Eugenia W. Herbert presents African ironworking as an encapsulation of fundamental
beliefs about transformation. With metallurgy as a model, the author extends these beliefs to …

Africa has a vibrant past. It emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and
highly complicated interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising an enormous diversity of …

Judging from a number of recent publications, the long-running debate over the origins of
iron smelting in sub-Saharan Africa has been resolved… in favor of those advocating …

Forest degradation—both past and present—has been a significant research focus of many
disciplines in recent decades, and it is an area in which the multidisciplinarity and long-term …

Ethnoarchaeological research in sub-Saharan Africa began as a distinct study in the late
1960s and early 1970s and developed rather differently in different areas of the continent …

Archaeological research since 1988 in West Africa has focused almost exclusively on the
period since 10,000 BP Significant advances have been made in our understanding of the …

Metalworking places a very high demand on forest resources to provide fuel supplies, and
environmental degradation has been associated with large-scale iron production in sub …

Explaining the presence of cemetery stones with Igbo writing in Amherst County, Virginia,
was the basis for this study. How, when and why did inscriptions called Nsibiri make the …

Metalworking places a very high demand on forest resources to provide fuel supplies, and
environmental degradation has been associated with large-scale iron production in sub …

This thesis examines the materiality and practice of West African indigenous/'traditional'
medicine through an archaeological ethnographic study engaging with contemporary …