| Description |
xxxvi, 857 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
One world archaeology ; 20 |
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One world archaeology ; 20
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| Contents |
Africa's climate in the Holocene / A.T. Grove -- The climatic and vegetational history of the equatorial regions of Africa during the upper Quaternary / J. Maley -- The tropical African cereals / Jack R. Harlan -- The spread of domestic animals in Africa / Juliet Clutton-Brock -- Ethnographic and linguistic evidence for the prehistory of African ruminant livestock, horses and ponies / Roger Blench -- Nilo-Saharans and the Saharo-Sudanese Neolithic / Christopher Ehret |
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Central Africa and the archaeology of the equatorial rainforest : reflections on some major topics / Manfred K.H. Eggert -- Transition from Late Stone Age to Iron Age in the Sudano-Sahelian zone : a case study from the Perichadian plain / Augustin Holl -- The antiquity of cultivation and herding in Ethiopia / David W. Phillipson -- The beginnings of food production in southwestern Kenya / Peter Robertshaw -- The rise and fall of nomadic pastorialism in the central Namib desert / John Kinahan |
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Recent developments in African language classification and their implications for prehistory / Roger Blench -- Linguistic evidence for the use of some tree and tuber food plants in Southern Nigeria / Kay Williamson -- Examination of botanical remains from early neolithic houses at Nabta Playa, Western Desert, Egypt, with special reference to sorghum grains / K. Wasylikowa [and others] -- Foraging and farming in Egypt : the transition from hunting and gathering to horticulture in the Nile Valley / Wilma Wetterstrom |
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The emergence of a food-producing economy in the Sahara / A. Muzzolini -- Identifying early farming traditions of west Africa / Bassey W. Andah -- The Kintampo complex : a case study of early sedentism and food production in sub-Sahelian west Africa / James Anquandah -- Intensification in the west African Late Stone Age : a view from central Ghana / Ann Brower Stahl -- Agriculture and settlement among the Tiv of Nigeria : some ethnoarchaeological observations / C.A. Folorunso & S.O. Ogundele |
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The iron age peoples of east-central Botswana / D. Kiyaga-Mulindwa -- Iron age settlement and subsistence patterns in southern Malawi / Yusuf M. Juwayeyi -- A question of identities : an anthropological enquiry and a historical narrative / Joseph O. Vogel -- A perspective on archaeological research in Mozambique / P.J.J. Sinclair [and others] -- New evidence on early iron-smelting from southeastern Nigeria / Edwin E. Okafor -- Changing perspectives on traditional iron production in west Africa / François J. Kense & John Ako Okoro |
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Iron technology in the middle Sahel/Savanna, with emphasis on central Darfur / I. Musa Muhammed -- Iron-making techniques in the Kivu region of Zaire : some of the differences between the South Maniema region and north Kivu / N'Sanda Buleli -- Ancient iron-working in Madagascar / C. Radimilahy -- The iron-using communities in Kenya / H.O. Kiriama -- Metaphors and representations associated with precolonial iron-smelting in eastern and southern Africa / D.P. Collett -- The magical production of iron in the Cameroon Grassfields / M. Rowlands & J.-P. Warnier -- Town and village in ancient Egypt : ecology, society and urbanization / F.A. Hassan -- Urbanism in Bronze Age Egypt and northeast Africa / D. O'Connor -- The land of Punt / K.A. Kitchen -- State development and urbanism in northern Ethiopia / S. Munro-Hay -- Cities without citadels : understanding urban origins along the middle Niger / S.K. McIntosh & R.J. McIntosh -- Urbanization and state formation in Ghana during the Iron Age / J. Anquandah -- The salt industries of west Africa : a preliminary study / J. Alexander -- Trade and politics on the eastern littoral of Africa, AD 800-1300 / H.T. Wright -- Exploitation of marine resources : evidence for the origin of the Swahili communities of east Africa / M. Horton & N. Mudida -- Coast-interior settlements and social relations in the Kenya coastal hinterland / G.H.O. Abungu & H.W. Mutoro -- Urban trajectories on the Zimbabwean plateau / P.J.J. Sinclair [and others] -- Settlement area and communication in African towns and cities / R. Fletcher |
| Analysis |
Africa |
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Archaeology |
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Africa |
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Antiquities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
14321397 |
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Legacy 2016 UoY |
| Subject |
Agriculture, Prehistoric -- Africa.
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Commerce, Prehistoric -- Africa.
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Africa.
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Prehistoric peoples -- Africa.
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Agriculture -- history.
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Archaeology.
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Commerce -- history.
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Food Supply -- history.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114100
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| Author |
Shaw, Thurstan.
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| LC no. |
92013921 |
| ISBN |
041508444X (hbk.) |
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041511585X (paperback) |
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