Daryl Stump

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compile archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data from East Africa to document land-cover change, and environmental, subsistence and land-use transitions over the past 6000 years.

TL;DR: Several recent discussions within archaeology refocus attention on the relationship between western knowledge and "indigenous knowledge" as discussed by the authors, one arising from the question of local ownership of land, technologies, and archaeological materials; another responding to the continued interest within development, conservation and ecology in the potential efficacy and sustainability of local resource-use strategies; and a third that explores the possibility of producing archaeological interpretations that incorporate local conceptions of the past.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on examples of indigenous intensive agriculture in eastern Africa and argue that relevant evidence of this sort is often unavailable or far from unambiguous, and that it is necessary to be critical of the ways in which perceptions of the past are invoked within these discourses, and to be aware of the strengths and weaknesses of historical arguments in this regard.

TL;DR: Engaruka as mentioned in this paper has been identified as the remains of a Late Iron Age, primarily arable, economy, comprising large areas of stone-bounded fields overlooked by a series of terraced settlements.

TL;DR: A case-study from the historic and extensive terraced landscape at Konso, southwest Ethiopia is presented, and it is demonstrated that the original topsoil and much of the subsoil was lost prior to the construction of hillside terraces.