African Archaeological Review

Papers
(The median citation count of African Archaeological Review is 0. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
John W. Arthur: Beer: A Global Journey Through the Past and Present16
Giuseppina Mutri: Technological Styles in the Jebel Gharbi Lithic Industries of the Late Pleistocene (North-Western Libya)14
Dola Angèle Aguigah: Archéologie et Architecture Traditionelle en Afrique de l’Ouest12
Assimilations and Replacements of Early and Middle Holocene Ceramic Productions Across Spatial and Temporal Boundaries in Northern Sudan10
The Tichitt Culture and the Malian Lakes Region10
A Window into the Nubian Diet: A Case Study of Food Crop Storage in the Kingdom of Dongola (Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries CE), Northern Sudan9
Alice Stevenson: Egyptian Archaeology and the Twenty-First Century Museum8
Households in Transition: Persistence and Change of Dwellings in the City of Old Dongola (Sudan, 14th–17th Century)7
Deciphering Middle Stone Age Technological Behaviors: An Analysis of the Lithic Technology from Level VI-B at Mumba, Tanzania7
Investigating the MIS2 Microlithic Assemblage of Umbeli Belli Rockshelter and Its Place Within the Chrono-cultural Sequence of the LSA Along the East Coast of Southern Africa7
Geospatial Science7
Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers6
The Future of Human Origins and Modern Behavior in Africa6
Hunting by Farmers in the Central Lowveld of South Africa: The Late Iron Age Fauna from Mluwati6
Commentary on Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers6
Rethinking the Capsian: Lithic Variability Among Holocene Maghreb Hunter-Gatherers6
“All the world's a stage…”: A Valedictory Note6
Mark William Hauser and Julia John Haines: The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean5
Science, Not Black Magic: Metal and Glass Production in Africa5
African Farmers, Not Stone Age Foragers: Reassessment of Human Remains from the Mumbwa Caves, Zambia5
Phillip L. de Barros: La Métallurgie du Fer en Pays Bassar (Nord-Togo) Depuis 2400 Ans. Tome I: L’Âge du Fer Ancien (de 400 avant J.-C. à 130 après J.-C.)5
Institutionalizing a “developer pays” Principle for Commercial Archaeology as Part of Changing China-Africa Economic Relations4
Andrea Manzo: Ancient Egypt in its African Context: Economic Networks, Social and Cultural Interactions4
Wild Food: Plants, Fish and Small Animals on the Menu for Early Holocene Populations at al-Khiday, Central Sudan4
Preserving Heritage Amid War: A Protocol for Recording and Disseminating the Tomb of Djehutyhotep at the Sudan National Museum4
John Kinehan: Namib: The Archaeology of an African Desert4
New Insights on the Palaeo-archaeological Potential of the Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal3
Africa’s Cultural Crossroads: Archaeological Evidence for Ritual Syncretism in Western Uganda from Western Kansyore, Transitional Urewe, and Bigo-Period Burials3
On the Validity of the Capsian and Iberomaurusian Entities (Northwest African Later Stone Age)3
Durability, Context, and Pragmatics in Linguistic Histories3
Expanding Space and Time at Igbo-Ukwu: Insights from Recent Fieldwork3
Sustainable Development and Cultural Heritage Management in Kenya: The Impact of Changing Governance and Financing Landscapes on Developer-Led Archaeology3
Correction: Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Agricultural Economy at Ona Adi, Tigrai (Ethiopia): First look at a 1000-Year History3
Training and Collaboration in African Archaeology3
How African Pasts Can Inspire Alternative Responses to Climate Change: a Creative Writing Experiment3
Ethnoarchaeology3
First Archaeological Excavations Along the Atlantic Ocean Coastline of the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Iron Age Sites at Muanda3
“A Survey of Surveys” Revisited: Current Approaches to Landscape and Surface Archaeology in Southern Africa2
Lotfi Belhouchet: Du Capsien Chasseur au Capsien Pasteur. Pour un Modèle Régional de Néolithisation2
A Day on the Nile: Living in a Town in Nubia2
Earth, Water, Air, and Fire – Thinking about Farming and Farmscapes2
Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Agricultural Economy at Ona Adi, Tigrai (Ethiopia): First look at a 1000-Year History2
