The archaeology of Africa : foods, metals, and towns / edited by Thurstan Shaw [and others]

World Archaeological Congress (1986 : Southampton). Shaw, Thurstan

1993, First Edition. London ; New York : Routledge. Fine copy in the original color printed boards. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #240416
ISBN: 041508444X

Series; One world archaeology ; 20. Physical description; xxxvi, 857 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 25 cm. Notes; Review copy with the typescript review loosely inserted. Includes bibliographic references (p. [750]-833) and indexes. Summary; Africa has a vibrant past. It emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and highly complicated interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising an enormous diversity of economic and social strategies in an 2xtraordinary range of environmental situations. At long last the archaeology of Africa has revealed enough of Africa's unwritten past to confound preconceptions about this continent and to upset the picture inferred from historic written records. Without an understanding of its past complexities, it is impossible to grasp Africa's present, let alone its future. Subjects; Ancient. Archaeology. Food Supply — history. Commerce — history. Agriculture — history. Prehistoric peoples — Africa. Agriculture, Prehistoric — Africa. Commerce, Prehistoric — Africa. Man, Prehistoric — Africa. Antiquities, Prehistoric — Africa. Conference. Africa — Antiquities. Archaeology. Africa. Antiquities. Archaeology by period / region. African history ; World history: (BCE to c 500 CE) ; World history: (c 500 to C 1500). History / Africa / General. Social Science / General. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.

Price: €125.00