Excavating the town ruins of Essouk-Tadmekka (Republic of Mali, West Africa): a new archaeological investigation of the Early Islamic Trans-Saharan trade
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Cultural resource management in Africa: challenges, dangers and opportunities
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Dhar Néma: from early agriculture to metallurgy in southeastern Mauritania
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L'île de Sanjé ya Kati (Kilwa, Tanzanie): un mythe Shirâzi bien réel
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‘I'm not evil': pots and the politics of poverty in the Eastern Zone of Tigray Region in the northern highlands of Ethiopia
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Earliest use of fire: an interdisciplinary evaluation
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Beyond furnaces and slags: a review study of bellows and their role in indigenous African metallurgical processes
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