The Territory of Ancient Tipasa, Algeria: Archaeological Survey, Material Culture, and Connectivity in Central Maghreb2
The Many Meanings of “Integration”: Some Thoughts on Relating Rock Art and Excavated Archaeology in South Africa2
A Newly Discovered Acheulean Assemblage in the Mbulu Plateau, Northern Tanzania2
The Future of Heritage Management and Development in Africa2
David Phillipson: A Pan-African Archaeologist1
Communities and the Dead in Africa and Ancient Ethiopia (50–800 CE)1
Taking Stock of Foodplants Growing in the Cradle of Humankind Fossil Hominin Site, South Africa1
Preliminary Analysis of Ceramic Styles in Fier, Lankan, and Daffo, Southern Jos Plateau, Central Nigeria1
School Learning Enriched by Doing: An Apprenticing Model1
Correction to: The 4.2 ka BP Climate Event in Egypt: Integration of Archaeological, Geoarchaeological, and Bioarchaeological Evidence1
Isotopic Evidence for Socio-economic Dynamics Within the Capital of the Kingdom of Alwa, Sudan1
Large Tool Production Sequences in FLK West (Lower Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania): Conceptualizing Form and Use During the Earliest Acheulean1
Connecting the Dots: Ceramics and the Creation of Foundational Narratives in East African Archaeology1
Cemeteries, Rock Art and Other Ritual Monuments of the Tangier Peninsula, Northwestern Africa, in Wider Trans-Regional Perspective (c. 3000–500 BC)1
Some Thoughts on Glass in African Archaeology: An Introduction1
Reimagining the Role of African Universities in the Context of Archaeology and Development1
The Oudierin Drainage Archaeological Project: New Perspectives on the Saloum Delta Shell Middens (Senegal)1
Storytelling in Archaeology and the Quest for a Pedagogy of Renewal1
Developer-Led Archaeology in Ethiopia: Reflection on the Field1
Aspects of Zulu Ceramic Traditions in the Upper and Lower uThukela Basin, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa1
Archaeology and Development: Post-Conflict Rebuilding of the Archaeology and Heritage Sector in Sudan1
Re-assessing Middle Nubian cultural constructs through ceramic petrography1
Genetics and Archaeology1
Cultivating Complexity: Thirteenth Century AD Crop Systems and Wild Plant Utilization, South Africa1
Helina S. Woldekiros: The Boundaries of Ancient Trade: Kings, Commoners, and the Aksumite Salt Trade of Ethiopia1
From “Studying Prehistory” to “Making History” to “Co-creating Heritage”: Reflections on a Journey1
New Luminescence and Radiocarbon Dates for Kanem-Borno Fired-Brick Elite Sites in Kanem, Chad: Bayesian Chronological Modelling of Settlement Construction1
The Age and Graphic Attributes of the First Potteries of the Western Sahara1
Igbo-Ukwu Textiles: AMS Dating and Fiber Analysis1
Mtepe: Documentation and Analysis of a Sewn-Boat Reconstruction from Zanzibar, Tanzania1
David Phillipson: An Illustrious Synthesizer of African Archaeology1
Andrew Smith: First People: The Lost History of the Khoisan0
Why Weaving? Teaching Heritage, Mathematics, Science and the Self0
Pikunda-Munda and Batalimo-Maluba0
Material Science and the Present and Future of African Archaeology0
Troche Julia: Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt: The Old and Middle Kingdoms0
Glass Beads from Songo Mnara, Tanzania: Chemical Composition and Evidence for Local Bead Manufacture0
Lucarelli, Rita, Joshua Aaron Roberson, and Steve Vinson (eds). Ancient Egypt, New Technology: The Present and Future of Computer Visualization, Virtual Reality, and Other Digital Humanities in Egypto0
We Need Social Archaeology to Understand Resilience and Build Usable Pasts0
Holl, A. F. C.: The Mobility Imperative: A Global Evolutionary Perspective of Human Migration0
Record-Making, Research, and Removal: Mitigating Impacts on Rock Art in a CRM Context in Southern Africa—the Case of the Metolong Dam, Lesotho0
Sex Estimation in the Egyptian Old Kingdom Population (c. 2700–2180 BCE) using Logistic Regression0
African Epistemologies and Ontologies: Building a Pathway that Elevates African Ways of Constructing the World as Part of a Future African Archaeology0
Current Condition of the Iya in Benin City, the Gates and Future Preservation Strategies0
