Ethnoarchaeology of Shuwa-Arab Settlements

Ethnoarchaeology of Shuwa-Arab Settlements demonstrates the imperative need for ethnoarchaeology to include a deep sense of the history of the specific social group under analysis for its findings to truly impact archaeological thinking.

Augustin F. C. Holl is professor of anthropology and Afroamerican & African Studies at the University of Michigan and a Curator at the University of Michigan's Museum of Anthropology.

List of Figures

ix

List of Tables

xi

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction: An Idea of Ethnoarchaeology

1

(396)

Part I: People, Land, and the Study Area

1: A Brief History of Shuwa-Arab Expansion

7

(22)

2: The Study Area: Land, People, and Settlements

29

(24)

Part II: Semipermanent Villages

3: The Southern Settlement Group

53

(24)

4: The Western Settlement Group

77

(68)

5: Two Northern Settlements

145

(24)

Part III: Dry-season Camps

6: The Amachita Camps Cluster

169

(32)

7: The Agedipse Camps Cluster

201

(28)

Part IV: Permanent villages

229

(74)

8: Abuzrega

9: Djidat I

245

(16)

10: Djidat II

261

(26)

11: Marafaine

287

(16)

Part V: Patterns and Trends

12: Location Tactics, Space Allocation, and Site Structures

303

(20)

13: Patterns in the Material Record

323

(48)

14: Patterns of Subsistence

371

(18)

Conclusion: Toward a Shuwa-Arab Polity?

389

(8)

References

397

(6)

Index

403

(20)

About the Author

423

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Ethnoarchaeology of Shuwa-Arab Settlements

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