Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-491) and index.

Pathways in the archaeology of transatlantic Africa / Akinwumi Ogund iran and Toyin Falola -- Entangled lives : the archaeology of daily lif e in the Gold Coast hinterlands, AD 1400-1900 / Ann Brower Stahl -- Liv ing in the shadow of the Atlantic world : history and material life in a Yoruba-Edo hinterland, ca. 1600-1750 / Akinwumi Ogundiran -- Dahomey and the Atlantic slave trade : archaeology and political order on the B ight of Benin / J. Cameron Monroe -- Enslavement in the middle Senegal valley : historical and archaeological perspectives / Alioune Dâeme and Ndáeye Sokhna Guáeye -- The landscape and society of northern Yorubala nd during the era of the Atlantic slave trade / Aribidesi Usman -- The collapse of coastal city-states of East Africa / Chapurukha M. Kusimba -- Ghana's "slave castles," tourism, and the social memory of the Atlan tic slave trade / Brempong Osei-Tutu -- Bakongo identity and symbolic e xpression in the Americas / Christopher C. Fennell -- "In this here pla ce" : interpreting enslaved homeplaces / Whitney L. Battle-Baptiste -- Bringing the out kitchen in? : the experiential landscapes of Black and White New England / Alexandra A. Chan -- African metallurgy in the Atl antic world / Candice L. Goucher -- Between urban and rural : organizat ion and distribution of local pottery in eighteenth-century Jamaica / M ark W. Hauser -- Allies, adversaries, and kin in the African Seminole c ommunities of Florida : archaeology at Pilaklikaha / Terrance Weik -- S cars of brutality : archaeology of the Maroons in the Caribbean / E. Ko fi Agorsah -- The archaeological study of the African diaspora in Brazi l / Pedro P. Funari -- The vanishing people : archaeology of the Africa n population in Buenos Aires / Daniel Schâavelzon -- Maritime archaeolo gy and the African diaspora / Fred L. McGhee -- Archaeology of the Afri can Meeting House on Nantucket / Mary C. Beaudry and Ellen P. Berkland -- Practicing African American archaeology in the Atlantic world / Anna S. Agbe-Davies.