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African Archaeology, History, Anthropology, Cultural Heritage, and Area Studies Journals:

Archaeology

African Archaeological Review

Annales d'Éthiopie

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

Journal of African Archaeology

Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage

Nyame Akuma: Bulletin of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists

Sahara

History

The Journal of African History

African Historical Review

History in Africa: A Journal in Method

International Journal of African Historical Studies

Journal of West African History

South African Historical Journal

Anthropology

African Anthropologist

Anthropology Southern Africa

Cultural Heritage and Cultural and Language Studies

Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IAJIKS)

African Identities

Journal of Cultural Heritage

International Journal of Heritage Studies

Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies

Journal of African Cultural Studies

Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa

South African Journal of African Languages

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

African Area Studies

Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies

Africa Review

African Geographical Review

African Studies Review

African Studies Quarterly

ITYOPIS: Northeast African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (NEAJ) 

Journal of Eastern African Studies

Journal of the Indian Ocean Region

The Journal of North African Studies

Northeast African Studies

Rassegna di Studi Etiopici on JSTOR

Social Dynamics: a journal of African studies

South African Geographical Journal

Southern African Humanities

 

African Art and Music Journals

African Arts

Black Music Research Journal

Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture

Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa

Muziki: Journal of Music Research in Africa

Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art

Revue noire

Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa

Art Times (South Africa)

South African Journal of Art History

 

New Books (Published in 2015-2016):

Jeffrey H. Altschul, Ibrahima Thiaw and Gerald Wait (2016). A Slave Who Would Be King: Oral Tradition and Archaeology of the Recent Past in the Upper Senegal River Basin. Archaeopress, Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 314 pages. ISBN 9781784913519. 

Michael Jonathan Brass (2016). Reinterpreting chronology and society at the mortuary complex of Jebel Moya (Sudan). Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 92, 192 pages. ISBN: 9781784914318.

Jean-François Breton (2015) Les bâtisseurs des deux rives de la mer Rouge: Traditions et innovations architecturales du IXe Builders across the Red Sea. Ninth Century BC to Sixth Century AD. Avec la collaboration de Jean-Claude Bessac.  Éditions de Boccard, 308 pages. ISBN 978-2-7018-0428-6

Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya (2016). Le qsar, type d'implantation humaine au Sahara: architecture du Sud Algérien. Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 91, 340 pages. ISBN: 9781784913472.

Graham Connah (2015), African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective (Third Edition).  Cambridge University Press; 423 pages.  ISBN-10: 1107621275; ISBN-13: 978-1107621275.

Shadreck Chirikure (2015), Metals in past societies: a global perspective on indigenous African metallurgy, Springer, New York, 166 pages. ISBN 978–3-319-11640-2.

Sarah K. Croucher (2015), Capitalism and Cloves: An Archaeology of Plantation Life on Nineteeth-Century Zanzibar. Springer, New York, 256 pages. ISBN: 978-1-4419-8470-8.

Neal Ferris, Rodney Harrison, and Michael V. Wilcox, editors (2015), Rethinking Colonial Pasts through Archaeology.  Oxford University Press, 552 Pages.  ISBN: 9780199696697

Joost Fontein (2015), Remaking Mutirikwi: Landscape, Water & Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe. 2015. James Currey, 365 pages. ISBN: 978-1-847011121.

Timothy Insoll (2015), Material Explorations in African Archaeology, Oxford University Press, 496 pages. ISBN: 978-0199550067.

David Lubell (editor) (2016). Holocene Prehistory in the Télidjène Basin, Eastern Algeria Caspian occupations at Kef Zoura D and Aïn Misteheyia.  Archaeopress, 226 pages. ISBN: 9781784913731.

Peter Mitchell (2015),  Horse Nations: The Worldwide Impact of the Horse on Indigenous Societies Post - 1492.  Oxford University Press, 496 Pages. ISBN: 9780198703839

François G. Richard and Kevin C. MacDonald, editors (2015), Ethnic ambiguity and the African past: materiality, history, and the shaping of cultural identities.  UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications 65, Walnut Creek, Left Coast Press, 296 pages. ISBN 978-1-62958-007-4. Also available as an e-book, ISBN 978-1-62958-010-4.

Daniel T. Rhodes (2016 Reprint), Building Colonialism: Archaeology and Urban Space in East Africa (Debates in Archaeology) Reprint Edition.   Bloomsbury Academic, 192 pages.  ISBN-10: 1474288804; ISBN-13: 978-1474288804.

Peter R. Schmidt and Innocent Pikirayi, editors (2016), Community Archaeology and Heritage in Africa: Decolonizing Practice. Routledge, 324 pages. ISBN-10: 1138656852; ISBN-13: 978-113865685.

Walter E. A. van Beek (2015) The Forge and the Funeral: The Smith in Kapsiki/Higi Culture.  Michigan State University Press, 422 pages.  ISBN: 978-1611861662

Stephanie Wynne-Jones & Jeffrey B. Fleisher, editors (2015) Theory in Africa: locating meaning in archaeology. Routledge, 296 pages.  ISBN: 978-1-138-86061-2.

 

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