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The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Archaeology offers a comprehensive overview of the field's current scholarship, provided by an international community of researchers. The Encyclopedia covers the most pressing questions in the practice and study of archaeology in Africa, with a scope that cuts across the continent and includes time periods both distant and contemporary.

Conditioned by local ways of knowing and doing, Great Zimbabwe develops a new interpretation of the famous World Heritage site of Great Zimbabwe.

This book seeks to communicate to both a global and local audience, the key attributes of pre-industrial African metallurgy such as technological variation across space and time, methods of mining and extractive metallurgy and the fabrication of metal objects.  These processes were transformative in a physical and metaphoric sense, which made them total social facts. Because the production and use of metals was an accretion of various categori...