C Ashley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4438706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Ashley |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ashley |
| SIGNATURE | ASHLEY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1243-3183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Foragers Downstream of Mapungubwe: The Cultural Sequence and Chronology of Skirbeek Shelter, South Africa
In recent decades, interest in the Later Stone Age of the Mapungubwe region has increased. Here, we present the results of an investigation from a shelter downstream from Mapungubwe called Skirbeek. The shelter is in a sandstone koppie (tor) adjacent to another that was occupied in the 19th century a.d. by a Venda community. Radiocarbon results show three primary occupation phases in the mid-Holocene, final millennium b.c., and mid–late 2nd mille…
Social Landscapes of Euphorbia Kop: A K2 Farmer Settlement with a Forager Presence in Southern Africa
Holocene foragers in southern Africa were mobile, stone-tool-using, hunting and gathering communities that lived in rock shelters and in the open in temporary campsites. From the early 1st millennium a.d., farmer groups migrated into southern Africa and introduced domesticated crops, livestock, and metal technology into the region and lived in fixed homesteads. Differences in the material culture and residential habits of these two communities ar…
Berkenrode: Archaeological insights on the history of a 20th century artisanal mine in the Limpopo Valley
Narratives about South African industrialisation, especially regarding the mining sector, have not paid adequate attention to small scale (artisanal) mining operations and the communities who worked them. This article reports on the archaeology of the artisanal copper mining site Berkenrode, also known as MNR211, located on the farm Berkenrode 45 MT, close to Musina in the extreme north of the Limpopo Province. Material culture from the site sugg…
(Re)making Landscape and Place: An Archaeology of the Lake Ngami Mission (1893-96), Khwebe Hills, Botswana
Nineteenth-century missionaries to southern Africa sought materially to remake and reshape the peoples and places they encountered according to notions of virtuous living, correct behaviour and Christian morality. This article explores attitudes to landscape and place in a short-lived London Missionary Society mission in the Khwebe Hills of Ngamiland, Botswana, which was occupied between 1893 and 1896. Combining archaeological evidence with archi…
Characterisation of archaeological ceramics from the Khwebe Hills of northern Botswana
Mobility and African archaeology: An Introduction
The mobilities turn and archaeology: New perspectives on socio-political complexity in thirteenth-century northern South Africa
This paper applies insights from the ‘mobilities turn’ (Hannam et al. 2006 Hannam, K., Sheller, M. and Urry, J. 2006. “Editorial: mobilities, immobilities and moorings.” Mobilities 1: 1–22.[Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) or ‘new mobilities paradigm’ (Sheller and Urry 2006 Sheller, M. and Urry, J. 2006. “The new mobilities paradigm.” Environment and Planning A 38: 207–226. doi: 10.1068/a37268[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google S…
Archaeological ceramics from eastern Africa: Past Approaches and Future Directions
Ceramics are an essential part of the Holocene archaeology of eastern Africa and the development of increasingly complex typologies has rightly played a key role in our understanding of chronology and social identity. However, this focus on taxonomies can also be restrictive, as we lose sight of the communities who made and used the ceramics in our endless search to classify and re-classify ceramics. Focusing on ceramics from the Great Lakes and …
The Iron Age Ceramics from the Tong Hills, Northern Ghana. Sequence and Comparative Perspective
The archaeology of Ghana north of 10 degrees remains little known, thus between 2004 and 2009 archaeological research was completed in the Tong Hills, the home of the Talensi ethno-linguistic group. An overview of the research is presented here with especial emphasis placed on the ceramic traditions and chronology. These are contextualised within the archaeology of the wider region of northern Ghana
Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites in Sub-Saharan Africa
Towards a Socialised Archaeology of Ceramics in Great Lakes Africa
Holocene hunter-fisher-gatherer communities: New perspectives on Kansyore Using communities of Western Kenya
In this study we present new data on Kansyore-ceramic using hunter-gatherers from four sites in western Kenya and argue that their specialist fishing economy and pattern of seasonal mobility indicates that they were moderate delayed-return hunter-gatherers. In particular, we recognise the importance of developing a more secure chronology for these Holocene communities, as well as a unified ceramic typology/methodology. Using evidence from Siror, …
Movements, borders, and identities in Africa
Migration, missionaries and contact: Recent archaeological research in the Khwebe Hills, Botswana
Field survey and excavation in the Khwebe Hills of Botswana form part of a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship project on the Archaeology of Migrations in Africa. Here, the BA Postdoctoral Fellow describes the first two seasons of fieldwork, which concentrated on the investigation of two sites, one associated with the BaTawana, who migrated into the area in the early 19th century and the other a missionary establishment of the London Missiona…
A reconsideration of the figures from Luzira
A context for the Luzira Head
The Luzira head, a pottery figure discovered in a Ugandan prison compound in 1929, has remained curiously anonymous ever since. New archaeological work on the northern shores of (Lake) Victoria Nyanza has defined a formative period of political centralisation at the end of the first millennium AD. The authors show that this period of early to late Iron Age transition is where this remarkable object and related figurative material belongs. This ha…
The transition to farming in eastern Africa: New faunal and dating evidence from Wadh Lang'o and Usenge, Kenya
The exploratory investigation of two sites in Kenya throws new light on the transition from a 'stone age' to an 'iron age'. The model of widespread cultural replacement by Bantu-speaking iron producers is questioned and instead the authors propose a long interaction with regional variations. In matters of lithics, ceramics, hunting, gathering, husbandry and cooking, East African people created local and eclectic packages of change between 1500BC …
African Archaeology: A Critical Introduction
New Dates for Kansyore and Urewe Wares from Northern Nyanza, Kenya
"Mixing it Up at "Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of Africa
Africa '05
Archaeology on Lolui Island, Uganda 1964–5
Holocene hunter-fisher-gatherer communities: New perspectives on Kansyore Using communities of Western Kenya
In this study we present new data on Kansyore-ceramic using hunter-gatherers from four sites in western Kenya and argue that their specialist fishing economy and pattern of seasonal mobility indicates that they were moderate delayed-return hunter-gatherers. In particular, we recognise the importance of developing a more secure chronology for these Holocene communities, as well as a unified ceramic typology/methodology. Using evidence from Siror, …
The transition to farming in eastern Africa: New faunal and dating evidence from Wadh Lang'o and Usenge, Kenya
The exploratory investigation of two sites in Kenya throws new light on the transition from a 'stone age' to an 'iron age'. The model of widespread cultural replacement by Bantu-speaking iron producers is questioned and instead the authors propose a long interaction with regional variations. In matters of lithics, ceramics, hunting, gathering, husbandry and cooking, East African people created local and eclectic packages of change between 1500BC …
Towards a Socialised Archaeology of Ceramics in Great Lakes Africa
Archaeological ceramics from eastern Africa: Past Approaches and Future Directions
Ceramics are an essential part of the Holocene archaeology of eastern Africa and the development of increasingly complex typologies has rightly played a key role in our understanding of chronology and social identity. However, this focus on taxonomies can also be restrictive, as we lose sight of the communities who made and used the ceramics in our endless search to classify and re-classify ceramics. Focusing on ceramics from the Great Lakes and …
Mobility and African archaeology: An Introduction
Archaeology on Lolui Island, Uganda 1964–5
New Dates for Kansyore and Urewe Wares from Northern Nyanza, Kenya
The mobilities turn and archaeology: New perspectives on socio-political complexity in thirteenth-century northern South Africa
This paper applies insights from the ‘mobilities turn’ (Hannam et al. 2006 Hannam, K., Sheller, M. and Urry, J. 2006. “Editorial: mobilities, immobilities and moorings.” Mobilities 1: 1–22.[Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) or ‘new mobilities paradigm’ (Sheller and Urry 2006 Sheller, M. and Urry, J. 2006. “The new mobilities paradigm.” Environment and Planning A 38: 207–226. doi: 10.1068/a37268[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google S…
Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites in Sub-Saharan Africa
A reconsideration of the figures from Luzira
A context for the Luzira Head
The Luzira head, a pottery figure discovered in a Ugandan prison compound in 1929, has remained curiously anonymous ever since. New archaeological work on the northern shores of (Lake) Victoria Nyanza has defined a formative period of political centralisation at the end of the first millennium AD. The authors show that this period of early to late Iron Age transition is where this remarkable object and related figurative material belongs. This ha…
Foragers Downstream of Mapungubwe: The Cultural Sequence and Chronology of Skirbeek Shelter, South Africa
In recent decades, interest in the Later Stone Age of the Mapungubwe region has increased. Here, we present the results of an investigation from a shelter downstream from Mapungubwe called Skirbeek. The shelter is in a sandstone koppie (tor) adjacent to another that was occupied in the 19th century a.d. by a Venda community. Radiocarbon results show three primary occupation phases in the mid-Holocene, final millennium b.c., and mid–late 2nd mille…
Social Landscapes of Euphorbia Kop: A K2 Farmer Settlement with a Forager Presence in Southern Africa
Holocene foragers in southern Africa were mobile, stone-tool-using, hunting and gathering communities that lived in rock shelters and in the open in temporary campsites. From the early 1st millennium a.d., farmer groups migrated into southern Africa and introduced domesticated crops, livestock, and metal technology into the region and lived in fixed homesteads. Differences in the material culture and residential habits of these two communities ar…
Characterisation of archaeological ceramics from the Khwebe Hills of northern Botswana
The Iron Age Ceramics from the Tong Hills, Northern Ghana. Sequence and Comparative Perspective
The archaeology of Ghana north of 10 degrees remains little known, thus between 2004 and 2009 archaeological research was completed in the Tong Hills, the home of the Talensi ethno-linguistic group. An overview of the research is presented here with especial emphasis placed on the ceramic traditions and chronology. These are contextualised within the archaeology of the wider region of northern Ghana
"Mixing it Up at "Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of Africa
Africa '05
Archaeology on Lolui Island, Uganda 1964–5
African Archaeology: A Critical Introduction
New Dates for Kansyore and Urewe Wares from Northern Nyanza, Kenya
The transition to farming in eastern Africa: New faunal and dating evidence from Wadh Lang'o and Usenge, Kenya
The exploratory investigation of two sites in Kenya throws new light on the transition from a 'stone age' to an 'iron age'. The model of widespread cultural replacement by Bantu-speaking iron producers is questioned and instead the authors propose a long interaction with regional variations. In matters of lithics, ceramics, hunting, gathering, husbandry and cooking, East African people created local and eclectic packages of change between 1500BC …
Migration, missionaries and contact: Recent archaeological research in the Khwebe Hills, Botswana
Field survey and excavation in the Khwebe Hills of Botswana form part of a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship project on the Archaeology of Migrations in Africa. Here, the BA Postdoctoral Fellow describes the first two seasons of fieldwork, which concentrated on the investigation of two sites, one associated with the BaTawana, who migrated into the area in the early 19th century and the other a missionary establishment of the London Missiona…
A reconsideration of the figures from Luzira
A context for the Luzira Head
The Luzira head, a pottery figure discovered in a Ugandan prison compound in 1929, has remained curiously anonymous ever since. New archaeological work on the northern shores of (Lake) Victoria Nyanza has defined a formative period of political centralisation at the end of the first millennium AD. The authors show that this period of early to late Iron Age transition is where this remarkable object and related figurative material belongs. This ha…
Towards a Socialised Archaeology of Ceramics in Great Lakes Africa
Holocene hunter-fisher-gatherer communities: New perspectives on Kansyore Using communities of Western Kenya
