* provides rarely discussed yet important information on African islands that enriches our understanding of key themes within island archaeology as a whole
* synthesizes and evaluates the archaeological work undertaken on Africa's islands thus far and reveals its importance for understanding the African past as a whole
* integrates a wide range of evidence, drawn from many disciplines and sources to offer researchers and students a comprehensive comparative study of Africa's island archaeologies and histories
Peter Mitchell is Professor of African Archaeology at Oxford University, Tutor and Fellow in Archaeology at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and Research Associate of the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand. Former President of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, he has written widely on African archaeology and related topics
Title: African Islands: A Comparative Archaeology (Routledge Studies in African Archaeology and Cultural Heritage)
Author: Mitchell, Peter
ISBN: 9781032156927
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2022-04-12
Number of Pages: 318
Weight: 0.9303 kg
As far as this reviewer is aware, this is the first book to treat the archaeology of the circum-African islands as a coherent whole. It does so expertly and comprehensively. Mitchell is one of the few scholars qualified to write a book of this type, moving as it does across enormous swathes of space and time and drawing on various traditions of archaeology and theoretical perspectives. The result is a major contribution to African archaeology, with relevance far beyond the continent. Thomas P. Leppard - Journal of African Archaeology