Jonathan Walz
Biographic Data
| ID | 92911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Walz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Walz |
| SIGNATURE | WALZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ph.D., Academic Director, sit-Zanzibar Program, Stone Town, Tanzania [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Africa’s Cultural Crossroads: Archaeological Evidence for Ritual Syncretism in Western Uganda from Western Kansyore, Transitional Urewe, and Bigo-Period Burials
Archaeological research in the Ndali Crater Lakes Region (NCLR) in western Uganda has contributed significant insights into first millennium AD multilingual communities. These diverse communities, sharing food ways, ceramic technologies, and ritual beliefs, are traced to Bantu speakers who interacted with Sudanic speakers who made Kansyore ceramics. One of the significant exchanges of cultural beliefs was the adoption of Kansyore burial urns by B…
Visualizing Empire in Africa: Postage Stamps and Stationery Letterheads as Sites of Affiliation and Subversion
Before the website and the text emoji, the postage stamp and the letterhead adorned written communications. The expansion of the post created a system in which the British Empire (like other states and empires), through these forms, was lent visual presence. Here, an historian and an archaeologist investigate the tableaux of this mundane imperial optic. Increasing literate agency, commerce, and tourism placed stamps and printed letterheads throug…
Early inland entanglement in the Swahili world, c. 750–1550 ce
Early inland entanglement in the Swahili world, c. 750–1550 ce - 1
Inland Connectivity in Ancient Tanzania
This research note emphasizes human entanglement inland of the East African marine coastal fringe, but tied to it and to the Swahili World, c. ad 750-1550. Social, economic, political, and ritual intersections developed between late pre-urban/urban communities and their countrysides.1 Stone towns on the Swahili Coast administered countrysides, produced and marketed items for long-distance exchange, and emulated elite Islamic ritual and religious …
The ancient Red Sea port of Adulis and the Eritrean coastal region: Previous Investigations and Museum Collections
Eritrea has a remarkable, but understudied, archaeological past. During the first millennium AD, urban centres on the southern Red Sea coast of Africa developed ties to far-flung powers like Rome a
Historical archaeologies of spatial practices and power
Archaeologists who employ regional landscapes as an organising principle tend to be more concerned about how landscapes-natural, built and imagined-reflect cultural values than how landscapes shape human relations and community perspectives. As the authors of these two volumes skilfully demonstrate, communities deploy landscapes to materialise, and even to naturalise, claims to political authority and power. They reveal how the study of landscape…
Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa Edited by Ferdinand de Jong and Michael Rowlands
Inland Connectivity in Ancient Tanzania
This research note emphasizes human entanglement inland of the East African marine coastal fringe, but tied to it and to the Swahili World, c. ad 750-1550. Social, economic, political, and ritual intersections developed between late pre-urban/urban communities and their countrysides.1 Stone towns on the Swahili Coast administered countrysides, produced and marketed items for long-distance exchange, and emulated elite Islamic ritual and religious …
Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa Edited by Ferdinand de Jong and Michael Rowlands
The ancient Red Sea port of Adulis and the Eritrean coastal region: Previous Investigations and Museum Collections
Eritrea has a remarkable, but understudied, archaeological past. During the first millennium AD, urban centres on the southern Red Sea coast of Africa developed ties to far-flung powers like Rome a
Historical archaeologies of spatial practices and power
Archaeologists who employ regional landscapes as an organising principle tend to be more concerned about how landscapes-natural, built and imagined-reflect cultural values than how landscapes shape human relations and community perspectives. As the authors of these two volumes skilfully demonstrate, communities deploy landscapes to materialise, and even to naturalise, claims to political authority and power. They reveal how the study of landscape…
Early inland entanglement in the Swahili world, c. 750–1550 ce
Early inland entanglement in the Swahili world, c. 750–1550 ce - 1
Inland Connectivity in Ancient Tanzania
This research note emphasizes human entanglement inland of the East African marine coastal fringe, but tied to it and to the Swahili World, c. ad 750-1550. Social, economic, political, and ritual intersections developed between late pre-urban/urban communities and their countrysides.1 Stone towns on the Swahili Coast administered countrysides, produced and marketed items for long-distance exchange, and emulated elite Islamic ritual and religious …
Africa’s Cultural Crossroads: Archaeological Evidence for Ritual Syncretism in Western Uganda from Western Kansyore, Transitional Urewe, and Bigo-Period Burials
Archaeological research in the Ndali Crater Lakes Region (NCLR) in western Uganda has contributed significant insights into first millennium AD multilingual communities. These diverse communities, sharing food ways, ceramic technologies, and ritual beliefs, are traced to Bantu speakers who interacted with Sudanic speakers who made Kansyore ceramics. One of the significant exchanges of cultural beliefs was the adoption of Kansyore burial urns by B…
Visualizing Empire in Africa: Postage Stamps and Stationery Letterheads as Sites of Affiliation and Subversion
Before the website and the text emoji, the postage stamp and the letterhead adorned written communications. The expansion of the post created a system in which the British Empire (like other states and empires), through these forms, was lent visual presence. Here, an historian and an archaeologist investigate the tableaux of this mundane imperial optic. Increasing literate agency, commerce, and tourism placed stamps and printed letterheads throug…
Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works)