The Carboneras Beach archaeological site on Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea): old data and new stories about a unique culture

Clist, Bernard-Olivier; Maret, Pierre de

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“…First, the complete absence of metal ores meant, as we have seen, that Indigenous Canarian technology was lithic based. Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea off the west coast of central Africa presents precisely the same situation, settlement of an island by a population that was certainly using metal in the first instance, but that subsequently eschewed contact with the mainland and used only stone at European contact (Clist and de Maret 2021). Such rare instances of technological "devolution" merit focused attention from archaeologists, not least in understanding the choices made and solutions adopted as new contingencies took hold.…”

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Archaeological Research in the Canary Islands: Island Archaeology off Africa’s Atlantic Coast

Mitchell

2023

J Archaeol Res

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Island archaeology is a well-established field within the wider discipline, but African contributions to it remain scarce. The Canary Islands are unusual in the broader African context for their relatively long history of occupation (~2000 years) and the intensity with which archaeological research has been, and is, undertaken there. Much of that research, however, has focused on specifically Canarian issues, including efforts to demonstrate connections between the islands’ initial settlement and the Classical Mediterranean world. Relatively little of it has been conducted within the broader comparative framework that an island archaeology perspective provides. Additionally, much of the Canarian literature is not directly accessible to non-Hispanophones. In response, I synthesize what is currently known about the archaeology of the Canary Islands, focusing on determining when, how, and by whom they were first settled; the impacts of human settlement on their environments; inter-island variability in precolonial subsistence, social, and political trajectories; and the record left by European contact and subsequent colonization, which began in the 14th century AD. As well as pointing to further opportunities for research within the archipelago, I simultaneously map out several areas where archaeological work there could contribute to wider debates in island archaeology as a whole.

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Archaeological Research in the Canary Islands: Island Archaeology off Africa’s Atlantic Coast

Mitchell

2023

J Archaeol Res

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“…There the Sanaga River plunged into the forests eventually reaching the marshy shores behind the beaches at the foot of the mountains facing the island of Bioko and ringing the island as well. 63 Marshes were good for fishing, so we suspect the speakers of the Mbam-Bubi branch of languages who went this way emphasized fishwork, while the main 57 See map in Kahlheber, Bostoen, and Neumann, 'Early plant cultivation', 260. For Urewe-associated cereal and pulse agricultures in Rwanda, see J. Giblin and D. Fuller, 'First and second millennium A.D. agriculture in Rwanda: archaeobotanical finds and radiocarbon dates from seven sites', Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 20 (2011), 253-65, esp.…”

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Moving Histories: Bantu Language Expansions, Eclectic Economies, and Mobilities

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Vansina

2023

J. Afr. Hist.

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This essay interprets a classification of Africa's Bantu languages which used statistical tools guided by assumptions about farming and its chronology to analyze fresh vocabulary evidence. It shows a peeling movement from Cameroon's grassfields, into southern Cameroon, then along a savanna corridor through West Central Africa's rainforests, into the Savannahs, then to Southern Africa, the Great Lakes, and Indian Ocean coast. The clear sequence of movement masks methodological and historical factors. Language death, multilingualism, and the limits of vocabulary evidence restrain the classification's authority. ‘Transformations’ from food collecting to food producing or from no metals to full engagement with metals were mutable, unfolded at different speeds, and involved interactions with firstcomers. In Central Africa, Bantu speakers were often the first farmers and metal-users in the region but elsewhere they were commonly neither. Their arrivals did not immediately displace firstcomers. Computational methods can accommodate many of these issues.

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First Archaeological Excavations Along the Atlantic Ocean Coastline of the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Iron Age Sites at Muanda

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The Carboneras Beach archaeological site on Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea): old data and new stories about a unique culture

Abstract: Cameroun avant d'émigrer, peut-être il y a 2000 ans, sur l'île. Compte tenu du développement rapide des infrastructures tant à

Cited by 5 publications

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Archaeological Research in the Canary Islands: Island Archaeology off Africa’s Atlantic Coast

Archaeological Research in the Canary Islands: Island Archaeology off Africa’s Atlantic Coast

Moving Histories: Bantu Language Expansions, Eclectic Economies, and Mobilities

First Archaeological Excavations Along the Atlantic Ocean Coastline of the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Iron Age Sites at Muanda

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