HIST 3395 & 4386: Pre- Colonial African History

Archeological Reports (also not technically primary sources, but I’ll count them as primary sources here if you can cite the archeological evidence that is the basis for interpretation): Note: Please click on the links below to access the items held within the University Libraries Catalog. You will find the Call Number within each provided link!

• Chapurukha Makokha Kusimba, East African Archeology (East Africa, Swahili Coast)

  • Chapurukha Makokha Kusimba, The Rise and Fall of Swahili States (East Africa, Swahili Coast)

  • Tina L. Thurston, ed., Seeking a Richer Harvest (see chapter by Kusimba, East Africa)

  • Felix Chami, Historical archaeology of Bagamoyo (East Africa, Swahili Coast)

  • Susan McIntosh, The social construction of ancient cities (Middle Niger, Jenne-Jeno)

  • Christopher R. DeCorse, West Africa During the Atlantic Slave Trade (Coastal West Africa)

  • Roderick McIntosh, The peoples of the Middle Niger (Middle Niger, Jenne-Jeno)

  • Roderick McIntosh, Ancient Middle Niger (Middle Niger, Jenne-Jeno)

  • Graham Connah, 3000 years in Africa  (General Africa)

  • Graham Connah, Polished stone axes in Benin (Coastal West Africa)

  • Graham Connah, The archaeology of Benin (Coastal West Africa)

  • H. Chittick, A guide to the ruins of Kilwa (East Africa Swahili Coast)

  • H. Chittick, Kisimani Mafia (East Africa, Swahili Coast)

  • W. Neer, Contribution to the archaeozoology of Central Africa (Central Africa, Congo)

  • Julio Mercader, ed., Under the Canopy: the Archaeology of Tropical Rain Forests (Part I on Central Africa, Congo Rainforest)

  • Kit W. Wesler, Historical archaeology in Nigeria (West Africa) 

  • Niall Finneran, The archaeology of Ethiopia (Horn of Africa, Ethiopia)

  • Timothy Insoll, The archaeology of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa (Middle Niger and Swahili Coast)

  • John Wood Arthur, Living with pottery: ethnoarchaeology among the Gamo of southwest Ethiopia (Horn of Africa, Ethiopia)

  • J. Lewis-Williams, San spirituality (Southern Africa, Khoi-San)

  • Akinwumi Ogundiran, Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora (Coastal West Africa)

  • Augustin Holl, The land of Houlouf : genesis of a Chadic polity, 1900 B.C.-A.D. 1800 (Sahelian Africa, Nilotic)

  • Peter Schmidt, Iron technology in East Africa (Central Africa, Great Lakes Region)

  • David N. Edwards, The Nubian past : an archaeology of the Sudan (Sahelian Africa, Nilotic)

  • Ramkrishna Mukherjee, The ancient inhabitants of Jebel Moya, Sudan (Sahelian Africa, Nilotic)

  • Ian Hodder, Symbols in action : ethnoarchaeological studies of material culture (East and central Africa)

  • Abbas S. Mohammed-Ali, The late prehistory of the eastern Sahel (Sahelian Africa, Nilotic)