Alex Okpoko / Paul Sinclair (eds.)

The Archaeology of Africa

Food, Metals and Towns
Herausgeber: Andah, Bassey; Shaw, Thurstan; Okpoko, Alex

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Produktbeschreibung

`The list of contributors to The Archaeology of Africa is a most distinguished one ... offering new insights and perspectives on a whole range of themes critical to African prehistory and early history' - Professor Colin Renfrew

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 896
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 1331g
• ISBN-13: 9780415115858
• ISBN-10: 041511585X
• Artikelnr.: 21534902

Autorenporträt

Thurstan Shaw, Bassey Andah, Alex Okpoko, Paul Sinclair

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1: Africa's climate in the Holocene; 2: The climatic and
vegetational history of the equatorial regions of Africa during the upper
Quaternary; 3: The tropical African cereals; 4: The spread of domestic
animals in Africa; 5: Ethnographic and linguistic evidence for the
prehistory of African ruminant livestock, horses and ponies 1; 6:
Nilo-Saharans and the Saharo-Sudanese Neolithic; 7: Recent developments in
African language classification and their implications for prehistory; 8:
Linguistic evidence for the use of some tree and tuber food plants in
southern Nigeria; 9: Examination of botanical remains from early neolithic
houses at Nabta Playa, Western Desert, Egypt, with special reference to
sorghum grains; 10: Foraging and farming in Egypt: the transition from
hunting and gathering to horticulture in the Nile valley; 11: The emergence
of a food-producing economy in the Sahara; 12: Identifying early farming
traditions of west Africa; 13: The Kintampo complex: a case study of early
sedentism and food production in sub-Sahelian west Africa; 14:
Intensification in the west African Late Stone Age: a view from central
Ghana; 15: Agriculture and settlement among the Tiv of Nigeria: some
ethnoarchaeological observations; 16: Central Africa and the archaeology of
the equatorial rainforest: reflections on some major topics; 17: Transition
from Late Stone Age to Iron Age in the Sudano-Sahelian zone: a case study
from the Perichadian plain; 18: The antiquity of cultivation and herding in
Ethiopia; 19: The beginnings of food production in southwestern Kenya; 20:
The rise and fall of nomadic pastoralism in the central Namib desert; 21:
The iron age peoples of east-central Botswana; 22: Iron age settlement and
subsistence patterns in southern Malawi; 23: A question of identities: an
anthropological enquiry and a historical narrative; 24: A perspective on
archaeological research in Mozambique; 25: New evidence on early
iron-smelting from southeastern Nigeria; 26: Changing perspectives on
traditional iron production in west Africa; 27: Iron technology in the
middle Sahel/Savanna: with emphasis on central Darfur; 28: Iron-making
techniques in the Kivu region of Zaïre: some of the differences between the
South Maniema region and north Kivu; 29: Ancient iron-working in
Madagascar; 30: The iron-using communities in Kenya; 31: Metaphors and
representations associated with precolonial iron-smelting in eastern and
southern Africa; 32: The magical production of iron in the Cameroon
Grassfields; 33: Town and village in ancient Egypt: ecology, society and
urbanization; 34: Urbanism in bronze age Egypt and northeast Africa; 35:
The land of Punt; 36: State development and urbanism in northern Ethiopia;
37: Cities without citadels: understanding urban origins along the middle
Niger; 38: Urbanization and state formation in Ghana during the Iron Age;
39: The salt industries of west Africa: a preliminary study; 40: Trade and
politics on the eastern littoral of Africa, Ad 800-1300; 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; 43: Urban trajectories on the Zimbabwean plateau;
44: Settlement area and communication in African towns and cities