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The Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa
Title
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Tables
Acknowledgments
1 Behind the Scenes of Research
Introduction
Arrivals
Landscapes and Constructed Meanings
The Mayombe Mountains: Guardian of the Eastern Gateway to Loango
The Mundane Logistics of Archaeological Fieldwork
2 Pride and Prejudice: Big Oil, Eucalyptus, and the People without History
Beginnings
The Oil Business
Back at Camp
Eucalyptus and the People without History
Larger Issues of Prejudice
Bernard Gets the Last Word
3 Natural and Cultural Environment
Geomorphology
Late Holocene Climate
The Cultivated Environment
Agriculture
Domesticated Animals
Hunting and Fishing
The Contemporary Environment
Dryland Savanna
Seasonally Flooded Grassland, Forest, and Marsh
Coastal Thickets, Cirques, and Mangrove Forests
Rainforest
Sacred or Medicinal Trees of the Coastal Savanna
Fishing
Marine
Freshwater
Hunting
Bush Meat (Gibier)
4 Preservation: Heritage and Reconnaissance
Where Legend and Archaeology Intersect
Archaeological Surveys
Initial Discoveries
Reconnaissance of the Eucalyptus Plantations
Methodology
Results
Pre-Ceramic Later Stone Components (1300–100 BC)
Ceramic Later Stone (1300–50 BC)
Phase 1 (1300–500 BC)
Phase 2 (500–50 BC)
Early Iron Age (150 BC–AD 800)
Herringbone Ware Sites (150 BC–AD 650)
Carinated Broadly Grooved Ware (AD 400–600)
Spaced Curvilinear Ware (AD 600–900)
Later Iron Age
Precontact LIA (AD 1100–1500)
Historic Period (AD 1500–1900)
European Imports
Shell Middens
Spatial and Cultural Chronology
The Serendipity of Beautiful Objects
5 Ceramic Later Stone Age Excavations
The Ceramic Later Stone Age or “Neolithic”
Archaeology and Cultural Classifications
Later Stone Age Occupations: Gray Sand, Kayes, and BP 113
Gray Sand
Kayes
BP 113
Ceramic LSA Sites: Tchissanga, Mvindou, and Lamba
Phase 1 CLSA: 1300–400 BC
Tchissanga
Lamba
Ceramics
Non-Ceramic Materials
Phase 2 CLSA: 500–100 BC
Mvindou
Feature Descriptions
Ceramics
Conclusion
6 The Early Iron Age
Introduction
Early Iron Age (EIA) Phases 1 and 2: Excavations at BP 113 and Kayes
BP 113
Features
Pits
Hearth
Iron and Copper
Lithics
Ceramics
Shape
Temper
Firing and Surface Finish
Vessel Typology
Summary
Iron and Lithics
Ceramics
Shape
Temper, Firing, and Surface Finish
Decoration
Vessel Classes
Kayes Summary
Kayes
Early Iron Age Phase 3: Madingo-Kayes and Lac Ndembo
Madingo-Kayes
Lac Ndembo
Iron and Lithics
Ceramics
Shape
Temper, Firing, and Surface Finish
Vessel Classes
Lac Ndembo Summary
An Unexpected Digression from Research
7 Later Iron Age Sites and the Historic Period
The Later Iron Age
Phase 1 Later Iron Age: AD 1100–1500
Condé
Loubanzi
Ceramics
Lithics, Fauna, and Metal
Lithics
Fauna
Metal
Phase 2 Later Iron Age: The Historic Period (AD 1500–1900)
Bwali or Bouali, the Capital of Loango
Indigenous Money: Salt and Weaving
Cloth and the Slave Trade
The End of the Slave Trade and Colonial Rule
A Less-Well-Known, but Lasting, Consequence of the Slave Trade
8 Opening Pandora’s Box: From Loango to the Okavango
Introduction
Languages
Bantu Languages
“Khoisan” Languages
Pygmy Languages?
Food Production
Domesticated Crops
Domesticated Animals
Goats
Sheep
Cattle
Pottery and Iron Working
Early Iron Age Ceramic Traditions
Metalworking
The Later Iron Age: AD 1100–1800
9 Summation
The Ceramic Later Stone Age
The Iron Age
The Late Prehistoric and Historic Periods
The State of Cultural Heritage Management
It Takes a Village …
Appendix
Notes
Behind the Scenes of Research
Pride and Prejudice: Big Oil, Eucalyptus, and the People without History
Natural and Cultural Environment
Preservation: Heritage and Reconnaissance
Ceramic Later Stone Age Excavations
The Early Iron Age
Later Iron Age Sites and the Historic Period
Opening Pandora’s Box: From Loango to the Okavango
Bibliography
Index