Abstract In West Africa, there is a disjuncture between historical processes in the second
millennium BC and late first millennium AD due to a comparative lack of archaeological …

This article presents observations on grinding-stone implements and their uses in Elgeyo-
Marakwet County, northwest Kenya. Tool use in Marakwet is contextualized with a select …

This paper explores the evidence for beer production, consumption, and ritual use at
Kirikongo (100–1650 CE), a well-preserved archaeological site located in Mouhoun …

Earlier generations of Mesoamerican scholars created figurine types and chronologies,
laying the foundation for today's archaeologists who have been linking figurines to …

Recent archaeological research has transformed our understandings of events and
processes in West Africa between the beginning of iron‐use ca. 800 BCE and the arrival of …

The archaeological record of southeastern Mauritania has considerable potential to
contribute to longstanding anthropological debates in world prehistory, such as early cereal …

Tell sites are central to archaeological interpretation in many world regions due to their
lengthy sequences of stratified deposits. However, the cultural choices that create …

Archaeologists are often confronted with broken objects, and the recovery of only part of an
object therefore rarely causes us to question why we have not recovered more. But what if …

This study examines the irony in the two religions, Christian and Islamic with respect to the
organization and patronage of funerals in Ghana. Data was collected in four communities …

Land in northern Ghana (Kröger; Anquandah,). e pioneering excavation and publications by
James Anquandah (Anquandah and van Ham; Anquandah,) established their provenance …