Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa

Papers
(The TQCC of Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
C. Garth Sampson (1941–2025)12
Kings, warriors and shifting towns: the struggle for power in the Upper Casamance (Senegal), 1830–196012
Small tool production in the Howiesons Poort: a view from Montagu Cave, South Africa11
San rock paintings of women in the southern Maloti-Drakensberg and eastern Stormberg, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa: ritual specialists, potency and social conditioning9
Escape and abscond: the use of ostrich potency by nineteenth-century rock artists in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa9
The Turkwel settlement at Oltioki in Baringo: exploring cultural variation in the terminal Pastoral Neolithic of Kenya9
A preliminary phytolith analysis of terrace soils from Buffelskloof, Mpumalanga, South Africa8
Editorial8
A mysterious burial from the Kerma Culture (second millennium BC) in the Bayuda Desert of Sudan7
Adadi Maryam: a new perspective about the southernmost rock-cut church in the Ethiopian Highlands6
‘This blessed city’: excavations at the second-millennium AD trade town of Jenné (Inland Niger Delta, Mali)5
Correction5
Beads from Excavations at Qustul, Adindan, Serra East, Dorgininarti, Ballana, and Kalabsha: A-Group, Post-A-Group, C-Group, N-Type, P-Type, Pan Grave, Kerma, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom4
Twentieth-century Bena iron production in the Njombe district of Tanzania4
Terminal Neolithic archaeology in northern Butana, central Sudan, as seen from the site of NB44
Commentary: confronting different forms of power4
Stone Age batch polishing: experimental ostrich eggshell bead finishing techniques4
Archaeological and palynological evidence of iron smelting and its ecological consequences in the Ijebu Forest, Nigeria4
Editorial4
‘What sort of thing is an elephant?’ Reviewing the evidence for a ‘generic’ MSA in Central Africa3
The nineteenth-century Matabele settlements on the South African Highveld , University of the Witwatersrand, 20233
Tom Huffman (1944–2022)3
‘I resided in Dongola, amongst the Nubians and Muslims, on my own.’ The sixteenth-century account of Ethiopian monk Takla ’Alfā in context3
Editorial3
The rock art of Kakapel Shelter, western Kenya3
Reconstructing the 1891 Lugalo battlefield in Iringa Region, Tanzania: survey and analysis of German Mauser rifle and Maxim gun cartridge casings2
Connecting survey data with targeted test excavations to understand lithic artefacts in the landscape of the southern Kalahari, Botswana2
Pleistocene archaeology and environments of the Free State, South Africa2
Teniky: enigmatic architecture at an archaeological site in southern Madagascar2
Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa: Hominin Behavior, Geography, and Chronology2
Landscape-scale perspectives on Later Stone Age settlement in the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa2
Lead isotopic provenance of some coins and other bronze items from an early Swahili site in Ibo Island (northern Mozambique)2
A new interpretation of the military settlements of the northern Nguni2
Revisiting the current phyto-scape of Boomplaas Cave (South Africa) and the possible implications of this for past day-range foraging2
Westward expansion of pearl millet agriculture into the Lac de Guiers basin, Senegal, by c. AD 2002
The Ile-Ife glass bead series: classification, chaîne opératoire and the ‘glass bead roads’ in West African archaeology2
Graham Connah (1934–2023): a personal remembrance and tribute2
Indigenous persistence and change during early colonial encounters on the Tanzanian coast: ceramic evidence2
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