Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 193 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
Africa : the birthplace of humanity -- Stone tools and adaptation : the origins of the genus homo -- Africa's gift to the world : the earliest homo sapiens -- Living off the land : later hunter gatherers in Africa -- Putting ideas on stone : the rock art of Southern Africa -- Pictures from a lost world : the rock art of the Sahara -- Producing food : early developments in North and West Africa -- Producing food : adaptation in North East and East Africa -- The power of metal : the origins of African iron-working -- Ancient Egypt : 3000 years of achievement -- Nubia : a meeting place of different people -- Aksum : a trading metropolis on the Ethiopian plateau -- Church and state : survival in Ethiopia -- Opportunity and constraint : the Lake Chad story -- Facing the Mediterranean : Carthaginian, Greek and Roman North Africa -- Qsar Es-Seghir : front door to Europe, front door to Africa -- Jenné-Jeno : an early city on the Middle Niger -- Voyages in the Sahara : the desert trade with West Africa -- Igbo-Ukwu : a challenge from the past -- Ancestral faces : ancient sculpture in Nigeria -- Benin City : from forest power to world fame -- Pots and people : early farmers south of the Equator -- The testimony of the dead : life in the Upemba Depression -- 'One beautiful garden' : production and power amongst the Great Lakes -- Facing two worlds : the trading settlements of the East African coast -- Projecting power : Great Zimbabwe and related sites -- Deserted settlements with a story : later farmers in Southern Africa -- Outsiders on the inside : the impact of European expansion -- Remembering Africa's past |
Summary |
Forgotten Africa provides an introduction to Africa's past from an archaeological perspective |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-185) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Africa
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HISTORY -- General.
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Antiquities
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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SUBJECT |
Africa -- Antiquities
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Subject |
Africa
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0203511808 |
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9780203511800 |
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9780415305907 |
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041530590X |
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9780415305914 |
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0415305918 |
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9786610048151 |
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6610048150 |
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1134403038 |
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9781134403035 |
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1280048158 |
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9781280048159 |
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