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Introduction -- The emergence of humankind in Africa -- The consolidation of basic human culture -- Regional diversification and specialisation -- The beginnings of permanent settlement -- Early farmers -- Iron-using peoples before AD 1000 -- The second millennium AD in sub-Saharan Africa.

Archaeology has long been the handmaiden of classical historians, but as some recent articles by Rudy Kousbroek in the Dutch newspaper, N.R.C.-Handelsblad have shown, colonial water towers built only 50 years ago n i Sumatra now look as if they might have fed the Baths of Caracalla. Hence, the time has obviously come for the classicists to share their maiden with us. Some of our readers are already engaged in archaeology, both on land and on the sea, and we expect to bring you frequent articles on the subject. The first three follow.

This article proposes a mode of analysis drawing from historical institutionalism and American political development but that is generated more organically from within the study of law. This approach, legal archaeology, focuses on the production of legal discourse while attending to the institutional boundaries and conditions around this production. Legal archaeology is particularly useful for understanding the role of law in constructing subordinated identities. Illuminating legal struggles over the boundaries of subordinated identities facilitates consideration of how subordination is institutionalized, though archaeology maintains legal institutions at the center of the analysis. The article concludes with examples of the analysis.

▪ Abstract  "Mission archaeology" is a novel conjunction of terms devised to focus attention on an archaeology of mission sites, and thereby on the light that can be shed on the process of the Christianization of the Americas by examining the material culture of missions. Discussion centers on a summary of mission research in the Spanish-occupied territories of North America and Mayan Mesoamerica. I then draw conclusions from these data, and from anthropological and historical analyses of mission encounters, to suggest where mission studies should be headed and the role that archaeology can play in expanding our knowledge of the mission transformation.

Barker reviews 'Archaeology Africa' by Martin Hall.

This introductory article gives a history of the research on archaeological bread from the nineteenth century until recently. The different aspects that are relevant to adequate analysis & the correct interpretation of bread remains are discussed with a particular stress on future prospectives. 26 References. Adapted from the source document.

Gender Archaeology. Marie Louise Stig Sørensen. Oxford: Polity, 2000. 236 pp.

Andean Archaeology. Helaine Silverman, ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. 342 pp.