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A True Picture? Colonial and Other Historical Archaeologies

scientific article published in 2004

A cache of hippopotamus ivory at Gao, Mali; and a hypothesis of its use

A note on a sewn canoe in use at Gao, the Republic of Mali

Adria La Violetie. Ethnoarchaeology in jene, Mali: craft and status among smiths, potters and masons (British Archaeological reports International series S838; Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 49. vi + 158 pages, 44 figures, 6 tables. 2000

scholarly article by Timothy Insoll published in March 2001

African materiality

Among the new Books

Ancestor Cults

Animal Economies and Islamic Conversion in Eastern Ethiopia: Zooarchaeological Analyses from Harlaa, Harar and Ganda Harla

Animism and Totemism

Archaeological research in Timbuktu, Mali

scholarly article by Timothy Insoll published in June 1998

Archaeology and the reconstruction of religious identity in Africa (and beyond)

scientific article published in January 2004

Archaeology, Ritual, Religion

book published in 2004

Archaeology, luxury and the exotic: the examples of Islamic Gao (Mali) and Bahrain

scholarly article by Rachel MacLean published in January 2003

Books Noted

Books Noted

scientific article published on 25 October 2010

Books Noted

scientific article published on 25 October 2011

Carnelian mines in Gujarat

scholarly article by Timothy Insoll & Kuldeep Bhan published September 2001 in Antiquity

Changing Identities in the Arabian Gulf: Archaeology, Religion, and Ethnicity in Context

scholarly article

Crossroads / Carrefour Sahel. Cultural and Technological Developments in First Millennium BC/AD West Africa. By Sonja Magnavita, Lassina Koté, Peter Breunig & Oumarou A. Idé (eds.). Journal of African Archaeology Monograph Series 2. Africa Magna Ve

Dariali: The “Caspian Gates” in the Caucasus from Antiquity to the Age of the Huns and the Middle Ages, The Joint Georgian-British Dariali Gorge Excavations and Surveys, 2013–2016, edited by E. W. Sauer. ⬇️

David Lewis-Williams. Conceiving God: the cognitive origin and evolution of religion. 320 pages, 50 illustrations. 2010. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-051641 hardback £18.95

Debating Religion

scientific article published in April 2005

Disentangling histories

scholarly article by Timothy Insoll published in May 2010

Early Islamic Bahrain

First Footsteps in the Archaeology of Harar, Ethiopia

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

Focus on Islam III: Archaeology and Islamic identities in Bahrain

scholarly article by Timothy Insoll published in September 2005

Fragmentary Ancestors? Medicine, Bodies, and Personhood in a Koma Mound, Northern Ghana

research work

Gao and Igbo-Ukwu: Beads, interregional trade, and beyond

scholarly article by Timothy Insoll published in March 1997

Glass Beads from Medieval Gao (Mali): New Analytical Data on Chronology, Sources, and Trade

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Guest Editor’s Preface

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

Identities and Archaeological Heritage Preservation at the Crossroads: Understanding the Challenges of Economic Development at Tengzug, Upper East Region, Ghana ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2010

Indigenous cosmology, art forms and past medicinal practices: towards an interpretation of ancient Koma Land sites in northern Ghana

scientific article

Insights into Past Ritual Practice at Yikpabongo, Northern Region, Ghana

research work

Introduction. Shrines, substances and medicine in sub-Saharan Africa: archaeological, anthropological, and historical perspectives

scientific article

Introduction: Ritual and Religion in Archaeological Perspective

Iron Age Gao: an archaeological contribution

scholarly article by Timothy Insoll published in 1997

Islam, Archaeology and History: Gao Region (Mali) ca. AD 900-1250

book published in 1996

Islam, archaeology and history, a complex relationship: the Gao Region (Mali) ca.AD 900-1250

doctoral thesis by Timothy Insoll

John Amyas Alexander (1922–2010): an appreciation

scientific article published in December 2010

Local Ceramics from the Islamic Trade Center of Harlaa, Eastern Ethiopia: Markers of Chronology and Contacts ⬇️

scientific article published on 24 May 2021

Looting the antiquities of Mali: the story continues at Gao

article published in 1993

MARK HORTON. Shanga: the archaeology of a Muslim trading community on the coast of East Africa. xvi+458 pages, 131 plates, 307 figures, 30 tables. 1996. London: British Institute in Eastern Africa; 1-872566-09-X hardback £75

article

Marine Shell Working at Harlaa, Ethiopia, and the Implications for Red Sea Trade

scientific article published on 26 January 2021

Materiality, belief, ritual—archaeology and material religion: an introduction ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2009

