Africa
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Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa [Hardback]
Kathleen Bickford Berzock (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780691182681
Published by : Princeton University Press
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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 -
An Engraved Landscape: The rock carvings of the Wadi al-Ajal, South West Libya [Paperback]
Tertia Barnett (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781900971379
Published by : Society for Libyan Studies
Volume: 11
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The Sahara contains one of the most extensive and enigmatic collections of rock art in the world. An Engraved Landscape represents the main report on the rock art of the Wadi al-Ajal, south west Libya. Based on extensive fieldwork directed by the ... .... Learn More -
Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond [Hardback]
M. C. Gatto (Editor); D. J. Mattingly (Editor); N. Ray (Editor); M. Sterry (Editor)
£100.00ISBN: 9781108474085
Published by : Cambridge University Press
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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 -
The Archaeology of Western Sahara: A Synthesis of Fieldwork, 2002 to 2009 [Hardback]
Jo Clarke (Author); Nick Brooks (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9781782971726
Published by : Oxbow Books
Contrary to much perceived wisdom, the Sahara is a rich and varied tapestry of diverse environments that sustain an array of ecosystems. Throughout its history, the Sahara has been a stage for human evolution, with human habitatio... .... Learn More -
The World of Great Zimbabwe [Hardback]
Innocent Pikirayi (Editor)
£165.00ISBN: 9781138913479
Published by : Routledge
Series: Routledge Worlds
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Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2015 [Hardback]
Miroslav Bárta (Editor); Filip Coppens (Editor); Jaromír Krejčí (Editor)
£168.00ISBN: 9788073087586
Published by : Czech Institute of Egyptology
The Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Charles University in Prague has since the start of the third millennium established the tradition of organising on a regular basis a platform for scholars, active in the pyramid fields and the cemeteries o... .... Learn More -
Africa Proconsularis: Volume 3 - Regional Studies in the Segermes Valley of Northern Tunisia -- Historical Conclusions [Hardback]
Peter f. Orsted (Author); Jesper Carlsen (Author); Laila Ladjimi Sebai (Author); Habib Ben Hassen (Author)
£34.25ISBN: 9788772888286
Published by : Aarhus University Press
From 1987 to 1990, in collaboration with several Danish research institutes, the Tunisian Institut National de Patrimoine carried out an extensive archaeological survey in the valley known as the Segermes basin, in Tunisia. The results of that wor... .... Learn More -
Africa Proconsularis, Volumes 1 & 2: Regional Studies in the Segermes Valley of Northern Tunisia [Hardback]
Peter f. Orsted (Author); Jesper Carlsen (Author); Laila Ladjimi Sebai (Author); Habib Ben Hassen (Author)
£45.75ISBN: 9788772887401
Published by : Aarhus University Press
What was the relationship between city and country in the Roman Empire? The writings which have been preserved show an enormous empire, divided into "cells", each with a city at its centre. But the written sources are few, and focus mainly on the ... .... Learn More -
The Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa [Paperback]
James Denbow (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9781107673793
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa provides the first detailed description of the prehistory of the Loango coast of west-central Africa over the course of more than 3,000 years. The archaeological data presented in this volume comes... .... Learn More -
African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa [Hardback]
Michael A. Gomez (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780691177427
Published by : Princeton University Press
A groundbreaking history that puts early and medieval West Africa in a global context Pick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book, the first on ... .... Learn More
