African archaeology / David W. Phillipson.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1993.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Cambridge world archaeology.
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Table of Contents:
- Elucidating the African past
- Archaeology in Africa
- Linguistics
- Oral traditions
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Africa in world prehistory
- The emergence of humankind in Africa
- Definition and process
- World-wide precursors of the hominids
- The earliest hominids
- The oldest discoveries in eastern Africa
- The Lake Turkana Basin and Olduvai Gorge
- Central and south-central Africa
- South Africa
- The earliest tool-makers
- The consolidation of basic human culture
- Acheulean and Sangoan in Africa
- Acheulean in eastern Africa
- Acheulean in south-central Africa
- Acheulean in southern Africa
- Acheulean in West Africa and the Sahara
- Acheulean in North Africa
- Sangoan assemblages
- Acheulean/Sangoan artefacts and their makers
- Regional diversification and specialisation
- The 'Middle Stone Age' and the 'Late Stone Age'
- Southern Africa
- South-central Africa
- Rock art in southern and south-central Africa
- Central Africa
- Eastern Africa
- West Africa
- North Africa and the Sahara
- Changing life-styles and technology
- The beginnings of permanent settlement
- North Africa, the Sahara and the Nile Valley
- East Africa
- African peoples 10,000 years ago
- Early farmers
- Cultivation and herding
- The Sahara and North Africa
- The Nile Valley
- West and Central Africa
- Ethiopia and the Horn
- East Africa
- Iron-using peoples before AD 1000
- Iron
- North Africa
- Egypt and the Arab invasion
- The Sudan
- Ethiopia and adjacent regions
- West Africa
- Central Africa.