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• Book Title: Papers in African prehistory
• Author: J D Fage. R. A. Oliver -editors
• ISBN: 521074703
• Publisher: Cambridge University press
• Year Published: 1970
• Our Price: £38.50 GBP ($63.53 USD)
• Description: Cambridge University press, 1970: 331 pages including index: black and white illustrations, diagrams, charts, and maps . Synopsis: A collection of papers on Africa written in the 1960s including: -- The pre-historic origins of African culture. The spread of food production in sub- Saharan Africa by J Desmond Clark, Professor of Old World Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley. Primary cradles of agriculture in the African continent by Roland Porteres, Professor,Directeur du Laboratoire d' Ethnobotanique, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Speculations on the economic prehistory of Africa by Christopher Wrigley, Reader in African History, University of Sussex. Aspects of the evolution and ecology of tsetse flies and trypanosomiasis in the prehistoric African environment by Frank L. Lambrecht, World Health Organisation, Botswana. Concepts of race in the historiography of North East Africa by Wyatt McGaggaffey, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Haverford College, Pennsylvania. Some questions on the economic prehistory of Ethiopia by Frederick J. Simoons, Department of Geography, University of Texas, Austin. Some developments in the prehistory of the Bantu languages by Malcolm Guthrie, Professor of Bantu languages, University of London. The problem of the Bantu expansion by Roland Oliver, Professor of the History of Africa, University of London. The Rhodesian iron age by Roger Summers, director, National Museum, Bulawayo. The Greefswald sequence: Bambandyanalo and Mapungubwe. and The Iron Age sequence in the southern province of Zambia By Brian Fagan, Professor of Archaeology, University of California, Santa Barbara. Notes on some early pottery cultures in Northern Katanga by Jacques Nenguin, Professor, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, University of Ghent, Belguim. Kilwa and the Arab settlements of the East African Coast and The Shirazi colonisation of East Africa by Neville Chitty, Director, British Institute of History and Archaeology in East Africa . New lights on mediaeval Nubia by P. L. and M. Shinnie, Professor of archaeology, University of Khartoum, Khartoum and Mrs M Shinnie. Old Kanuri capitals by A D H Bivar, Reader in the Archaeology of the Near and Middle East, University of London and P. L. Shinnie. Ife and its archaeology by Frank Willet, Professor of African art, Northwestern University. Condition: dustjacket edges rubbed: overall clean and good
• Condition: Collectable- Good
• Dustcover: Yes
• Binding: Hardback
• Type: Used Books

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