African Civilizations : an archaeological perspective
1. Verfasser: |
Connah, Graham
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Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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Ausgabe: | Third edition. |
Umfang/Format: |
xiii, 412 pages : illustrations, maps. |
Schlagworte: | |
Parallelausgabe: |
African civilizations : an archaeological perspective. [Print, 2nd edition] |
Online Zugang: |
Online availabe (Cambridge University Press) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- The context
- Origins: social change on the lower Nile
- The Mediterranean frontier: North Africa
- Sudanic genesis : Nubia
- Isolation : the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands
- Opportunity and constraint in the West African savanna
- Achieving power : the West African forest and its fringes
- Indian Ocean networks : the East African coast and islands
- Cattle, ivory and gold : social complexity in Zambezia
- Central Africa : the Upemba Depression, Interlacustrine region, and Far West
- Settlement growth and emerging polities : South Africa
- What are the common denominators?.