Materializing performance and ritual: decoding the archaeology of movement in tallensi shrines in northern ghana ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2009

Meyer Fortes and material culture: the published image and the unpublished resource

scientific article published on 5 August 2010

Monitoring Islamic Archaeological Landscapes in Ethiopia Using Open Source Satellite Imagery

scientific article

Negotiating the archaeology of destiny

scholarly article by T Kankpeyeng Insoll published in October 2008

Ngandu and Ngambezi

scientific article published in January 1997

Organic geochemical analysis of archaeological medicine pots from Northern Ghana. The multi-functionality of pottery

scientific article

Oursi hu-beero. A Medieval House Complex in Burkina Faso, West Africa. By L.P. Petit, M. von Czerniewicz, and C. Pelzer (eds.). Sidestone Press, Leiden, 2011, 288 pp. ISBN 978-90-8890-067-9. € 34.95 (Paperback)

P. Breunig (ed.). Nok: African sculpture in archaeological context. 2014. 303 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Frankfurt am Main: Africa Magna Verlag; 978-3-937248-46-2 paperback €49.80

article

Recherches archéologiques à Adoulis (Érythrée), by F. Anfray and C. Zazzaro. Presses Universitaires du Midi 2016. 116pp., Illustrations and maps. Pb. €23. ISBN-13: 9782810704668.

Reconstructing the archaeology of movement in northern Ghana: Insights into past ritual posture and performance

research work

Religion, Material Culture and Archaeology

scholarly article by Timothy Insoll published in July 2015

Review of N. David. Performance and Agency: The DGB Sites of Northern Cameroon

scholarly article by Timothy Insoll published in June 2009

Ritual complexity in a past community revealed by ancient DNA analysis of pre-colonial terracotta items from Northern Ghana

scholarly article by Heather A. Robinson et al published March 2017 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Sacrifice

Sada Mire: Divine Fertility: The Continuity in Transformation of an Ideology of Sacred Kinship in Northeast Africa ⬇️

Shrine Franchising and the Neolithic in the British Isles: Some Observations based upon the Tallensi, Northern Ghana

scholarly article by Timothy Insoll published June 2006 in Cambridge Archaeological Journal

Substance and materiality? The archaeology of Talensi medicine shrines and medicinal practices ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2011

Sub‐Saharan Africa

Talensi animal sacrifice and its archaeological implications

scholarly article by Timothy Insoll published in June 2010

The Archaeology of Islam

book published in 1999

The Archaeology of Ritual, edited by Evangelos Kyriakidis, 2007. Los Angeles (CA): Cotsen Institute of Archaeology; ISBN-13 978-1-931745-47-5 paperback £30 & US$40; ISBN-13 978-1-931745-48-2 £55 & US$70, xii+319 pp., 55 figs

scientific article published in February 2009

The Archaeology of Shrines among the Tallensi of Northern Ghana: Materiality and Interpretive Relevance

research work

The External Creation of the Western Sahel's Past: The Use and Abuse of the Arabic Sources

article published in 1994

The Iron Age Ceramics from the Tong Hills, Northern Ghana. Sequence and Comparative Perspective

scientific article published in June 2011

The Mosques of Harar: An Archaeological and Historical Study

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

The Tension between Communities, Development, and Archaeological Heritage Preservation

article

The archaeology of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa: A review

article

The archaeology of disease: molluscs as potential disease indicators in Bahrain

scholarly article by Timothy Insoll published in December 2005

The composition and origin of Ghana medicine clays

scientific article (publication date: August 2011)

The new hakodate jomon culture center, minamikayabe, japan

scientific article (publication date: June 2012)

The origins of Timbuktu

The social context of food technology in Iron Age Gao, Mali

scientific article published in June 1999

Timothy R. Pauketat. An archaeology of the cosmos: rethinking agency and religion in ancient America. xv+230 pages, 85 b&w illustrations, 8 tables. 2013. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-0-415-52128-4 hardback; 978-0-415-52129-1 paperback £ 24.99

scholarly article by Timothy Insoll published in December 2013

Towards an understanding of the carnelian bead trade from Western India to sub-Saharan Africa: the application of UV-LA-ICP-MS to carnelian from Gujarat, India, and West Africa

article

‘Natural’ or ‘Human’ Spaces? Tallensi Sacred Groves and Shrines and their Potential Implications for Aspects of Northern European Prehistory and Phenomenological Interpretation

scholarly article by Timothy Insoll published in October 2007

“Becoming Muslim”: A Comparative Archaeological Approach to the Material Markers of Islam in the Niger Bend, Mali and Eastern Ethiopia ⬇️

scientific article published on 31 March 2023

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