Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Preface xi
5. 1 Comparing Prehistoric and Historic Hunter-Gatherer Mobility in Southern Kenya 1
6. 2 The East African Neolithic: A Historical Perspective 17
7. 3 Archaeological Implications of Hadzabe Forager Land Use in the Eyasi Basin, Tanzania 33
8. 4 Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology: Some Examples from Kenya 59
9. 5 Fipa Iron Technologies and Their Implied Social History 71
10. 6 Early Iron working Communities on the East African Coast: Excavations at Kivinja, Tanzania 87
11. 7 Iron working on the Swahili Coast of Kenya 99
12. 8 Iron Age Settlement Patterns and Economic Change on Zanzibar and Pemba Islands 117
13. 9 Politics, Cattle, and Conservation: Ngorongoro Crater at a Crossroads 133
14. 10 The Origins of the State in East Africa 149
15. 11 East African Archaeology: A Southern African Perspective 167
16. References 183
17. Contributors 219
18. Index 221