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SAfA 2006 Calgary 22-26 June
Plenary: Aspects of Integration (6 papers)
GAVUA, Kodzo: Rethinking African archaeology from the inside out
DI LERNIA, Savino: An African Sahara
MERCADER, Julio: Myths and methodologies in rain forest archaeology
SEGOBYE, Alinah: Rethinking public archaeology in Africa: fostering development and maintaining relevance in the 21st century
HUYSECOM, Eric: Reconstructing the African past: from interdisciplinary research to multimedia
McINTOSH, Susan. Open Access for all: Is it time to change the way we publish and teach African archaeology?
STERNER, Judy & Nic David: Mandara International Peace Park: a proposal for eco-cultural tourism and sustainable development in the Mandara Mountains of Northern Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria
Poster Session
ASOMBANG, Raymond, Michèle DELNEUF & Christophe M. MBIDA : Archeologie de sauvetage et implications en recherche et formation : l'exemple du projet de sauvetage archéologique sur l axe routier Bertoua/Garoua-Boulaï
CLIST, Bernard: Coexistences matérielles entre 7.000 et 2.000 bp en Afrique Centrale : une mosaïque culturelle (Industrial overlapping in Central Africa between 7,000 and 2,000 bp: a cultural mosaic)
DELNEUF, Michèle & Nizesete Bienvenu : Archéologie de sauvetage et mise en évidence de nouveaux thèmes de recherche et de développement : l'exemple du projet de sauvetage archéologique sur l'axe Ngaoundéré-Touboro (Cameroun)
JESSE, Friederike & Nadja Poellath: Cattle in the Wadi Howar region, northern Sudan
JUWAYEYI, Yusuf M.: Social stratification in the southern Lake Malawi area during the proto-historic period: evidence from burial sites
LANE, Paul: Landscape Change and Environmental Narratives on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya
NDIEMA, Emmanuel: GIS modeling for Holocene sites, resource distribution and settlement patterns at Koobi Fora and Laikipia, Kenya
OUZMAN, Sven: Magical arts of the raider nation: Korana rock art in central South Africa
SÉBASTIEN, Perret: Archaeometric investigations on the smelting site of Fiko, Mali
RICHARDSON, Andrea : Inference to social organization from architectural energetics: the DGB sites of northern Cameroon
SEITSONEN, Oula: Recent archaeological studies in the northern Lake Manyara Basin, Tanzania
STERNER, Judy & Nic David: Mandara International Peace Park: a proposal for eco-cultural tourism and sustainable development in the Mandara Mountains of Northern Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria
VIVIAN, Brian C.: On Akan ceramics and the state of the Asante
WILSON, Michael C.: Dating of late Pleistocene and Holocene stratigraphic units and landscape changes in the Extreme North province, Cameroon
VOGELSANG, Ralf: Seed grinding or pounding meat: the use of grindstones in northwestern Namibia
1 Archaeologies of Landscape
Chair: Bernard Clist
ROURE, Cara A. & Sally McBrearty: Paleoenvironments and archaeological traces in the Early Middle Pleistocene of the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
GALLAGHER, Daphne E.: Changing landscapes: archaeological survey in southeastern Burkina Faso
DAVID, Nicholas & Judy Sterner: The stone-built DGB sites of northern Cameroon: inference to their production and functions
INSOLL, Timothy: The archaeology of shrines, materiality, and 'nature' amongst the Tallensi, Tongo Hills, northern Ghana
HARROWER, Michael J. & Catherine D'Andrea: Circum-Red Sea farming: a preliminary comparison of ancient agricultural landuse and irrigation in East Africa and Southwest Arabia
POLLARD, Edward J.: Recent coastal archaeology around the Medieval settlements of Kaole and Kilwa, Tanzania.
DAVIES, Mathew I.J.: Outline of an applied archaeology of Pokot and Marakwet agriculture.
DINGALO, Sarah Mantshadi: Recent archaeological research of the Shashe-Limpopo confluence zone: a perspective from eastern Botswana
WELLING, Menno: Playing the game, inscribing the landscape: the archaeology of mancalagames in southern Malawi
2 Trade and exchange as a framework for integration
Chair: Haskel Greenfield
APAAK, Clement A: The salt trade in northern Ethiopia
BELDADOS, Alemseged: The Agordat materials and their implications for early food production and regional contact
MAGNAVITA, Sonja: Contacts between the Niger Bend region and the wider world since Late Roman times: the evidence from Kissi, Burkina Faso
CHAMI, Felix: Rethinking the culture history of the islands, the coast and the hinterland of East Africa
OKA, Rahul C: Local desires, global preferences and cosmopolitan elites in the Indian Ocean economy: comparing the role of Chinese prestige wares in the development of trade between East Africa and South Asia
WOOD, Marilee: The development of a glass bead sequence for southern Africa in the Islamic Period
ROBERTSHAW, Peter T. , Marilee Wood, Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff & Michael D. Glascock: Glass beads of southern Africa and Indian Ocean trading networks
3 Recent advances in Eritrean archaeology: from modern humans to classical civilization
Chair: Peter Schmidt
SCHMIDT, Peter R.: Archaeology in action: making new histories through teaching and research in Eritrea
BEYIN, Amanuel: Paleolithic investigations on the Red Sea Coast of Eritrea
WOLDU, Dawit O.: Inferring Eritrean Later Stone Age from archaeology and paleoenvironments of the Horn
CURTIS, Matthew C.: A crucial time: examining change and complexity in the Northern Horn of Africa during the first millennium BCE
SCHMIDT, Peter R., Matthew Curtis, & Catherine D’Andrea: First millennium BC agricultural economy in the Asmara region
WELDAI, Merih: Animals and dietary practices during the Pre-Aksumite period around Asmara
MEHARI, Asmeret Ghebreigziabiher: Ceramic analysis of Sembel site and future ethnoarchaeological research in Eritrea
TEKA, Zelalem H.: Eritrean archaeology and Eritrean national identity
4 Later Stone Age behavior
Chair: Peter Breunig
BRASS, Michael: Analysing socio-economic and ideological changes in late Holocene Saharan hunter-gatherer and early pastoral societies
GARCEA, Elena A.: Intrasite organization of structures and space at Sai Island, northern Sudan
MITCHELL, Peter: Spatial patterning at a repeatedly occupied hunter-gatherer campsite in Lesotho's highlands
PARSONS, Isabelle: Later Stone Age socio-economic variability in the Northern Cape, South Africa
VAN NIEKERK, Karen L.: The archaeology of fish and fishing: analysis of the Later Stone Age marine fish remains from Blombos cave
PFEIFFER, Susan: Behavioral reconstruction of Holocene foragers provides heritage and anthropological insights
HARRINGTON, Lesley: Reconstructing patterns of physical activity from the skeletal morphology of juvenile Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers
SINCLAIR, Paul, Jan Ekman, Kjel Knutsson, Markku Pyykönen, Goran Possnert, Anneli Ekblom & Jan Risberg: Analysis of finds from the 2005 excavations at Kuumbi Cave on Zanzibar
5 Complexity: In Honor of Peter Shinnie
Chair: Rebecca Bradley
BRADLEY, Rebecca: Peter Shinnie: the first ninety years
EL-ZAIN, Intisar S.: The archaeology of gender: the case of the Sudan
HAALAND, Randi: Meroitic Iron working, politics and ritual
MAGNAVITA, Carlos & Peter Breunig: Mid-first millennium BC fortified settlements near Lake Chad, Nigeria
GRONENBORN, Detlef: The sun, the sultan, his soldiers, and his slaves: solar forcing of the expansion of Islam into West Africa
HAOUR, Anne C. & Gado, Boubé: Capitals of the medieval Sahel: the case of Garumele, Niger (the 2005 season)
DENBOW, James: The “Losé phenomenon” and the ecological, cultural and political dimensions of trade, governance and identity in eastern Botswana: CE 1200-1500
BOEYENS, Jan C.A.: Kaditshwene: a portrait of an early nineteenth-century Tswana capital in the South African interior
6 Archaeobotanical approaches to the study of subsistence and environment
Chair: Catherine D’Andrea
LOGAN, Amanda L. & D.J. Watson: The role of oil palm in Kintampo subsistence
D’ANDREA Catherine, Stefanie Kahlheber, Amanda Logan & Derek Watson : New perspectives on Kintampo subsistence
EICHHORN, Barbara & Katharina Neumann: Archaeobotany and environmental history of Ounjougou, Mali
KAHLHEBER, Stefanie: Archaeobotanical news from the Cameroonian rainforest
WALSHAW, Sarah: Swahili food production: archaeobotany of town and country on Pemba Island, Tanzania, A.D. 600-1500
THANHEISER, Ursula: Subsistence strategies in the early and middle Holocene in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt
7 Life in the Iron Age
Chair: Alinah Segobye
WOTZKA, Hans-Peter: Radiocarbon and the structure of Iron Age settlement in Central Africa and beyond
BRUNNER-ROBION, Caroline, Sébastien Perret, Vincent Serneels, Adama Dembelé & Eric Huysecom: A thousand years of iron metallurgy on the Dogon shield (Mali)
DE BARROS, Philip L.: The surprising Early Iron Age site of Dekpassanware (Togo)
DUEPPEN, Stephen A.: Investigation of an Early Iron-Age village community: the Kirikongo Archaeological Project (Mouhoun Bend, Burkina Faso)
FREDRIKSEN, Per D.: Pottery in household space
CHIRCHIR, Habiba: Cranial and post cranial skeletal comparisons among modern Bantu populations from Central Kenya.
