Papers in African Prehistory

Klappentext Professor Fage and Professor Oliver! the editors of this collection! are distinguished historians of Africa! and as founding editors of the Journal of African History. Zusammenfassung Professor Fage and Professor Oliver! the editors of this collection! are distinguished historians of Africa! and as founding editors of the Journal of African History they both established the journal and used it to mark out developing areas of the subject. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The prehistoric origins of African culture J. Desmond Clark; 2. The spread of food production in sub-Saharan Africa J. Desmond Clark; 3. Primary cradles of agriculture in the African continent Rolan Portres; 4. Speculations on the economic prehistory of Africa Christopher Wrigley; 5. Aspects of the evolution and ecology of tsetse flies and trypanosomiasis in the prehistoric African environment Frank L. Lambrecht; 6. Concepts of race in the historiography of Northeast Africa Wyatt MacGaffey; 7. Some questions on the economic prehistory of Ethiopia Frederick J. Simoons; 8. Some developments in the prehistory of the Bantu languages Malcolm Guthrie; 9. The problem of the Bantu expansion Roland Oliver; 10. The Rhodesian Iron Age Roger Summers; 11. The Greefswald sequence: Bambandyanalo and Mapungubwe Brian Fagan; 12. The Iron Age sequence in the Southern Province of Zambia Brian Fagan; 13. Notes on some early pottery cultures in northern Katanga Jaques Nenquin; 14. Kilwa and the Arab settlement of the East African coast Neville Chittick; 15. The 'Shirazl' colonization of East Africa Neville Chittick; 16. New light on Medieval Nubia P. L. and M. Shinnie; 17. Old Kanuri capitals A. D. H. Bivar and P. L. Shinnie; 18. Ife and its archaeology Frank Willett.

Product details

• Authors: Fage, J. D. Fage, J. D. Oliver Fage, J.d. Oliver Fage, Roland Oliver
• Assisted by: J. D. Fage (Editor), R. A. Oliver (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1970
• EAN: 9780521095662
• ISBN: 978-0-521-09566-2
• No. of pages: 348
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travel guides > Africa