The Lake Chad region of Nigeria is an extreme environment:
virtually treeless sand and a broiling clay plain in the fierce
heat of the dry season, then much of it inundated and impassable in
the wet season as whole areas turn into shallow lakes or marsh. Yet
even this hostile landscape and climate have sustained human
communities in continuous occupation for some three hundred years.
Professor Connah traces the story of human adaptation to and
exploitation of this unusual environment from prehistoric to modern
times. He presents a natural history of Man in the region, based
largely on archaeological data but drawing also on written
evidence, ethnography and oral tradition to reconstruct human
history and experience in this largely unknown area. This
ecological approach therefore cuts across the conventional
boundaries between academic disciplines and the book is intended
for students of African history as well as of archaeology. It
provides too the historical context in which modern development
programmes for the region can be set and to some extent judged. The
book is amply and well illustrated.
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