GREENFIELD, Haskel: Colonization, growth, and abandonment of an EIA community: Ndondondwane, South Africa
FOWLER, Kent: Feasting during the Early Iron Age in southeastern Africa
MADIQUIDA, Hilário: Iron Age communities in the Zambezi River Basin: excavations in Mozambique
BIEMOND, Wim M.: The Iron Age sequence around a Limpopo River floodplain on Basinghall farm, Tuli Block, Botswana, during the second millennium AD
8 Approaches to Integration
Chair: Karega-Munene
CUNNINGHAM, Jerimy: Integrating African ethnoarchaeology
ADAMS, William Y: Archaeo-ethnology in Nubia
MAYOR, Anne: Integrating ethnoarchaeological, historical and archaeological data: towards a history of pottery traditions in the Niger Bend
BLENCH, Roger: Reconstructing the subsistence patterns of speakers of proto-Dogon
MCDONALD, Mary M.A.: Kharga Oasis, Egypt: key to timing trans-desert contacts in the mid-Holocene
SMITH, Alexandre L., K. Bostoen, Els Cornelissen, J. Maniacky & B. Janssen: Crossing Borders: an integrated archaeological and linguistic approach to population dynamics in southern central Africa
CLIST, Bernard: Villages through the equatorial rain-forest of Central Africa, a re-evaluation
9 Early and Middle Stone Age … and before
Chair: Alison Brooks
MCBREARTY, Sally: First fossil chimpanzee
WINTON, Victoria S. & Oumarou Idé: Project SAHEL - the research context of a Paleolithic case-study in West Africa
CHAZAN, Michael: Preliminary results of new research on the Earlier Stone Age of Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
BOWER, John R. F.: What is the Middle Stone Age?
MINICHILLO, Tom: Models for an African origin of our species: where are we?
ONJALA, Isaya O.: Emergence of modern human behaviour: what can Middle Stone Age lithic technologies tell us?
KLEINDIENST, Maxine R. , M.M.A. McDonald, M.F. Wiseman, A.L. Hawkins, J.R. Smith, J.M. Kieniewicz & K.A. Adelsberger: Walking in the footsteps of Gertrude Caton-Thompson and Eleanor W. Gardner
MABULLA, Audax Z.P.: The Middle Stone Age of Laetoli, northern Tanzani
10 Transitions
Chair: Tim Insoll
BROOKS, Alison S. & John E. YELLEN: From the Acheulian to the Middle Stone Age: an East Side Story.
RICHARDT, Folke E.: Living on the edge: 250 000 years ago in an arid environment in South Africa
SKALITZ, Julia C.: Rock art meets field archaeology: the Stone Age in the Ennedi Mountains, northeastern Chad.
KEDING, Birgit: Pots, points and pastoralism - the puzzle of the Neolithic - Iron Age transition in the Ennedi Mountains, northeastern Chad. First results of the field campaigns 2004/2005.
GOUEM GOUEM, Bienvenu: Archéologie de la côte méridionale camerounaise. Premiers villages dans la Région du Bas-Nyong
KESSY, Emanuel: The relationship between the Later Stone Age and Iron Age of Central Tanzania
SADR, Karim: Through thick and thin: on early ceramics in southern Africa
GINTER, Jaime K.: A bioarchaeological investigation of the transition from hunting and gathering to pastoralism in the eastern Cape region, South Africa: a case of migration or diffusion?
11 Pastoralism
Chair: Savino di Lernia
SMITH, Andrew B.: Ideological inhibitors to hunters becoming food producers in Africa
CAUSEY, Michael: Using computers in East African archaeology: GIS and the importance of digital data integration with apposite software
ARNOLD, Elizabeth R.: Ethnozooarchaeology in the Mahas region, Sudan
RYAN, Kathleen: Food sharing and nutrition: differential access to food by age and gender in a pastoral society
TAFURI, Mary Anne & Savino di Lernia: Consuming food, embodying places. Dietary and social resources in the Holocene Acacus Mountains (Libyan Sahara)
LINSEELE, Veerle: The origins of nomadic pastoralism in West Africa
WAWERU, Veronica & Cynthia Peterson: The age of the pastoral Neolithic revisited: thermoluminescence dates from Lukenya and the central Rift
SMITH, Jeannette M.: Ethnographic and historical analogies for ancient dryland farming in southern Africa
12 Lithics
Chair: Julio Mercader
LOMBARD, Marlize: Broken stones breaking ground: comparable data on human hunting behaviour based on macro-fracture analysis
SUMNER, Alexandra: Finding depth in the plains of the past: a 3D approach for examining cognitive issues in lithic analysis
PHILLIPSON, Laurel: A functional assessment of Middle Stone Age lithics from Rhino Cave and White Painted rock shelter, Tsodilo Hills, Namibia
WILLOUGHBY, Pamela: Middle and Later Stone Age technology in southern Tanzania
SAMPSON, C. Garth & Dawn Youngblood: Hornfels artifact sourcing by instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) in the Karoo region of South Africa
RAHMANI, Noura: Ochre staining of Capsian lithics: a new hypothesis
KIMURA, Birgitta K.: Knapped glass tools from an excavation in Konso, Southern Ethiopia
13 Historical archaeology
Chair: Gilbert Pwiti
CONNAH, Graham: Historical archaeology in Africa: an appropriate concept?
