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