The Archaeology of Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Food, Metals and Towns
Redaktion: Andah, Bassey; Sinclair, Paul; Shaw, Thurstan; Okpoko, Alex

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 2xtraordinary 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 896
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134679492
• Artikelnr.: 41008446

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