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The Archaeology of Africa - Food, Metals and Towns (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,365
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The Archaeology of Africa - Food, Metals and Towns (Hardcover): Bassey Andah, Alex Okpoko, Thurstan Shaw, Paul Sinclair

The Archaeology of Africa - Food, Metals and Towns (Hardcover)

Bassey Andah, Alex Okpoko, Thurstan Shaw, Paul Sinclair

Series: One World Archaeology

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A considerable proportion of the authors of this book are either Africans or live in Africa, and all of them carry out fieldwork there. Its size and coverage allows not only a wide overview of development in Africa from around 8000 BC to the present-day, but also some review chapters and in-depth studies. Contrary to common perception, it is intended that Africa's past should emerge as anything but a vast barren area, open to all extraneous influence, and eager to welcome incoming innovations and colonizers in order to be pushed into some kind of development. Instead, the book aims to show that the continent emerges as the possessor of a complex interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising a diversity of economic and social strategies in a number of environmental situations. In some areas, hunting and gathering was a successful adaptation, in some, pastoralism, in others, small agricultural communities, and in still others, urbanism. The archaeology of Africa has revealed enough of the continent's unwritten past to confound many preconceptions about it.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: One World Archaeology
Release date: March 1993
First published: 1993
Editors: Bassey Andah • Alex Okpoko • Thurstan Shaw • Paul Sinclair
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 45mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 896
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-08444-4
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Humanities > History > African history > General
Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > General
Books > History > African history > General
Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN: 0-415-08444-X
Barcode: 9780415084444

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