Ancestor Cults

scholarly chapter

Animism and Totemism

Archaeology, Ritual, Religion

book published in 2004

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

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

research work

Introduction: Ritual and Religion in Archaeological Perspective

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

book published in 1996

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

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

Sacrifice

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

Sub‐Saharan Africa

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

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