Africa
Vol. 25 / No. 2
By: Roderick J. McIntosh and Susan Keech McIntosh
Forgotten Tells of Mali: New Evidence of Urban Beginnings in West Africa
The regular reader of Expedition and, almost certainly, every professional archaeologist has at one time or another experienced the spell […]
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Vol. 25 / No. 2
By: Sandra T. Barnes and Paula Ben-Amos
Benin, Oyo, and Dahomey: Warfare, State Building, and the Sacralization of Iron in West African History
Note This article was intended originally for EXPEDITION 25 no. 1 (Fall 1902), the special issue on Archaeometallurgy. For reasons […]
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By: Frank L. Lambrecht
Mabudu: A Report on a Vanishing Culture in the Northeastern Corner of the Congo Basin as it existed in 1948
In the northeastern corner of the Congo Basin rainforest lies a region known as Kibali-Ituri named after the two rivers […]
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Vol. 19 / No. 2
By: Frank L. Lambrecht
Kalahari Desert Trek Notes: From Lobatsi to Tsodilo Hills
Except in relation to the surrounding countries of the Republic of South Africa, Rhodesia and South West Africa, the Republic […]
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Vol. 18 / No. 3
By: Frank L. Lambrecht
The Pastoral Nomads of Nigeria
No matter how far the town, there is another beyond it.” Fulani proverb Little affected by western ideas and technology […]
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By: Mildred A. Konan
Calabashes in Northern Nigeria
Several women huddled together in the shade of old trees in a small open market. They sat on the sandy […]
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Vol. 16 / No. 2
By: Robert S. O. Harding
The Predatory Baboon
Between September 1970 and October 1971, I made a field study of a troop of free-ranging olive baboons near the […]
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Vol. 15 / No. 3
By: David Crownover
Gold Beads From the Gold Coast
Hutchinson, in his diary, part of Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, published by Thomas Bowdich in 1819, paints […]
View ArticleVol. 14 / No. 2
By: Ekpo O. Eyo
New Treasures From Nigeria
Recent excavations in western Nigeria conducted by the Department of Antiquities of the Government of Nigeria indicate that the town […]
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Vol. 13 / No. 2
By: Margaret Plass
The Dance of Sigi
The old chief, seventy-five years old by the calendar of the Europeans, two Sigis and ten years by the calendar […]
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