The Archaeology of Africa : Food, Metals and Towns

by: Shaw, T. Sinclair, P. Andah, B. Okpoko, A.

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The archaeology of Africa : food, metals, and towns
Author:Thurstan Shaw

Summary:`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

Series:
One world archaeology, 20

Contents:
1. Africa's climate in the Holocene / A.T. Grove
2. The climatic and vegetational history of the equatorial regions of Africa during the upper Quaternary / J. Maley
3. The tropical African cereals / Jack R. Harlan
4. The spread of domestic animals in Africa / Juliet Clutton-Brock
5. Ethnographic and linguistic evidence for the prehistory of African ruminant livestock, horses and ponies / Roger Blench
6. Nilo-Saharans and the Saharo-Sudanese Neolithic / Christopher Ehret
7. Recent developments in African language classification and their implications for prehistory / Roger Blench
8. Linguistic evidence for the use of some tree and tuber food plants in Southern Nigeria / Kay Williamson
9. Examination of botanical remains from early neolithic houses at Nabta Playa, Western Desert, Egypt, with special reference to sorghum grains / K. Wasylikowa [and others]
10. Foraging and farming in Egypt : the transition from hunting and gathering to horticulture in the Nile Valley / Wilma Wetterstrom
11. The emergence of a food-producing economy in the Sahara / A. Muzzolini
12. Identifying early farming traditions of west Africa / Bassey W. Andah
13. The Kintampo complex : a case study of early sedentism and food production in sub-Sahelian west Africa / James Anquandah
14. Intensification in the west African Late Stone Age : a view from central Ghana / Ann Brower Stahl
15. Agriculture and settlement among the Tiv of Nigeria : some ethnoarchaeological observations / C.A. Folorunso & S.O. Ogundele
16. Central Africa and the archaeology of the equatorial rainforest : reflections on some major topics / Manfred K.H. Eggert
17. Transition from Late Stone Age to Iron Age in the Sudano-Sahelian zone : a case study from the Perichadian plain / Augustin Holl
18. The antiquity of cultivation and herding in Ethiopia / David W. Phillipson
19. The beginnings of food production in southwestern Kenya / Peter Robertshaw
20. The rise and fall of nomadic pastorialism in the central Namib desert / John Kinahan
21. The iron age peoples of east-central Botswana / D. Kiyaga-Mulindwa
22. Iron age settlement and subsistence patterns in southern Malawi / Yusuf M. Juwayeyi
23. A question of identities : an anthropological enquiry and a historical narrative / Joseph O. Vogel
24. A perspective on archaeological research in Mozambique / P.J.J. Sinclair [and others]. 25. New evidence on early iron-smelting from southeastern Nigeria / Edwin E. Okafor
26. Changing perspectives on traditional iron production in west Africa / F.J. Kense & John Ako Okoro
27. Iron technology in the middle Sahel/Savanna : with emphasis on central Darfur / I. Musa Muhammed
28. Iron-making techniques in the Kivu region of Zar?e : some of the difference between the South Maniema region and north Kivu / N'Sanda Buleli
29. Ancient iron-working in Madagascar / C. Radimilahy
30. The iron-using communities in Kenya / H.O. Kiriama
31. Metaphors and representations associated with precolonial iron-smelting in eastern and southern Africa / D.P. Collett
32. The magical production of iron in the Cameroon grassfields / M. Rowlands & J.-P. Warnier
33. Town and village in ancient Egypt : ecology, society and urbanization
34. Urbanism in bronze age Egypt and northeast Africa / D. O'Connor
35. The land of Punt / K.A. Kitchen
36. State development and urbanism in northern Ethiopia / S. Munro-Hay
37. Cities without citadels : understanding urban origins along the middle Niger
38. Urbanization and state formation in Ghana during the Iron age / J. Anquandah
39. The salt industries of west Africa : a preliminary study / J. Alexander
40. Trade and politics on the eastern littoral of Africa, AD 800-1300 / H.T. Wright
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 / G.H.O. Abungu & H.W. Mutoro
43. Urban trajectories on the Zimbabwean plateau / P.J.J. Sinclair [and others]
44. Settlement area and communication in African towns and cities / R. Fletcher

The Archaeology of Africa : Food, Metals and Towns

by: Shaw, T. Sinclair, P. Andah, B. Okpoko, A.

• ISBN-13: 9780415084444 / 978-0-415-08444-4
• ISBN-03: 041508444X / 0-415-08444-X
• Routledge, London, 1993

Price: 160,24 EURO

1 copy in stock