A context for the Luzira Head

Bibliographic Data

ID4937530
AuthorsAndrew Reid (0000-0002-8550-7518, University College London), Ceri Z Ashley, C Ashley (0000-0002-1243-3183)
Year2008
Volume82
Issue315
Pages99-112
Publication date2008-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003598x00096472
OpenAlexW2300911763
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited17

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 has implications both for the formation of kingdoms in Uganda and for the story of African art more generally

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology) · Ethnology · Formative assessment · Genealogy · Geography · Head (geology) · Kingdom · Literal and figurative language · Object (grammar) · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Pottery · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub