From two of the best-known archaeological writers in the trade, this outstanding resource
provides a thorough survey of the key ideas in archaeology, and how they impact on …

Public spaces have been long recognized as integral parts of urban settings, often granted
importance by the public ceremonies and spectacles that they hosted. Interpretations of such …

The identity and history of the Swahili-speaking peoples of the East African coast have long
been contentious, and they continue to be so today. This is partly a function of the politics of …

A Material Culture focuses on objects in Swahili society through the elaboration of an
approach that sees both people and things as caught up in webs of mutual interaction. It …

Houses are an important subject of archaeological research, normally explored through the
households they contain. This has established a deliberately social agenda for the …

In this article, we respond to an article by Jeffrey Fleisher et al.(2015) in which they pose the
question: When did the Swahili become maritime? We draw from our research findings in …

Studies of liminality have a long history in anthropology. In archaeology, identifying past
people-rather than faceless entities-through material culture is still a work in progress, but a …

The Swahili are arguably the most studied society in ancient Sub-Saharan Africa. The
Swahili are of African in origin but balance their character between continental Africa and …

Archaeologists are interested in understanding whether cross-cultural contact catalyzed by
exchange of commodities is a means for people to acquire new technology and cultural …

Magnetometry and Slingram electromagnetic surveys were conducted at the UNESCO
World Heritage Site of Songo Mnara, Tanzania, as part of a multinational programme of …