African Archaeology

Cover Page......Page 1
Title......Page 4
ISBN 0521832365......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents (with page links)......Page 8
Illustrations (with page links)......Page 10
Sources of illustrations......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Elucidating the African past......Page 18
Archaeology in Africa......Page 20
Linguistics......Page 23
Oral traditions......Page 26
Africa in world prehistory......Page 27
Definition and process......Page 32
World-wide precursors of the hominids......Page 37
The earliest hominids......Page 39
The oldest discoveries in eastern Africa......Page 49
The Lake Turkana Basin and Olduvai Gorge......Page 51
South Africa......Page 59
The earliest tool-makers......Page 64
Acheulean and Sangoan in Africa......Page 69
Acheulean in eastern Africa......Page 77
Acheulean in south-central Africa......Page 85
Acheulean in southern Africa......Page 90
Acheulean in West Africa and the Sahara......Page 92
Acheulean in North Africa......Page 94
Sangoan assemblages......Page 98
Acheulean/Sangoan artefacts and their makers......Page 101
The ‘Middle Stone Age’ and the ‘Late Stone Age’......Page 108
Southern Africa......Page 113
South-central Africa......Page 125
Rock art in southern and south-central Africa......Page 128
Central Africa......Page 133
Eastern Africa......Page 139
West Africa......Page 145
North Africa and the Sahara......Page 148
Changing life-styles and technology......Page 158
North Africa, the Sahara and the Nile Valley......Page 164
East Africa......Page 173
Overview......Page 176
African peoples 10,000 years ago......Page 177
Cultivation and herding......Page 182
The Sahara and North Africa......Page 189
The Nile Valley......Page 198
West and Central Africa......Page 212
Ethiopia and the Horn......Page 220
East Africa......Page 223
Iron......Page 231
North Africa......Page 233
Egypt and the Arab invasion......Page 238
The Sudan......Page 241
Ethiopia and adjacent regions......Page 245
West Africa......Page 251
Central Africa......Page 262
Eastern and southern Africa......Page 266
The contribution of Bantu linguistic studies......Page 278
Mode of dispersal......Page 282
Stone-tool-using herders of southwestern Africa......Page 286
The last 1000 years......Page 291
West Africa......Page 292
Ethiopia, the southern Sudan and adjacent regions......Page 301
The east coast of Africa......Page 305
Bantu-speakers north of the Zambezi......Page 308
Southeastern Africa......Page 314
Southwestern Africa......Page 324
Epilogue......Page 325
Bibliographic guide......Page 327
Bibliographic references......Page 328
Index (with page links)......Page 386