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Title Variability of Late Pleistocene and Holocene microlithic industries in Northern and Eastern Africa : recent interpretations and perspectives / Latifa Sari, Giuseppina Mutri, editors
Published Cham : Springer, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 203 pages) : illustrations
Contents SPECIAL ISSUE -- Diachronic Variation in Microlith Production Systems During the Late Pleistocene, Algeria -- Iberomaurusian Lithic Assemblages at Ifri El Baroud (Northeast Morocco) -- The Early Holocene Lithic Tradition of the Northern Farafra Plateau (TenthNinth Millennia cal BP): Its Significance in the Egyptian Western Desert -- Correction to: The Early Holocene Lithic Tradition of the Northern Farafra Plateau (TenthNinth Millennia cal BP): Its Significance in the Egyptian Western Desert -- Common Cultural Markers in the Bone and Lithic Production of the Upper Capsian: A Comparative Approach -- Backed Pieces and Their Variability in the Later Stone Age of the Horn of Africa -- Jacques Tixier, 19252018 -- The COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives for Reimaging and Reimagining Archaeological Practice -- Archaeology of Two Pandemics and Teranga Aesthetic -- Amy ty lilin-drazaay: Building Archaeological Practice on Principles of Community -- Disease as a Factor in the African Archaeological Record -- Dark Side Archaeology: Climate Change and Mid-Holocene Saharan Pastoral Adaptation -- Managing Epidemics in Ancestral Yoruba Towns and Cities: "Sacred Groves" as Isolation Sites -- Issues Emerging: Thoughts on the Reflective Articles on Coronavirus (COVID-19) and African Archaeology -- Tertia Barnett: An Engraved Landscape: Rock Carvings in the Wadi al-Ajal, Libya -- David M. Witelson: A Painted Ridge: Rock Art and Performance in the Maclear District, Eastern Cape, South Africa -- Sada Mire: Divine Fertility: The Continuity in Transformation of an Ideology of Sacred Kinship in Northeast Africa -- Aribidesi Usman and Toyin Falola: The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present -- Wazi Apoh: Revelations of Domination and Resilience: Unearthing the Buried Past of the Akpini, Akan, Germans, and British at Kpando, Ghana
Summary This book addresses the question of variability in backed bladelet-based technologies. It also examines the role of LSA microlithic industries as adaptive strategies for coping with paleoenvironmental changes in North Africa. The multidisciplinary research activities conducted in caves and open-air sites in North Africa over the past two decades have highlighted the importance of this region for understanding the development of LSA microlithic technologies in Africa. This book, therefore, enriches the debate of origin and the spread of Late Pleistocene microlithic technologies in North Africa and beyond. Previously published as a special issue in the journal: African Archaeological Review "Special Issue: Variability of Late Pleistocene and Holocene Microlithic Industries in Northern and Eastern Africa: Recent Interpretations and Perspectives (pp. 323-470)"
Notes "Previously published in African archaeological review, volume 37, issue 3, September 2020."
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Subject Stone implements -- Africa, North -- History -- To 1500
Stone implements -- Africa, Eastern -- History -- To 1500
Paleolithic period -- Africa, North
Paleolithic period -- Africa, Eastern
Paleolithic period
Stone implements
Eastern Africa
North Africa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Sari, Latifa, editor
Mutri, Giuseppina, editor.
ISBN 9783031182037
3031182030