June 2008
Articles, Essays, and Reports
Mexico's Cimarron Heritage and Archaeological Record
Terrance Weik
A Haven from Slavery on Florida's Gulf Coast:
Looking for Evidence of Angola on the Manatee River
Uzi Baram
Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade:
Smoking Pipes, Tobacco, and the Middle Passage
Jerome S. Handler
Pieces of Chocolate:
Surveying Slave and Planter Life
at Chocolate Plantation, Sapelo Island, Georgia
Nicholas Honerkamp and Rachel L. DeVan
Some Reflections on Relics of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
in the Historic Town of Badagry, Nigeria
Alaba Simpson
Dissertation Abstract
The Free African American Cultural Landscape: Newport, RI, 1774-1826
Akeia A.F. Benard
News and Announcements
States Lead Slavery Apology Movement
Christine Vestal
Announcements
Graduate Programs in African Diaspora Archaeology
Christopher Fennell
Society for Georgia Archaeology Publishes
Two-Part Volume on African-American Archaeology
J. W. Joseph
New Books
Africa, Brazil and the Construction of Trans Atlantic Black Identities
Livio Sansone, Elisee Soumonni, and Boubacar Barry
Themes in West Africa's History
Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Call for Papers
Book Reviews
The Slave Ship: A Human History
Marcus Rediker and Fred L. McGhee
Sampling Many Pots: An Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at a Bahamian Plantation
Laurie A. Wilkie, Paul Farnsworth, and Chris Espenshade
Archaeology and Culture History in the Central Niger Delta
Abi Alabo Derefaka and Zacharys Anger Gundu
For Hearth and Altar: African Ceramics from the Keith Achepohl Collection
Kathleen Bickford Berzock and Susan Cooksey