Society, culture, and technology in Africa
By: edited by S. Terry Childs.
Contributors: Childs, S. Terry.; University of Pennsylvania. Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology
Series: MASCA research papers in science and archaeology -- v. 11, suppl.
Publisher: MASCA, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Anthropology, Prehistoric -- Africa.; Prehistoric peoples -- Africa.; Africa -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Society, culture, and technology in Africa, an introduction / S. Terry Childs; value: Early Pleistocene fire technology in northern Kenya / Randy V. Bellomo; value: Use and movement of obsidian in the Early and Middle Stone Ages of Kenya and northern Tanzania / Harry V. Merrick, Francis H. Brown, and William P. Nash; value: Early copper and brass in Senegal / Laurence Garenne-Marot, Michael. L. Wayman, and Vincent C. Pigott; value: Indigenous and imported metals at Swahili sites on the coast of Kenya / Chapurukha M. Kusimba, David J. Killick, and Richard G. Cresswell; value: Kaonde copper smelting, technical versatitlity and the ethnographic record / Duncan Miller; value: Masons of Maili, a millenniium of design and technology in earthen materials / Adria LaViolette; value: Skimming through potters' agendas, an ethnoarchaeological study of clay selection strategies in Cameroon / Olivier P. Gosselain.