Litteraturlista

Afrika - från förhistoria till tidigmodern tid

The making of Africa from prehistory to early modern times

Kurs
AE1006
Grundnivå
15 högskolepoäng (hp)

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Vårtermin 2026 (2026-01-19)
Beslutsdatum
2025-12-15

Litteratur

Alla listade titlar finns tillgängliga på Universitetsbiblioteket i fysisk och/eller digital version.

  • Mitchell, P. & Lane P.J., eds. (2013) The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (1077s)
  • Stahl, A.B., ed. (2005) African Archaeology: A Critical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell. (490s)


Tematiska och regionala studier

Afrika, förhistoria och arkeologi(er) (Delkurs 1)

Läs först kapitlen i Part II och Part III i The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology


Basell, L S. & Spinapolice, E.E. (2024) Time, the Middle Stone Age and lithic analyses following the Third Science Revolution. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 59(1): 140–159.

González-Ruibal, A. (2018) Ethics of archaeology. Annual Review of Anthropology 47(1): 345–360. (15 s.)

Ekblom, A. (2019) Archaeology, historical sciences and environmental conservation. In C. Isendahl & D. Stump (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 72-90 (18 s.)

Lane, P.J. (2005) Barbarous tribes and unrewarding gyrations? The changing role of ethnographic imagination in African archaeology. In A. Stahl (ed.), African Archaeology: A critical introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 24–54. (30 s.)

Lane, P.J. 2011. Possibilities for a post-colonial archaeology in sub-Saharan Africa. World Archaeology 43: 7–25. (18 s.)

MacEachern, S. 2007. Where in Africa does Africa start? Identity, genetics and African studies from the Sahara to Darfur. Journal of Social Archaeology 7: 393–412. (19 s.)

M’Mbogori, F.N. (2023) African Museums, Archaeology, and Praxis. African Archaeological Review 40: 789–791 (2 s.)

Mire, S. (2007) Preserving knowledge, not objects. African Archaeological Review 24: 49–71. (22 s.)

Musonda, F.B. (1990) African archaeology. African Archaeological Review 8: 3–22. (19 s.)

Ogundiran, A. (2013). The end of Prehistory? An Africanist comment. The American Historical Review 118(3): 788–801. (13 s.)

Pikirayi, I. (2016) Archaeology, local knowledge and tradition. In: P. R. Schmidt & I. Pikirayi (eds.) Community archaeology and heritage in Africa. London: Routledge, 112‒135. (24s).

Prendergast, M.E. (2023) Genetics and Archaeology. African Archaeological Review 40: 805–809. (4 s.)

Scerri, E., Thomas M., Manica A., Gunz P., Stock J., Stringer C., Grove M., Groucutt H., Timmermann A., Rightmire G., d’Errico F., Tryon C., Drake N., Brooks A., Dennell R., Durbin R., Henn B., Lee-Thorp J., deMenocal P., Petraglia M., Thompson J., Scally A. & Chikhi L. (2018) Did our species evolve in subdivided populations across Africa, and why does it matter? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 33(8): 582–592. (10 s.)

Stahl, A.B. (2005) Introduction: Changing perspectives on Africa’s pasts. In A. Stahl (ed.), African Archaeology: A critical introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1–23. (22 s.)

Tryon, C.A. & Waweru, V. (2023) The Future of Human Origins and Modern Behavior in Africa. African Archaeological Review40: 793–796. (3 s.).


Arkeologier i nordvästra Afrika (Delkurs 2)

Barich, B. (2013) Hunter-gatherer-fishers of the Sahel and Sahara. In P. Mitchell & P. Lane (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 445‒460. (15 s.)

Breunig, P. (2013) Pathways to food production in the Sahel. In P. Mitchell & P. Lane (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 555‒570. (15 s.)

Cornelissen, E. (2013) Hunting and gathering in Africa’s tropical forests at the end of the Pleistocene and in the early Holocene. In P. Mitchell & P. Lane (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 403‒418. (13 s.)

De Maret, P. (2013) Archaeologies of the Bantu Expansion. In P. Mitchell & P. Lane (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 627‒644. (18 s.)

Fuller, D. & E. Hildebrand (2013). Domesticating plants in West Africa. In P. Mitchell & P. Lane (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 507‒526. (19 s.)

McIntosh, S.K. (1999 [2005]). Pathways to complexity: An African perspective. In S.K. McIntosh (ed.), Beyond Chiefdoms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1‒30. (19 s.)

McIntosh, R. (2015) Different cities: Jenne-jeno and African urbanism. In N.

Yoffee (Ed.), The Cambridge World History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 364‒380. (16 s.)

Ongudiran, A. (2013) Towns and states of the West African forest belt. In P. Mitchell & P. Lane (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 859‒874. (15 s.)

Ongudiran, A. (2023) Classic Ilé-Ifẹ̀. A consideration of scale in the archaeology of early Yorùbá urbanism, AD 1000‒1400. Journal of Urban Archaeology 7: 77‒89. (11 s.)

Wang, X., Bocksberger G., Arandjelovic M. et al. (2024) Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing origins of victims of the transatlantic slave trade. Nature Communications 15: 10891.


Arkeologier i Sydöstra Afrika (Delkurs 3)

González-Ruibal, A. (2024) Landscapes of Memory and Power: The Archaeology of a Forgotten Kingdom in Ethiopia. African Archaeological Review 41: 71–95 (24 s.)

Lane, P. The archaeology of pastoralism and stock-keeping in East Africa. In P. Mitchell & P. Lane (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 585‒602. (17 s.)

LaViolette, A. (2013). The Swahili world. In P. Mitchell & P. Lane (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 901‒914. (13 s.)

Lindholm, K.-J. (2019) Wells, land, and history: archaeology and rural development in southern Africa. In C. Isendahl & D. Stump (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 323–344. (21 s.)

Mitchell, P. Early farming communities of southern and south-central Africa. In P. Mitchell & P. Lane (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 657‒670. (13 s.)

Pikirayi, I. (2013) The Zimbabwe Culture and its neighbours. In P. Mitchell & P. Lane (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 915‒928. (14 s.)

Sinclair, P. (2013) The archaeology of African urbanism. In P. Mitchell & P. Lane (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 689‒702. (13 s.)

Stump, D. (2019) Digging for indigenous knowledge. In C. Isendahl & D. Stump (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 136–155. (19 s.)

Sulas F (2018) Traditions of water in the highlands of the northern horn of Africa. In F. Sulas & I. Pikirayi (eds.) ,Water and Societies from Ancient Times to the Present. London and New York: Routledge, 155–175. (20 s.)

Sulas, F. & Pikirayi, I. (2020) From centre–periphery models to textured urban landscapes: Comparative perspectives from sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Urban Archaeology 1: 67–83. (16 s.)

Trotzig, G. (1988) Gränslös arkeologi: svenska arkeologer i Östafrika och på Sri Lanka. Kulturminnes vård 2: 13–18.