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[13], 186 pages : illustrations, 16 plates, maps, plan, tables, diagrams ; 19 cm. |
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The Students' library
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-180) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface / L.P. Kirwan -- Part one : Human evolution and the Stone Ages -- The prelude to the earliest toolmakers in Uganda / W.W. Bishop -- The earliest toolmakers / L.S.B. Leakey -- The Early Stone Age, an interpretative approach / Merrick Posmansky -- Olorgesailie / Glynn Isaac -- The Middle and Later Stone Ages / Glynn Isaac -- Rock paintings in East Africa, their date and their place in African archaeology / Merrick Posnansky -- Part two : The peopling of Africa and the foundations of African society -- The peopling of Africa -- the linuistic and sociological evidence / Aidan Southall -- The origins of agriculture and iron-working in southern Africa / Merrick Posnansky -- The problem of 'Sirikwa holes' and the so-called 'Azanian' remains of the western highlands of Kenya / J.E.G. Sutton -- Part three : The history and archaeology of the East African coast -- The history of the coast of East Africa up to 1700 / James Kirkman -- Kilwa / Neville Chittick -- Part four : Oral traditions, history and the remembered past of East Africa -- Oral traditions and the historian / B. Alan Ogot -- Field work methods in the study of oral traditions in Karagwe Kingdom, Tanzania / Ruth C. Berger -- Place names, proverbs, idioms and songs as a check on traditional history / Bryan Kirwan. |
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Africa -- History.
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Africa, East -- History -- To 1886.
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Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
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Africa, East. (OCoLC)fst01239511
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To 1886
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Posnansky, Merrick, editor.
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British Institute of History and Archaeology in East Africa.
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Makerere University College.
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