In this study we present new data on Kansyore-ceramic using hunter-gatherers from four sites in western Kenya and argue that their specialist fishing economy and pattern of seasonal mobility indicates that they were moderate delayed-return hunter-gatherers. In particular, we recognise the importance of developing a more secure chronology for these Holocene communities, as well as a unified ceramic typology/methodology. Using evidence from Siror, …
Movements, borders, and identities in Africa
The Iron Age Ceramics from the Tong Hills, Northern Ghana. Sequence and Comparative Perspective
The archaeology of Ghana north of 10 degrees remains little known, thus between 2004 and 2009 archaeological research was completed in the Tong Hills, the home of the Talensi ethno-linguistic group. An overview of the research is presented here with especial emphasis placed on the ceramic traditions and chronology. These are contextualised within the archaeology of the wider region of northern Ghana
Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites in Sub-Saharan Africa
Archaeological ceramics from eastern Africa: Past Approaches and Future Directions
Ceramics are an essential part of the Holocene archaeology of eastern Africa and the development of increasingly complex typologies has rightly played a key role in our understanding of chronology and social identity. However, this focus on taxonomies can also be restrictive, as we lose sight of the communities who made and used the ceramics in our endless search to classify and re-classify ceramics. Focusing on ceramics from the Great Lakes and …
Characterisation of archaeological ceramics from the Khwebe Hills of northern Botswana
Mobility and African archaeology: An Introduction
The mobilities turn and archaeology: New perspectives on socio-political complexity in thirteenth-century northern South Africa
This paper applies insights from the ‘mobilities turn’ (Hannam et al. 2006 Hannam, K., Sheller, M. and Urry, J. 2006. “Editorial: mobilities, immobilities and moorings.” Mobilities 1: 1–22.[Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) or ‘new mobilities paradigm’ (Sheller and Urry 2006 Sheller, M. and Urry, J. 2006. “The new mobilities paradigm.” Environment and Planning A 38: 207–226. doi: 10.1068/a37268[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google S…
(Re)making Landscape and Place: An Archaeology of the Lake Ngami Mission (1893-96), Khwebe Hills, Botswana
Nineteenth-century missionaries to southern Africa sought materially to remake and reshape the peoples and places they encountered according to notions of virtuous living, correct behaviour and Christian morality. This article explores attitudes to landscape and place in a short-lived London Missionary Society mission in the Khwebe Hills of Ngamiland, Botswana, which was occupied between 1893 and 1896. Combining archaeological evidence with archi…
Berkenrode: Archaeological insights on the history of a 20th century artisanal mine in the Limpopo Valley
Narratives about South African industrialisation, especially regarding the mining sector, have not paid adequate attention to small scale (artisanal) mining operations and the communities who worked them. This article reports on the archaeology of the artisanal copper mining site Berkenrode, also known as MNR211, located on the farm Berkenrode 45 MT, close to Musina in the extreme north of the Limpopo Province. Material culture from the site sugg…
Social Landscapes of Euphorbia Kop: A K2 Farmer Settlement with a Forager Presence in Southern Africa
Holocene foragers in southern Africa were mobile, stone-tool-using, hunting and gathering communities that lived in rock shelters and in the open in temporary campsites. From the early 1st millennium a.d., farmer groups migrated into southern Africa and introduced domesticated crops, livestock, and metal technology into the region and lived in fixed homesteads. Differences in the material culture and residential habits of these two communities ar…
Foragers Downstream of Mapungubwe: The Cultural Sequence and Chronology of Skirbeek Shelter, South Africa
In recent decades, interest in the Later Stone Age of the Mapungubwe region has increased. Here, we present the results of an investigation from a shelter downstream from Mapungubwe called Skirbeek. The shelter is in a sandstone koppie (tor) adjacent to another that was occupied in the 19th century a.d. by a Venda community. Radiocarbon results show three primary occupation phases in the mid-Holocene, final millennium b.c., and mid–late 2nd mille…
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