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For Africa south of the Sahara, African archaeology is classified in a slightly different way, with the Paleolithic generally divided into the Early Stone Age, the Middle Stone Age, and the Later Stone Age. [6] [page needed] After these three stages come the Pastoral Neolithic, the Iron Age and then later historical periods.
South Africa portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Archaeologists from South Africa . This category is for archaeologists from the African country of South Africa .
Archaeologists of Africa Pages in category "Archaeologists of Africa" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Glynn Llywelyn Isaac (19 November 1937 – 5 October 1985) was a South African archaeologist who specialised in the very early prehistory of Africa, and was one of twin sons born to botanists William Edwyn Isaac and Frances Margaret Leighton. He has been called the most influential Africanist of the last half century, and his papers on human ...
Janette Deacon (née Buckland, born 25 November 1939) is a South African archaeologist specialising in heritage management and rock art conservation. She has studied the changes in stone tools from sites in the southern Cape in relation to climate change over the past 20,000 years.
This is a list of archaeologists – people who study or practise archaeology, the study of the human past through material remains. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Page dedicated to archaeological sites in Eastern Africa (as opposed to the study of Eastern African Archaeology itself). Eastern Africa is as defined by the UN (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, South Sudan, and Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Seychelles, and any islands off the coast)).
The archaeology of Igbo-Ukwu is the study of an archaeological site located in a town of the same name: Igbo-Ukwu, an Igbo town in Anambra State in southeastern Nigeria. As a result of these findings, three excavation areas at Igbo-Ukwu were opened in 1959 and 1964 by Charles Thurstan Shaw : Igbo Richard, Igbo Isaiah, and Igbo Jonah.