Africa under the microscope: What's new in techno-functional analyses in archaeology?

Social and Cultural Dynamics in North Africa During the Holocene: An Introduction

“…These include the "Peopling the Green Sahara" and "MedAfrica" projects funded by the British Leverhulme Trust, the IRN-"DECAPAN" funded by the French CNRS, the "Neo-Innova" project funded by the Spanish MICINN, the "Eastern Rif Project, Morocco" of the University of Cologne and the German Archaeological Institute, and the Collaborative Research Center 608 funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Archaeological science approaches, applied to freshly excavated materials and "cold cases" (Casanova et al 2020;Dunne et al 2012;Lucarini and Tomasso 2020;Perrin et al 2020), and the spatial analysis of easily-accessible large datasets, such as the published radiocarbon dates from the Mediterranean African sites (Broodbank and Lucarini 2019;, also added new insights. These studies have allowed a better re-evaluation of archaeological materials and samples from previous excavations stored in museums and laboratories.…”