A Metallographic Study of Objects and Fragments from the Site of Igbo Isaiah, Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria0
Africa and Its Global Connections0
Multilingualism at the Crossroads of Africa: A Response to Commentaries on “Remaking Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Kansyore and Later Settlers in the Ndali Crater Lakes Region”0
Kara Cooney, Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Theban Royal Caches, AUC, Cairo, 2024, 476 pp. ISBN 978–16490312800
Glass in African Archaeology: A New Methodology Offers New Opportunities0
Kom W and Z Basin: Surface Artifact Collection, Culture History, and the Argument Over Village Occupation0
Alexandra C. Kelly: Consuming Ivory: Mercantile Legacies of East Africa and New England0
The Politics of Knowledge Production: Training and Practice of Archaeological Science in Africa0
The Role of Environmental Changes in the Development of the Agricultural Economy During Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Cultures0
Pre-Adult Burials at Tombos: An Investigation of Social Age and Health Over the Life Course in the Ancient Nile Valley0
Amarillis Pompei: The Napatan Cylindrical Sheaths. A Catalogue and Analysis of Precious Objects from the Royal Cemetery of Nuri0
The Chronology of Kilwa Kisiwani, AD 800–15000
The Current Phyto-Scape and Foodplants of Holley Shelter, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) and Its Potential for Past Foragers0
Sustainable Management and Conservation of Heritage Assets: A Case Study of the Lake Eyasi Basin, Northern Tanzania0
The Sangha River Interval, Its Earliest Village Settlements, and the Bantu-Speakers’ Expansion During the Late Holocene (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo Republic)0
Sally C. Reynolds & René Bobe (Eds.): African Paleoecology and Human Evolution0
Developer-Led Archaeology: Insights and Challenges0
Embodying Ethiopia’s Global Golden Age on the Muslim-Christian Frontier: The Allure of Glass Beads0
Historical Archaeology of the Dente Shrine at Peki, Ghana: Landscapes of Power and Memories of Atlantic Slavery in West Africa0
Prehistoric Rock Art of Jebel Shaqadud, Northwestern Butana (Sudan)0
The Future of African Archaeology—The 2023 Perspectives0
Abubakar Sule Sani: Imprints of the Archaeology of Northern Nigeria: Landscape, society and crafts around Kirfi, Bauchi region0
Commentary on Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers0
Chapurukha M. Kusimba, Tiequan Zhu, Purity Wakabari Kiura (Eds.): China and East Africa: Ancient Ties and Contemporary Flows0
A Holocene Ceramic Sequence in the Central Sahara: Pottery Traditions and Social Dynamics Seen from the Takarkori Rockshelter (SW Libya)0
A Life in African Archaeology: Autobiographical Notes0
Pikunda-Munda: Disappearance of Pottery Production in the Western Congo Basin at the End of the Early Iron Age0
Networked Farmers, Ancestral Rituals, Regional Marketplaces, and Salt: New Insights into the Complexity of First Millennium BC/AD Farming Societies in West Africa0
Reconciling Archaeology and Legacy at Gishimangeda Cave, Tanzania0
David Phillipson’s Contribution to the Archaeology of the Northern Horn of Africa0
Renewed Archaeological Research in Singida Region, Central Tanzania0
Global Connections and Connected Communities in the African Past: Stories from Cowrie Shells0
On Hunting and Meat-eating by Middle Stone Age Hominins at Loiyangalani Site in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania0
Barbara Frank: Griot Potters of the Folona: The History of an African Ceramic Tradition0
Crafting Swahili Beads: Exploring a New Glass Bead Assemblage from Northern Zanzibar, Tanzania0
Charles Bonnet: The Black Kingdom of the Nile0
Landscapes of Memory and Power: The Archaeology of a Forgotten Kingdom in Ethiopia0
Igbo-Ukwu at 50: A Symposium on Recent Archaeological Research and Analysis0
Ritual and State Making in Precolonial Rwanda0
Capturing Empire Through the Lens: Colonial Narratives and Power Structures in Henry Wellcome’s Expedition to Jebel Moya, Sudan0
The Urban Biography of a Mauritanian City: Microstratigraphic Analysis of the Eastern Quarter of Tamuda (Morocco)0
Britt Baillie and Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (Editors). African Heritage Challenges: Communities and Sustainable Development0
Salomé Zurinaga Fernández-Toríbio: España en la Campaña de Salvamento de la UNESCO en Nubia0
Contemporaneity of the Typical and Upper Capsian (Northwest African Later Stone Age)0
A Contextual Reintegration of Shaw’s 1959–1964 Igbo-Ukwu Excavation Sites and Their Material Culture0
Worldwide Research on Australopiths0
Chumnungwa Glass Beads: New Insights into the Geochemistry, Circulation, and Consumption Patterns of Pre-European Glass Beads in Iron Age Southern Africa, CE 980–16500
Disappearing Traditions in a Globalized Society? Possible Mechanisms of Continuity and Loss of Pottery Traditions in Bénin0
Unveiling Site Visibility: A Study of Farming Communities in the Magaliesberg Region, South Africa0
Malebogo Mvimi: Past Environments and Plant Use in Holocene Southern Africa. A Study of Charcoal and Seed Remains from the Late Stone Age Sites of Toteng (Botswana), Leopard Cave and Geduld (Namibia)0
African Archaeology at the Crossroads0
The Possible Time and Region of Host Switches of Ancient Malaria Parasites with Reference to the Pliocene–Quaternary Archaeological Sites in Africa0
European Trade in Malawi: The Glass Bead Evidence0
Chicumbane Connections: Lower Limpopo Valley During the First Millennium AD0
The Ash Heaps of Kweneng, South Africa0
Tumuli at Tombos: Innovation, Tradition, and Variability in Nubia during the Early Napatan Period0
The African Archaeological Review Turns Forty: Some Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future0
The 4.2 ka BP Climate Event in Egypt: Integration of Archaeological, Geoarchaeological, and Bioarchaeological Evidence0
Jean-Paul Ossah Mvondo: L’Archéologie: De la restitution de l’histoire à l’émergence de l’Afrique0
In Consideration of a Post-Professional Archaeology: Reflections on David W. Phillipson’s Research and Career0
A Focus on Western Uganda0
The Walls of Benin Reconsidered: Interpreting West African Linear Earthworks Using A. J. H. Goodwin’s Unpublished Excavation Data0
African Archaeology in Support of School Learning: an Introduction0
Spatial Organization and Socio-Economic Differentiation at the Dhar Tichitt Center of Dakhlet el Atrouss I (Southeastern Mauritania)0
The Making of Bikini Glass in Bida, Nigeria: Ethnography, Chemical Composition, and Archaeology0
Middle Stone Age Bifacial Technology and Pressure Flaking at the MIS 3 Site of Toumboura III, Eastern Senegal0
Abdel Kader Bongo Doyendze: Le Paléolithique du Gabon—Étude des industries pré-historiques du Haut-Ogooué0
Comment on Schmidt et al., “Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers”0
The Archaeology of Social Transformation in Rural Zanzibar, Tanzania, from the Eleventh Through Nineteenth Centuries CE0
My Meals Are in the Pots: Making Pots and Meals in Wollega, Southwest Ethiopia0
Production and Use of Ceramics in the First Millennium BC: Jebel Moya, Sudan0
Teardrops at the Lake: Chemistry of New Kingdom to Makuria Glass Beads and Pendants Between the First and Second Nile Cataracts0
On Food, Pots, Gender, Iron, and Archaeological Theory: Interview with Professor Randi Haaland0
Patterns of Violence in the Pre-Neolithic Nile Valley0
Stéphane Pradines: Historic mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Timbuktu to Zanzibar0
The Social Implication of a “mixed” Ceramic Assemblage: Understanding the Predynastic Community of Nag el-Qarmila (First Nile Cataract, Egypt) Through Pottery Technology0
Nicholas David (1937–2023)0
Archaeological Glass Beads as Evidence of Exchange Dynamics in West Africa0
Hunting, Fishing, and Herding in Later Stone Age and Iron Age Zambia: A Review of Zooarchaeological Evidence0
Jacques Aymeric Nsangou: Les fortifications endogènes au Sénégal Oriental (17ème – 19ème siècle)0
Herman Ogoti Kiriama: The Legacy of Slavery in Coastal Kenya: Memory, Identity, and Heritage0
Peter Mitchell: African Islands: A Comparative Archaeology0
Solange Ashby: Calling Out to Isis: The Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae0
African Museums, Archaeology, and Praxis0
Sitwe 23, a Complex ESA/MSA Locality in the Northern Luangwa Valley, Zambia0
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