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Autore |
Connah Graham |
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Titolo |
Forgotten Africa : an introduction to its archaeology / / Graham Connah |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-40302-X |
1-134-40303-8 |
1-280-04815-8 |
0-203-51180-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Excavations (Archaeology) - Africa |
Africa Antiquities |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Africa the birthplace of humanity; 2 Stone tools and adaptation the origins of the genus Homo; 3 Africa's gift to the world the earliest Homo sapiens; 4 Living off the land later hunter gatherers in Africa; 5 Putting ideas on stone the rock art of southern Africa; 6 Pictures from a lost world the rock art of the Sahara; 7 Producing food: early developments in North and West Africa; 8 Producing food adaptation in North East and East Africa; 9 The power of metal the origins of African iron working |
10 Ancient Egypt 3000 years of achievement11 Nubia a meeting place of different people; 12 Aksum a trading metropolis on the Ethiopian Plateau; 13 Church and state survival in Ethiopia; 14 Opportunity and constraint the Lake Chad story; 15 Facing the Mediterranean: Carthaginian, Greek and Roman North Africa; 16 Qsar es Seghir front door to Europe front door to Africa; 17 Jenné jeno an early city on the Middle Niger; 18 Voyages in the Sahara |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Forgotten Africa provides an introduction to Africa's past from an archaeological perspective. |
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