Dr Abigail Moffett

Refereed Journal Articles

• Moffett, A., & Haour, A. 2024. Making beads and bead making: an introduction. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 59(4), 463–482. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2024.2419778
• Nyamushosho, R. T., Moffett, A. J., Chirikure, S., Bandama, F., Dussubieux, L., Stephens, J., ... & Sitas, A. (2024). Chumnungwa Glass Beads: New Insights into the Geochemistry, Circulation, and Consumption Patterns of Pre-European Glass Beads in Iron Age Southern Africa, CE 980–1650. African Archaeological Review, 41(3), 373-403. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-024-09601-9
• Macamo, Solange, Miguel Raimundo, Abigail Moffett, and Paul Lane. 2024. "Developing Heritage Preservation on Ilha de Moçambique Using a Historic Urban Landscape Approach" Heritage 7, no. 4: 2011-2030. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage7040095
• Haour, A., and Moffett, A.J. 2023. Global connections and connected communities in the African past: stories from a cowrie shell. African Archaeological Review 40: 545–553. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-023-09546-5
• Moffett, A., & Walz, J. 2023. Real but unrealised: Object transformations and political economy in East and southern Africa, AD 750–1250. Antiquity 97(394): 975-990 . https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.94
• Moffett, A.J. 2023. Decoupling identities: Moving beyond gendered binaries in the southern African past. Southern African Humanities 36: 149–62. https://www.sahumanities.org/index.php/sah/article/view/505
• Moffett, A.J., Nyamushosho, R., Bandama, F. and Chrikure, C. 2022. Stringing together cowrie shells in the African archaeological record with special reference to southern Africa. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 29: 862–901. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-021-09539-1
• Moffett, A. J., Hall, S., and Chirikure, S. 2020. Crafting power: New perspectives on the political economy of southern Africa, AD 900–1300. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 59: 101180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101180 
  •    Moffett, A, J. 2020. The Archaeology of Metal Production in Southern Africa. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History (online). https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.602 
  •    Moffett, A. J., and Hall, S. 2020. Divining Value: Cowries, the Ancestral Realm and the Global in Southern Africa. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 30(2): 313-326. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774319000659
• Chirikure, S., Mukwende, T., Moffett, A.J., Nyamushosho, R.T., Bandama, F. and House, M. 2018. No big brother here: heterarchy, Shona political succession and the relationship between great Zimbabwe and Khami, southern Africa. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 28(1): 45-66. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774317000555
• Bandama, F., Moffett, A.J., and Chirikure, S., 2017. Typological and technological attributes of metallurgical crucibles from Great Zimbabwe (1000–1700CE)'s legacy collections. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 12: 646-657. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.02.029
• Moffett, A.J., Maggs, T. and van Schalkwyk, J. 2017. Breaking ground: hoes in precolonial South Africa - typology, medium of exchange and symbolic value. African Archaeological Review 34(1): 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-017-9247-1
• Moffett, A.J. and Chirikure, S. 2016. Exotica in Context: Reconfiguring Prestige, Power and Wealth in the Southern African Iron Age. Journal of World Prehistory 29(4): 337-382. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-016-9099-7
• Bandama, F., Moffett, A.J., Thondhlana, T.P. and Chirikure, S. 2016. The production, distribution and consumption of metals and alloys at Great Zimbabwe. Archaeometry 58(1): 164-181. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12248
• Chirikure, S., Bandama, F., House, M., Moffett, A., Mukwende, T. and Pollard, M. 2016. Decisive evidence for multidirectional evolution of sociopolitical complexity in southern Africa. African Archaeological Review 33(1): 75-95. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-016-9215-1
• Mathoho, E.N., Bandama, F., Moffett, A.J. and Chirikure, S. 2016. A technological and anthropological study of iron production in Venda, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 51(2): 234-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2016.1177937

Book chapters and editorials

• Lemos R, Mbeki L, Owoseni B, Rai N, Moffett A. 2025. How can archaeology help shape decolonial futures? Antiquity, 99(404):291-302. doi:10.15184/aqy.2025.29
• Moffett, A.J., 2024. Africa, South: Indian Ocean and Atlantic Connections. In: Rehren, T., Nikita, E. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Archaeology, 2nd Edition, vol. 3, pp. 169–176, London: Academic Press. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90799-6.00076-8
• Haour, A. , & Moffett, A., 2019. The Cowrie in East Africa. In Arc Humanities Press (ed.). The Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages. London: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Chirikure, S. & Moffett, A.J. 2018. Fluid Spaces and fluid Objects: Nocturnal Material Culture in sub-Saharan Africa with special reference to southern Africa. In N. Gonlin & A. Nowell (eds). Archaeology of the Night. Life After Dark in the Ancient World. Colorado: University Press of Colorado.

Non-academic Publications

• Moffett, A. Iron Age Mining Links Ancient SA to the World. The Mail and Guardian, 22 August 2014 [online]. Available at: http://mg.co.za/article/2014-08-15-iron-age-mining-links-ancient-sa-to-…;