Africa

ISBN: 9781108498210
Published by : Cambridge University Press
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Rock-art images around the world are often difficult for us to decipher as modern viewers. Based on authentic records of the beliefs, rituals and daily life of the nineteenth-century San peoples, and of those who still inhabit the Kalahari Desert,... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781789691382
Published by : Archaeopress
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This book provides a fully up-to-date account of the evidence relating to the Middle Stone Age in Nigeria and the other countries of West Africa. It relies upon the author's own fieldwork and extensive personal knowledge of the region and its arch... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900971546
Published by : Society for Libyan Studies
Algeria is a large country, rich in visual remains of its long and complex history. The monuments of the Roman period are particularly impressive. This is partly because they are well-preserved, but also because the French, who colonised the regio... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780691182681
Published by : Princeton University Press
How West African gold and trade across the Sahara were central to the medieval world The Sahara Desert was a thriving crossroads of exchange for West Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe in the medieval period. Fueling this exchange ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781784919580
Published by : Archaeopress
This book is about how the author became an archaeologist at a time when opportunities for employment were rare and how he worked as a field researcher in West Africa and wrote about his work there. It traces his archaeological training and employ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781776142262
Published by : Wits University Press
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Why were depictions of animals a crucial trigger for the birth of art? And why did animals dominate that art for so long? In order to answer these questions, Renaud Ego examined some of the world's finest rock art, that of the San of southern Afri... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781789690330
Published by : Archaeopress
The Omo-Turkana area is unlike any place on earth. Spanning parts of Ethiopia, South Sudan and Kenya, the area is today home to a unique diversity of peoples and cultures. Extraordinary fossil finds from the locale have illuminated the evolutionar... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004380141
Published by : Brill
Series: African History
Volume: 7
Long regarded as disturbing remnants of the Atlantic slave trade, the European forts and castles of West Africa have attained iconic positions as universally significant historical monuments and world heritage tourist destinations. This volume of ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781108474085
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This ground-breaking volume explores a series of inter-related key themes in Saharan archaeology and history. Migration and identity formation can both be approached from the perspective of funerary archaeology, using the combined evidence of buri... .... Learn More