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1 online resource (xxxvi, 857 pages) : illustrations |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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One world archaeology ; 20 |
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One world archaeology ; 20.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 750-833) and indexes. |
| Contents |
1. Africa's climate in the Holocene / A.T. Grove -- 2. The climatic and vegetational history of the equatorial regions of Africa during the upper Quaternary / J. Maley -- 3. The tropical African cereals / Jack R. Harlan -- 4. The spread of domestic animals in Africa / Juliet Clutton-Brock -- 5. Ethnographic and linguistic evidence for the prehistory of African ruminant livestock, horses and ponies / Roger Blench -- 6. Nilo-Saharans and the Saharo-Sudanese Neolithic / Christopher Ehret -- 7. Recent developments in African language classification and their implications for prehistory / Roger Blench -- 8. Linguistic evidence for the use of some tree and tuber food plants in Southern Nigeria / Kay Williamson -- 9. Examination of botanical remains from early neolithic houses at Nabta Playa, Western Desert, Egypt, with special reference to sorghum grains / K. Wasylikowa [and others] -- 10. Foraging and farming in Egypt : the transition from hunting and gathering to horticulture in the Nile Valley / Wilma Wetterstrom -- 11. The emergence of a food-producing economy in the Sahara / A. Muzzolini -- 12. Identifying early farming traditions of west Africa / Bassey W. Andah -- 13. The Kintampo complex : a case study of early sedentism and food production in sub-Sahelian west Africa / James Anquandah -- 14. Intensification in the west African Late Stone Age : a view from central Ghana / Ann Brower Stahl -- 15. Agriculture and settlement among the Tiv of Nigeria : some ethnoarchaeological observations / C.A. Folorunso & S.O. Ogundele -- 16. Central Africa and the archaeology of the equatorial rainforest : reflections on some major topics / Manfred K.H. Eggert -- 17. Transition from Late Stone Age to Iron Age in the Sudano-Sahelian zone : a case study from the Perichadian plain / Augustin Holl -- 18. The antiquity of cultivation and herding in Ethiopia / David W. Phillipson -- 19. The beginnings of food production in southwestern Kenya / Peter Robertshaw -- 20. The rise and fall of nomadic pastorialism in the central Namib desert / John Kinahan -- 21. The iron age peoples of east-central Botswana / D. Kiyaga-Mulindwa -- 22. Iron age settlement and subsistence patterns in southern Malawi / Yusuf M. Juwayeyi -- 23. A question of identities : an anthropological enquiry and a historical narrative / Joseph O. Vogel -- 24. A perspective on archaeological research in Mozambique / P.J.J. Sinclair [and others]. |
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25. New evidence on early iron-smelting from southeastern Nigeria / Edwin E. Okafor -- 26. Changing perspectives on traditional iron production in west Africa / F.J. Kense & John Ako Okoro -- 27. Iron technology in the middle Sahel/Savanna : with emphasis on central Darfur / I. Musa Muhammed -- 28. Iron-making techniques in the Kivu region of Zar?e : some of the difference between the South Maniema region and north Kivu / N'Sanda Buleli -- 29. Ancient iron-working in Madagascar / C. Radimilahy -- 30. The iron-using communities in Kenya / H.O. Kiriama -- 31. Metaphors and representations associated with precolonial iron-smelting in eastern and southern Africa / D.P. Collett -- 32. The magical production of iron in the Cameroon grassfields / M. Rowlands & J.-P. Warnier -- 33. Town and village in ancient Egypt : ecology, society and urbanization -- 34. Urbanism in bronze age Egypt and northeast Africa / D. O'Connor -- 35. The land of Punt / K.A. Kitchen -- 36. State development and urbanism in northern Ethiopia / S. Munro-Hay -- 37. Cities without citadels : understanding urban origins along the middle Niger -- 38. Urbanization and state formation in Ghana during the Iron age / J. Anquandah -- 39. The salt industries of west Africa : a preliminary study / J. Alexander -- 40. Trade and politics on the eastern littoral of Africa, AD 800-1300 / H.T. Wright -- 41. Exploitation of marine resources : evidence for the origin of the Swahili communities of east Africa -- 42. Coast-interior settlements and social relations in the Kenya coastal hinterland / G.H.O. Abungu & H.W. Mutoro -- 43. Urban trajectories on the Zimbabwean plateau / P.J.J. Sinclair [and others] -- 44. Settlement area and communication in African towns and cities / R. Fletcher. |
| Summary |
Africa has a vibrant past. It emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and highly complicated interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising an enormous diversity of economic and social strategies in an Extraordinary range of environmental situations. At long last the archaeology of Africa has revealed enough of Africa's unwritten past to confound preconceptions about this continent and to upset the picture inferred from historic written records. Without an understanding of its past complexities, it is impossible to grasp Africa's present, let alone its future. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2024. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Subject |
Prehistoric peoples -- Africa.
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Agriculture, Prehistoric -- Africa.
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Commerce, Prehistoric -- Africa.
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Archaeology.
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Metal-work, Prehistoric -- Africa.
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Africa -- Antiquities.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Shaw, Thurstan, editor.
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American Council of Learned Societies, issuing body.
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| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
0203754247 (e-book ; PDF) |
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041511585X |
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9780415115858 |
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9781134679423 (e-book ; PDF) |
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1134679424 |
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9781134679492 (e-book ; ePub) |
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1134679491 |
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9781134679560 (e-book ; Mobi) |
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1134679564 |
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041508444X 9780415084444 9780415115858 |
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9780203754245 (ebk) |
| Standard No. |
heb40221 hdl |
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