How people engaged with materials such as clay or stone, why people dug features such as pits, why they decorated their bodies, or treated their dead in certain ways, were all meaningful in the African past. However, these are subjects that have been generally neglected by archaeologists working in Africa until recently. Material Explorations in African Archaeology examines materiality in African archaeology by exploring concepts of material agency and material engagement and entanglement in relation to their manifest presence in persons, animals, objects, substances, and contexts of the African past.

About the Author
Timothy Insoll is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Manchester.


Book Information
ISBN 9780199550067
Author Insoll
Format Hardback
Page Count 496
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press