RICHARD, François G.: From “cosaan” to colony: long-term settlement history and political-economic change in Siin, Senegal, AD 500-1900
USMAN, Aribidesi A.: Urban trajectory and sociopolitical formation on the Yoruba frontier: a report of recent field work at Ila-Iyara, Central Nigeria
OGUNDIRAN, Akin: Osogbo (SW Nigeria) in the seventeenth century: archaeology and historical ethnography of the Osun Grove
FOLORUNSO, Caleb A.: Revisiting Old Oyo: report on an interdisciplinary field study
MEZOP, Temgoua, Alice: Koma Gimbe and Koma Kompana of the Faro region (North-Cameroon): an ethnohistorical and archaeological study
SCHROEDER, Hannes; Kevin Farmer & Robert E.M. Hedges: Reconstructing forgotten life histories: using isotopic analyses in the study of the African diaspora
14 Art and its Contexts
Chair: Randi Haaland
DE MARET, Pierre: Seth : Egyptian chimera or African trickster ?
BREUNIG, Peter & Nicole Rupp: New studies on the cultural context of the Nok Culture of Central Nigeria.
OUZMAN, Sven: Prints and pathways: spoor and southern African rock art
TEFERA, Melaku & Catherine D’Andrea: Analysis of zoomorphic paintings in seven rock shelters in northern Ethiopia
ZUBIETA, Leslie F.: The rock art of girls’ initiation ceremonies in south-central Africa
NHAMO, Ancila and Seke Katsamudanga: Patterns on the landscape: clusters of rock art sites in Zimunya, eastern Zimbabwe
WHITELAW, Gavin: The role of gender in the production of Zulu beer vessels
DEWEY, William J.: Repatriation of a Great Zimbabwe stone bird
15 Issues of identity in the archaeological record
Chairs: Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Sarah Croucher
MACEACHERN, Scott: Where in Africa does Africa start? Archaeology, biology and African Studies across the Sahara
WYNNE-JONES, Stephanie: Beyond class: nested identities in the East African coastal landscape
CROUCHER, Sarah: Archaeological interpretations of gendered identities on nineteenth-century Zanzibar
WEISS, Lindsay: Heritage as viewed by an archaeologist in South Africa: the intersection of market, history and identity
PIKIRAYI, Innocent: Ceramics, cultural process and group identities in southern African archaeology: Have we given up on the meaning?
DELNEUF, Michèle: Critères céramiques d’attributions culturelles en Afrique centrale (régions forestières et de contact forêt-savanye). Quelques propositions d’analyses trans-régionales.
16 The Archaeology of Imperialism
Chair: Innocent Pikirayi
POSNANSKY, Merrick: Imperial Archaeology: prospects and realities
APOH, Wazi R.: The Akpinis and their encounters with dual colonialism: archaeological insights into German and British colonial overrule at Kpando, Volta region, Ghana
CHALLIS, William R.: Bushmen of a new order: the formation of a horse nation amongst the people of the south-eastern mountains of nineteenth-century southern Africa
ESTERHUYSEN, Amanda B.: The siege of Makapan: a third narrative
17 Public archaeology – communicating archaeology
Chair: Diane Lyons
MCINTOSH, Susan: Open access for all: is it time to change the way we publish and teach African archaeology?
KAREGA-MUNENE: From House of the Dead to House of the Living: making museum exhibits relevant to the general public in the 21st century
FOGELMAN, Arianna, & Julio MERCADER; (Stone) tools for development: making Stone Age archaeology matter
OKORO, John Ako: An analysis of the functional dynamics of the landmarks, images and artefacts of enslavement in Salaga
PWITI, Gilbert, Ancila Nhamo, Seke Katsamudanga & Alinah Segobye: Makasva: archaeology and rainmaking in Zimunya communal lands, eastern Zimbabwe