African Archaeological Journals and Social Issues 2014–2021 by Cheryl Claassen

“…I conclude that parity of gender authorship—assuming 61% male and 39% female archaeologists—has been achieved by the <i>African Archaeological Review</i>, <i>Journal of African Archaeology</i>, and <i>Azania</i>. …”
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Building an Integrated Database of North-Eastern African Archaeological and Heritage Sites for Mapping Complex Social Landscapes by David Laguna-Palma, Maurizio Toscano, Carlos Rodríguez-Rellán

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Neolithic grinding practices at Svinjarička Čuka, Serbia by Laura Dietrich, Michael Brandl, Barbara Horejs

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Flints from the Road: on the Significance of two Enigmatic Stone Tools Found along the Darb el-Tawil by Heiko Riemer, Karin Kindermann

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Rock Art and Archaeology – a Short Visit to Zolat el Hammad, Northern Sudan by Friederike Jesse

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Beyond Colonial Boundaries: Reimagining the Rozvi through Landscapes, Identities and Indigenous Epistemologies by Lesley Hatipone Machiridza, Russell Kapumha

“…However, since African archaeology and history remains trapped in Eurocentric colonial metanarratives, indigenous epistemologies and ontologies have somehow remained on the margins of knowledge production processes. …”
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Systematic Ancient DNA Species Identification Fails to Find Late Holocene Domesticated Cattle in Southern Africa by K. Ann Horsburgh, Anna L. Gosling

“…We report the results of a systematic ancient DNA survey of appropriately sized bovid remains from Later Stone Age deposits in four South African archaeological sites. We show that none of the tested remains originated in domesticated cattle. …”
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Presenting the AfriArch Isotopic Database by Steven Goldstein, Sean Hixon, Erin Scott, Jesse Wolfhagen, Victor Iminjili, Anneke Janzen, Kendra Chritz, Elizabeth Sawchuk, Emmanuel Ndiema, Judith C. Sealy, Abigail Stone, Gretchen Zoeller, Leanne N. Phelps, Ricardo Fernandes

“…Here we present a dataset of bioarchaeological stable isotope (C/N/O) and radiocarbon measurements from African archaeological sites spanning the Holocene. Modern measurements, when reported together with archaeological data in original publications, are also included. …”
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The Role of Aerial Prospection for Monitoring and Preserving Cultural Heritage in Northeastern Africa by David Laguna-Palma, Maurizio Toscano, Carlos Rodríguez-Rellán

“…Furthermore, our study seeks to provide new insights into data management and dissemination, fostering open research practices within North African archaeological research.…”
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Travail du laiton et production de mforowa parmi les Akan de la côte du Ghana du xviie au xxe siècle by Christopher R. DeCorse

“…Because the production ranges of many European manufactures are well known and can be closely dated—often within decades—they afford a means of more closely dating associated artifacts than is often possible on African archaeological sites of the past 500 years. This chronological control provides new insights into brass working traditions of the coastal Akan, particularly the use and reuse of imported brass. …”
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Brass Working and Mforowa Manufacture among the Akan of Coastal Ghana during the 17th–20th centuries by Christopher R. DeCorse

“…Because the production ranges of many European manufactures are well known and can be closely dated—often within decades—they afford a means of more closely dating associated artifacts than is often possible on African archaeological sites of the past 500 years. This chronological control provides new insights into brass working traditions of the coastal Akan, particularly the use and reuse of imported brass. …”
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Ostrich eggshell beads from Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter, southern Kalahari, and the implications for understanding social networks during Marine Isotope Stage 2. by Amy Hatton, Benjamin Collins, Benjamin J Schoville, Jayne Wilkins

“…Ostrich eggshell (OES) beads from southern African archaeological contexts shed light on past traditions of personal ornamentation, and they are also argued to provide a proxy for understanding past social networks. …”
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Migrating microbes: what pathogens can tell us about population movements and human evolution by Charlotte J. Houldcroft, Jean-Baptiste Ramond, Riaan F. Rifkin, Simon J. Underdown

“…Methods: This study explores which pathogens leave traces in the archaeological record, and whether there are realistic prospects that these pathogens can be recovered from sub-Saharan African archaeological contexts. Results: Three stories are then presented of germs on a journey. …”
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Particle size distribution: An experimental study using southern African reduction methods and raw materials. by Paloma de la Peña, Marc Thomas, Tumelo R Molefyane

“…We produced the dataset using knapping methods and raw materials frequently encountered in the southern African archaeological record because we wanted to test whether it has the same distribution as particle size datasets experimentally created in Europe, and to initialise the production of a database for use in the analysis of lithic assemblages from southern African Late Pleistocene deposits. …”
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Object biography of a decorated ivory artefact from Vryheid (MNR04), a Late Iron Age site in the Limpopo Valley of South Africa by Antonites, A, Ashley, C, Coutu, A, O'Connor, S, Tiley-Nel, S

Revisiting Pniel 6: the 2017-2019 excavations by Ecker, M, Bank, C-G, Chazan, M, Chen, Y, Green, C, Morris, D, Stoikopoulos, N, Shadrach, K, Stratford, D, Duke, H

The spaces between places: a landscape study of foragers on the Greater Mapungubwe Landscape, southern Africa by Forssman, T

“…Second, a full landscape understanding combines the archaeology of multiple cultural landscapes and in this case also crosses national borders, two themes often neglected in southern African archaeological studies.</p>…”

The gatherer and the grindstone: towards a methodological toolkit for grindstone analysis in southern Africa by Eoin, L

“…</p> <p>This doctoral thesis interrogates grindstones with a view not only to establishing specific (rather than proxy) uses in the southern African archaeological record,but also as a means to explore the gathered side of hunter-gatherer lifeways, which have also historically been neglected. …”