Forgotten Africa : an introduction to its archaeology / / Graham Connah

• Autore: Connah Graham
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 960.1
• Soggetto topico: Excavations (Archaeology) - Africa
• Soggetto geografico: Africa Antiquities
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Forgotten Africa provides an introduction to Africa's past from an archaeological perspective.
• Titolo autorizzato: Forgotten Africa
• ISBN: 1-134-40302-X; 1-134-40303-8; 1-280-04815-8; 0-203-51180-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783869403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II