ferrous objects, excavated at K2 (Bambandyanalo), an archaeological site in South Africa, was conducted. The objective of the study was ...
  • The chronology of Insiza cluster Khami-phase sites in south-western Zimbabwe : compositional insights from pXRF and Raman analysis of excavated exotic glass finds 
    Koleini, Farahnaz; Machiridza, L.H.; Pikirayi, Innocent; Colomban, P. (Wiley, 2019-08)
    Fourteen glass beads and one glass fragment from Khami‐period (ad 1400–1830) sites of Danamombe, Naletale, Gomoremhiko, Nharire and Zinjanja, in Zimbabwe, were analysed by pXRF and Raman spectroscopy with the intention of ...
  • Climate, environment and migration : experiences of migrants in South Africa 
    Jilesen, Robin P.; Wegerif, M.C.A. (Marc) (Brill Academic Publishers, 2023-11)
    This article examines the impacts of climate- and environment-related adversity on migration from other sub-Saharan African countries to the prominent migration destination of South Africa. It describes factors and processes ...
  • Conservation of the Mapungubwe gold collection 
    Tiley-Nel, Sian; Botha, Hazel (Routledge, 2013-03)
    The basic objective of this article is to elucidate the conservation of the African Iron Age Mapungubwe gold collection from South Africa which is curated by the University of Pretoria. This nationally significant ...
  • Contract archaeology in South Africa : some ethical concerns 
    Ndlovu, Ndukuyakhe (Routledge, 2014)
    While contract archaeology has played a significant role in South Africa, a number of ethical concerns have become evident over the years. How enabling are the legal frameworks to contract archaeologists? Whose interest ...
  • A conversation with Peter Ridgway Schmidt, the Sango of African archaeology 
    Kusimba, Chapurukha M.; Pikirayi, Innocent (Springer, 2020-06)
  • Cooperative modulations : the antimafia movement and struggles over land and cooperativism in eight Sicilian municipalities 
    Rakopoulos, Theodoros (Routledge, 2014)
    Debate on the antimafia movement has placed the phenomenon mainly in the urban civil society tradition of new Italian social movements. While acknowledging the resonance of antimafia mobilization in this context, this ...
  • Crisis of political leadership in Zimbabwe 
    Chipere, Mike (Routledge, 2020)
    Zimbabwe faces the deepest crisis of its time. The three main impediments to getting out of the crisis are, first, the current kleptocratic and dictatorial rule of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ZANU–PF party; second, ...
  • The crisis seen from below, within, and against : from solidarity economy to food distribution cooperatives in Greece 
    Rakopoulos, Theodoros (Springer, 2014-06)
    Anthropological literature on crises and social and solidarity economies can benefit from integrated approaches that assess grassroots cooperatives formed during critical periods of capitalist recession. This article ...