Research Catalog

Title

The Archaeology of Africa : foods, metals, and towns / edited by Thurstan Shaw ... [et al.].

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

Shaw, Thurstan.

Description

xxxvi, 857 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

One world archaeology ; 20

Subject

• Prehistoric peoples > Africa
• Agriculture, Prehistoric > Africa
• Commerce, Prehistoric > Africa
• Africa > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [750]-833) and indexes.

Contents

• Africa's climate in the Holocene / A.T. Grove -- The climate 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.
• 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 ... [et al.] -- Foraging and farming in Egypt : the transition from hunting and gathering to horticulture in the Nile Valley / Wilma Wetterstrom.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 ... [et al.] -- 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.

Call Number

Sc E 96-301

ISBN

041508444X

LCCN

92013921 //r93

OCLC

25746129

Title

The Archaeology of Africa : foods, metals, and towns / edited by Thurstan Shaw ... [et al.].

Imprint

London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

Series

One world archaeology ; 20

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [750]-833) and indexes.

Added Author

Shaw, Thurstan.

Research Call Number

Sc E 96-301