This book provides the first detailed description of the prehistory of the Loango coast of west-central Africa over the course of more than 3000 years.

A radical reassessment of the importance of women in East-Central African society during the precolonial period.

Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development

This book presents an interdisciplinary overview of the origins of African livestock, placing Africa as one of the world centres for animal domestication. With

Cognitive Archaeology: Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond aims to interpret the social and cultural lives of the past, in part by using