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View article: Africa’s Cultural Crossroads: Archaeological Evidence for Ritual Syncretism in Western Uganda from Western Kansyore, Transitional Urewe, and Bigo-Period Burials
Africa’s Cultural Crossroads: Archaeological Evidence for Ritual Syncretism in Western Uganda from Western Kansyore, Transitional Urewe, and Bigo-Period Burials Open
Archaeological research in the Ndali Crater Lakes Region (NCLR) in western Uganda has contributed significant insights into first millennium AD multilingual communities. These diverse communities, sharing food ways, ceramic technologies, a…
Larval surveys reveal breeding site preferences of malaria vector Anopheles spp. in Zanzibar City Open
In Zanzibar City - the capital of the Zanzibar archipelago in Tanzania - the incidence of malaria has decreased over the past few decades due to standardized treatment protocols and public health interventions targeting adult mosquitoes. H…
Visualizing Empire in Africa: Postage Stamps and Stationery Letterheads as Sites of Affiliation and Subversion Open
Before the website and the text emoji, the postage stamp and the letterhead adorned written communications. The expansion of the post created a system in which the British Empire (like other states and empires), through these forms, was le…
View article: Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers
Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers Open
Archaeological and environmental research by an international and interdisciplinary team opens new perspectives into the settlement histories of Kansyore, Early Iron Age, and Bigo period peoples in the once forested regions of the Ndali Cr…
A Tapestry of Human-Induced and Climate-Driven Environmental Change in Western Uganda: The Ndali Crater Lakes Region Open
Recent archaeological and paleoenvironmental research in the Ndali Crater Lakes Region (NCLR) of western Uganda provide important new insights into anthropogenic impacts on moist forests to the East of the Rwenzori Mountains. This research…
Real but unrealised: object transformations and political economy in East and southern Africa, AD 750–1250 Open
Archaeologists of East and southern Africa have long been attracted to large urban centres, such as those on the Swahili coast, and to the circulation of imported goods. Here, the authors aim to refocus attention on the diversity of object…
View article: Climate obstruction in the Global South: Future research trajectories
Climate obstruction in the Global South: Future research trajectories Open
“Climate Obstruction” broadly refers to campaigns and other policy actions led by well-organized and financed networks of corporate and other actors who have actively sought to prevent global and/or national action on climate change over t…
Trends in urban planning, climate adaptation and resilience in Zanzibar, Tanzania Open
Over recent decades, there has been substantial change in Zanzibar, due to, among others, global climate change impacts. The semi-autonomous polity faces challenges to foster resilient urban communities and planning for mitigation and adap…
View article: Issue Information ‐ TOC
Issue Information ‐ TOC Open
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Inland Connectivity in Ancient Tanzania Open
This research note emphasizes human entanglement inland of the East African marine coastal fringe, but tied to it and to the Swahili World, c. ad 750-1550.Social, economic, political, and ritual intersections developed between late pre-urb…
Toward an Ethnoarchaeomalacology of Achatina in East Africa Open
Land snail shell is a material commonly identified in the Late Holocene archaeological record of eastern Africa. Typically, archaeologists designate land snail shell as a natural occurrence or as debris produced from human subsistence. Eth…
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We live in a state of increasing vulnerability, real and imagined. For calm and understanding, around the world individuals and communities employ materials to reflect on, share, and treat traumas of different scales. Our desire to overcom…