The course is available at the UAB-Coursera platform and is divided in 4 modules:
Module 1: Introduction, including introduction to archaeology and African archaeology, and geographical settings.
Module 2: Methods, including introduction to chronology and methods; fieldwork (archaeological survey: ground, aerial, subsurface reconnaissance, and using mobile applications); Lab work (archaeobotany: the study of charcoal and the study of pollen; animal bones: Technology and function; Lithic technology and micromorphology; Introduction to the study of pottery and archaeometry; zooarchaeology); human remains (biological anthropology and archaeogenetic); and Rock art.
Module 3: Heritage management, including introduction to heritage management, conservation and presentation, local development, and community-based management.
Module 4: Case studies, putting together the knowledge acquire in the previous modules the case studies bring to live in a practical way, what the students have been learning. The case studies are presented by researchers working in different regions in Africa: • Contacts of hunter-gatherers and early farming communities in today’s Southern Mozambique, Changalane, Mozambique, by Jörg Linstädter, German Archaeological Institute, and Décio Muianga, Eduardo Mondlane University. • Cultivated Landscapes - Archaeobotanical research in the West African Savanna, by Alexa Höhn, Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. • De-greening of the Sahara - Archaeobotanical research in Northern Chad, Michèlle Diniez, German Archaeological Institute, in Berlin, Germany. • The Stone Age of Mozambique: Niassa & Massingir, Nuno Bicho, ICArEhB, Algarve University, Portugal.
