Further reading

Badenhorst, S. ‘Descent of Iron Age farmers in southern Africa during the last 2000 years.' African Archaeological Review, 27 (2010), 87-106.

Blench, R.M. ‘Using linguistics to reconstruct African subsistence systems: comparing crop names to trees and livestock.' In T.P.

Blench, R.M. and K.C. MacDonald (eds.). The Origins and Development of African Livestock: Archaeology, Genetics, Linguistics and Ethnography. London: UCL Press, 2000.

Breunig, P. ‘Pathways to food production in the Sahel.' In Mitchell and Lane (eds.), Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology, 555-70.

Casey, J. ‘The Stone to Metal Age in West Africa.' In Mitchell and Lane (eds.), Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology, 599-610.

Curtis, M. ‘Archaeological evidence for the emergence of food production in the Horn of Africa.' In Mitchell and Lane (eds.), Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology, 567-80.

de Maret, P. ‘Archaeologies of the Bantu expansion.' In Mitchell and Lane (eds.), Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology, 627-43.

Denbow, J. The Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Eggert, M.K.H. ‘Central Africa and the archaeology of the equatorial rainforest: reflections on some major topics.' In T. Shaw, P. Sinclair, B. Andah, and A. Okpoko (eds.), The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns. London: Routledge, 1993. 289-329.

Ehret, C. An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 bc to ad 400. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998.

Fuller, D. and E.A. Hildebrand. ‘Domesticating plants in Africa.' In Mitchell and Lane (eds.), Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology, 503-21.

Gifford-Gonzalez, D.

Gifford-Gonzalez, D. and O. Hanotte, ‘Domesticating animals in Africa: implications of genetic and archaeological findings.' Journal of World Prehistory, 24 (2011), 1-23.

Huffman, T.N. Handbook to the Iron Age: The Archaeology ofPre-colonial Farming Societies in Southern Africa. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007.

Jousse, H. and J. Lesur (eds.). People and Animals in Holocene Africa: Recent Advances in Archaeozoology. Frankfurt: Africa Magna, 2011.

Kusimba, C. and S.B. Kusimba (eds.). East African Archaeology: Foragers, Potters, Smiths and Traders. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2003.

Lane, P.J. ‘Trajectories of pastoralism in northern and central Kenya: an overview of the archaeological and environmental evidence.' In M. Bollig, M. Schnegg, and H.-P. Wotzka (eds.), Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present and Future. Oxford: Berghahn, 2013.104-43.

Lesur, J. Chasse et elevage dans la Corne de l’Afrique entre le Neolithique et les Temps Historiques. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2007.

MacDonald, K.C., R. Vernet, M. Martinon-Torres, and D.Q. Fuller. ‘Dhar Nema: from early agriculture to metallurgy in southeastern Mauritania.' Azania, 44 (2009), 3-48.

Manning, K. ‘A developmental history of West African agriculture.' In P. Allsworth-Jones (ed.), West African Archaeology: New Developments, New Perspectives. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2010. 43-52.

Marshall, F.B. and E.A. Hildebrand. ‘Cattle before crops: the beginnings of food production in Africa.' Journal of World Prehistory, 16 (2002), 99-143.

Mazel, A.D. ‘People making history: the last ten thousand years of hunter-gatherer communities in the Thukela basin.' Southern African Humanities, 1 (1989), 1-168.

Mitchell, P.J. The Archaeology of Southern Africa. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Mitchell, P.J.

Neumann, K., K. Boesten, A. Hohn, et al. ‘First farmers in the CentralAfrican rainforest: a view from southern Cameroon.' Quaternary International, 249 (2012), 53-62.

Oslisly, R., L. White, I. Bentaleb, et al. ‘Climatic and cultural changes in the West Congo basin forests over the past 5000 years.' Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 368 (2013), 20120304.

Phillipson, D.W. African Archaeology. 3rd edn. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Sadr, K. ‘A short history of early herding in southern Africa.' In M. Bollig, M. Schnegg, and H.-P. Wotzka (eds.), Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present and Future. Oxford: Berghahn, 2013. 171-97.

Stevens, CJ., S. Nixon, M.A. Murray, and D.Q. Fuller (eds.). The Archaeology of African Plant Use. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2014.

Wadley, L. ‘Gender in the prehistory of sub-Saharan Africa.' In D. Bolger (ed.), A Companion to Gender Prehistory. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 313-32.

Wright, D.K. ‘Frontier animal husbandry in the Northeast and East African Neolithic: a multiproxy palaeoenvironmental and palaeodemographic study.' Journal of Anthropological Research, 26 (2011), 213-44.