Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction: An Idea of Ethnoarchaeology Part 2 History, People, and Land Chapter 3 A Brief History of Shuwa-Arab Expansion Chapter 4 The Study Area: Land, People, and Settlements Part 5 Semi-Permanent Settlements Chapter 6 The Southern Settlement Group Chapter 7 The Western Settlement Group Chapter 8 Two Northern Settlements Part 9 Dry Season Camps Chapter 10 The Amachita Camps Cluster Chapter 11 The Agedipse Camps Cluster Part 12 Permanent Settlements Chapter 13 Abouzrega Chapter 14 Djidat I Chapter 15 Djidat II Chapter 16 Marafaine Part 17 Patterns and Trends Chapter 18 Location Tactics, Space Allocation, and Sites Structure Chapter 19 Patterns in the Material Record Chapter 20 Patterns of Subsistence and Production Part 21 Conclusion: Toward a Shuwa-Arab Polity?

About the Author

Augustin F. C. Holl is Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican & African Studies at the University of Michigan and a curator at the University of Michigan's Museum of Anthropology. He the author of The Diwan Revisited: Literacy, State Formation, and the Rise of Kanuri Domination (AD 1200-1600) (2000) and (with M. S. Bisson, S. T. Childs, and P. de Barros) Ancient African Metallurgy: The Sociocultural Context (AltaMira, 2000)