As our planet emerges into a new epoch in which humans dominate the Earth system, it is
imperative that societies initiate a new phase of responsible environmental stewardship …

Central to successful attempts to address food insecurity in Africa are understandings of the
historical contexts and meanings of food systems. However, much research into current …

Postmodernity has a distinctly pre‐apocalyptic feel to it, and this feeling has seeped into
archaeology. A review of the scholarship from 2019 attests that archaeologists are having to …

An urgency compels us to engage how archaeology relates to contemporary situations and
future dilemmas as citizens anxiously contemplate their futures. We see “crowd‐sourced” …

Despite the ethnographic importance of the Southeast Asian house and household, an
explicitly Southeast Asian “household archaeology” is still in its infancy. Nevertheless …

" Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733 Dominica, a place once described as
“Nature's Island,” was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the …

Biocultural heritage preservation relies on ethnobotanical knowledge and the
paleoethnobotanical data used in (re) constructing histories of human–biota interactions …

Why is it that archaeology—a discipline that deals with human experience over the long term—
is failing to achieve its potential in tackling global challenges? As Smith (2021) rightly …

Archaeology holds great potential to enrich and enhance culturally responsive school
learning within and beyond Africa. Archaeology reveals hidden and forgotten history and …

This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the African Archaeological Review (AAR). For
many people, 40 years represents the onset of middle age, but for an academic journal, this …