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African Archaeological Review

Springer SSCI Non-OA
2026 Emerging Zone 32025 CAS Zone 22025 JCR Q2
139.2Average days
109Median days
72Fastest days
343Longest days
402025 publications

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106 days

Auditory Affordances of Game Pass Shelter (South Africa): Implications for Performative Practices and Multisensory Engagement with San Rock Art

AuthorsNeemias Santos da Rosa; Lidia Alvarez-Morales; Diego Moreno-Iglesias; Ghilraen Laue; Margarita Díaz-Andreu

Affiliations1. French National Centre for Scientific Research – CNRS, UMR 5199 PACEA, University of Bordeaux, Pessac Cedex, France; 2. Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; 3. Institut d’Arqueologia - Departament d’Història i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; 4. Departamento de Construcciones Arquitectónicas I, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain; 5. KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; 6. Institució Catalana de Recerca I Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain

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77 days

Bored Discs of Stone and Rain Control in Kaingo Game Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa

AuthorsLyn Wadley; Ghilraen Laue; Wim Biemond

Affiliations1. Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Wits, South Africa; 2. KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; 3. Rock Art Research Institute, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Wits, South Africa; 4. Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of South Africa, Tshwane, South Africa

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343 days

Iron Production in the Machile Valley: A Millennium of Variation and Innovation in Socio-technical Practice

AuthorsZachary McKeeby; Kenneth Luhila; Samuel Namunji Namunji

Affiliations1. Archaeology Department, New South Associates, Fairfax, USA; 2. Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; 3. Mutomena Combined School, Mutala, Zambia

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126 days

Pioneering African Archaeology from Within: A Conversation with Simiyu Wandibba

AuthorsChapurukha Makokha Kusimba

Affiliations1. University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

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120 days

Breaking Borders: The Medieval Archaeology of the Ethiopian-Somaliland Borderland

AuthorsJorge de Torres Rodríguez; Jorge Rouco Collazo; Valeria Leticia Franco Salvi; Manuel Antonio Franco Fernández; Mohamed Abdi Allamagen; Carolina Cornax Gómez; Mario Llorente García; Mesfin Getachew; Adrián de la Torre García; Juan Montegú; Worku Derara; Álvaro Minguito Palomares; Khalid Abdilahi Abdi

Affiliations1. Institute of Heritage Sciences, Spanish National Research Council, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; 2. IDH-CONICET, Córdoba, Argentina; 3. National Museum of Somaliland, Hargeisa, Somalia; 4. University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; 5. Ethiopian Heritage Authority, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; 6. University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain; 7. University of Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; 8. University of Castilla – La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain

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75 days

Lithic Techno-economics and OSL Chronology of the Later Stone Age at Chessungalane, Save River Valley, Mozambique

AuthorsOsama Samawi; Jeffrey I. Rose; Li Li; Ana Gomes; Daniel Martins; Elena Skosey-LaLonde; Gina M. Buckley; Ilona Benedetti; J. Michael Daniels; Jan-Pieter Buylaert; Jonathan A. Haws; Juma Nacuti Turquia; May Murungi; Michael M. Benedetti; Milena Carvalho; Milton Chirindza; Mussa Raja; Profina Júlio Mondlane; Sarah Marie Foley; Takalani A. Dubayi; Telma João Sipaneque; Nuno Bicho

Affiliations1. ICArEHB – The Interdisciplinary Centre for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal; 2. Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; 3. Department of Human Origins, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany; 4. Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (CIMA)—Infrastructure Network in Aquatic Research (ARNET), Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal; 5. University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, USA; 6. University of Denver, Denver, USA; 7. Baylor University, Waco, USA; 8. Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Roskilde, Denmark; 9. University of Louisville, Louisville, USA; 10. Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique; 11. Human Evolution Research Institute, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa; 12. Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, USA

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280 days

A Review of the Turkwel Tradition: Cultural Variability and Social Change in the First Millennium CE East Africa

AuthorsNik Petek-Sargeant

Affiliations1. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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150 days

Those Igbo-Ukwu Glass Beads: Morphology, Chemistry, Provenance, and Trade

AuthorsPeter Robertshaw; Marilee Wood; Laure Dussubieux; Abidemi Babatunde Babalola; Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff; Michael D. Glascock

Affiliations1. Department of Anthropology, California State University, San Bernardino, USA; 2. Independent Researcher, Friday Harbor, USA; 3. Elemental Analysis Facility, Field Museum, Chicago, USA; 4. The British Museum, London, UK; 5. School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; 6. Missouri University Research Reactor, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA

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72 days

Impaled and Displayed: Human Skull Manipulation and Mortuary Practices in the Prehispanic Canary Islands

AuthorsJavier Velasco-Vázquez; Verónica Alberto-Barroso; Teresa Delgado-Darias

Affiliations1. Servicio de Patrimonio Histórico, Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; 2. Tibicena Arqueología y Patrimonio, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; 3. El Museo Canario., Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

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103 days

Atbai Enclosure Burials: Monumentalism, Pastoralism and Environmental Change in the Mid-Holocene East Nubian Deserts

AuthorsJulien Cooper; Marie Bourgeois; Maël Crépy; Maria Carmela Gatto

Affiliations1. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia; 2. Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France; 3. CNRS, HiSoMA, Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée—Jean Pouilloux, Lyon, France; 4. Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

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