The Fifth International Workshop for African Archaeobotany was held 3-5 July, 2006
at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

WEB LINKS for AFRICAN ARCHAEOBOTANY

On line sources relevant to archaeobotanical research in African are limited. A few useful sources are gathered below....Please alert us to others you think we have missed.

• The next conference: IWAA 6. June 2009, Cairo

• Departmnet of African Archaeology and Archaeobotany, University of Frankfurt am Main
  
• Dr Marijke van der Veen, Professor of Archaeobotany, University of Leicester
  (with recent research in Egypt)
• Dr. Catherine D'Andrea, Simon Fraser University includes some linked pages with info on ethnoarchaeology of emmer in Ethiopia and archaeobotany in Ghana

• Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium

• The African Ethnobotany Network
  
• Ethnobotanical & ethnozoological publications by Roger Blench

• Dorian Fuller’s annotated articles for download
• The Archaeobotanist blog tries to follow new publications, including on Africa and millets
  
• Archaeobotanical research and teaching resources, including numerous links for archaeobotany in general or of other regions (including a virtual phytolith reference collection, but mainly for Asian species). Also, see some links on historical linguistics, which include some relevant to Africa.
  
• Ethnobotanical resources for Africa
  • AFLORA - An African Plant Utlilization Database from the Kyoto University Center for African Studies. (This incluydes quite a bit of data on Pgymy and !Kung plant use).
  • PROTA-base. The Database of written species in the Plant Resources of Tropical Africa project, hosted by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.
• Africa Flora resources
  
  • African Flowering Plants database (geographical data, from the Geneva botanical garden)
  • Flora Zambesiaca (online version provided by Kew Gardens)
  • Plants and Vegetation of South Africa (from the South African Biodiversity Institute, Pretroria)
  • The Flora of Zimbabwe
    
    

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