African islands : a comparative archaeology /
"African Islands provides the first geographically and chronologically comprehensive overview of the archaeology of African islands. This book draws archaeologically informed histories of African islands into a single synthesis, focused on multiple issues of common interest, among them human im...
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| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2022
London ; New York, NY : 2022 |
| Series: | Routledge studies in African archaeology and cultural heritage
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| Summary: | "African Islands provides the first geographically and chronologically comprehensive overview of the archaeology of African islands. This book draws archaeologically informed histories of African islands into a single synthesis, focused on multiple issues of common interest, among them human impacts on previously uninhabited ecologies, the role of islands in the growth of long-distance maritime trade networks, and the functioning of plantation economies based on the exploitation of unfree labour. Addressing and repairing the longstanding neglect of Africa in general studies of island colonization, settlement, and connectivity, it makes a distinctively African contribution to studies of island archaeology. The availability of this much-needed synthesis also opens up a better understanding of the significance of African islands in the continent's past as a whole. After contextualizing chapters on island archaeology as a field and an introduction to the variety of Africa's islands and the archaeological research undertaken on them, the book focuses on four themes: arriving, altering, being, and colonizing and resisting. An interdisciplinary approach is taken to these themes, drawing on a broad range of evidence that goes beyond material remains to include genetics, comparative studies of the languages, textual evidence and oral histories, island ecologies and more. African Islands provides an up-to-date synthesis and account of all aspects of archaeological research on Africa's islands for students and academics alike"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ( xx, 317 pages) : chiefly color illustrations, maps 1 online resource (pages cm.) : 1 online resource (xx, 317 pages ) : chiefly color illustrations, maps 1 online resource (xx, 317 pages ) : maps, chiefly color illustrations 1 online resource (xx, 317 pages) : chiefly color illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1000567303 1000567346 1003245366 9781000567304 9781000567342 9781003245360 |
| Access: | Restricted for use by site license Taylor & Francis eBooks Multi-User |