This new revised edition of African Civilizations re-examines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in Africa over the last six thousand years. Unlike the two previous editions, it is not confined to tropical Africa but considers the whole continent. Graham Connah focuses upon the archaeological research of two key aspects of complexity, urbanism and state formation, in ten main areas of Africa: Egypt, North Africa, Nubia, Ethiopia, the West African savanna, the West African forest, the East African coast and islands, the Zimbabwe Plateau, parts of Central Africa and South…mehr
This new revised edition of African Civilizations re-examines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in Africa over the last six thousand years. Unlike the two previous editions, it is not confined to tropical Africa but considers the whole continent. Graham Connah focuses upon the archaeological research of two key aspects of complexity, urbanism and state formation, in ten main areas of Africa: Egypt, North Africa, Nubia, Ethiopia, the West African savanna, the West African forest, the East African coast and islands, the Zimbabwe Plateau, parts of Central Africa and South Africa. The book's main concern is to review the available evidence in its varied environmental settings, and to consider possible explanations of the developments that gave rise to it. Extensively illustrated, including new maps and plans, and offering an extended list of references, this is essential reading for students of archaeology, anthropology, African history, black studies and social geography.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
The author was born in Cheshire, educated at the Wirral Grammar School, served on a destroyer in the Mediterranean, read history and archaeology at Cambridge University, and worked there as a research assistant. After experience on numerous excavations in Britain, including as assistant director and director, in 1961 he went to Nigeria, where he spent ten years excavating and on fieldwork. In 1971, he moved to the University of New England in Australia, founding the archaeology department there and later becoming its foundation professor. He returned to Nigerian fieldwork in 1978 and 1981 and subsequently excavated in Egyptian Nubia and Uganda. He also contributed to Australian historical archaeology and founded the journal Australasian Historical Archaeology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, MA (Cantab), D.Litt (UNE), and holds the Order of Australia.
Inhaltsangabe
1. The context 2. Origins: social change on the lower Nile 3. The Mediterranean frontier: North Africa 4. Sudanic genesis: Nubia 5. Isolation: the Ethiopian and Eritrean Highlands 6. Opportunity and constraint in the West African savanna 7. Achieving power: the West African forest and its fringes 8. Indian Ocean networks: the East African coast and islands 9. Cattle, ivory and gold: social complexity in Zambezia 10. Central Africa: the Upemba Depression, Interlacustrine region and far west 11. Settlement growth and emerging polities: South Africa 12. What are the common denominators?
1. The context 2. Origins: social change on the lower Nile 3. The Mediterranean frontier: North Africa 4. Sudanic genesis: Nubia 5. Isolation: the Ethiopian and Eritrean Highlands 6. Opportunity and constraint in the West African savanna 7. Achieving power: the West African forest and its fringes 8. Indian Ocean networks: the East African coast and islands 9. Cattle, ivory and gold: social complexity in Zambezia 10. Central Africa: the Upemba Depression, Interlacustrine region and far west 11. Settlement growth and emerging polities: South Africa 12. What are the common denominators?
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