The Cambridge history of Africa. Volume 1, From the earliest times to c. 500 B.C. / edited by J. Desmond Clark.
| Call Number | 960.1 |
| Title | The Cambridge history of Africa. edited by J. Desmond Clark. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xxiii, 1157 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015). |
| Contents | The palaeo-ecology of the African continent: the physical environment of Africa from earliest geological to Later Stone Age times / Origins and evolution of African Hominidae / The earliest archaeological traces / The cultures of the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age / The Late Palaeolithic and Epi-Palaeolithic of northern Africa / The Later Stone Age in sub-Saharan Africa / The rise of civilization in Egypt / Beginnings of pastoralism and cultivation in north-west Africa and the Sahara: origins of the Berbers / The origins of indigenous African agriculture / Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period in Egypt / Early food production in sub-Saharan Africa / Egypt, 1552-664 BC / |
| Summary | Volume I of The Cambridge History of Africa provides the first relatively complete and authoritative survey of African prehistory from the time of the first hominids in the Plio-Pleistone up to the spread of iron technology after c.500 BC. The volume therefore sets the stage for the history of the continent contained in the subsequent volumes. The material remains of past human life recovered by excavation are described and interpreted in the light of palaeo-ecological evidence, primate studies and ethnographic observation, to provide a record of the evolving skills and adaptive behaviour of the prehistoric populations. The unique discoveries in East and South Africa of early hominid fossils, stone tools and other surviving evidence are discussed with full documentation, leading on to the coming of Modern Man and the beginning of regional patterning. The volume provides a survey of the now considerable material showing the different ways of life in the forests, savannas and arid zones during the 'Later Stone Age'. |
| Added Author | Clark, J. Desmond 1916-2002, editor. |
| Subject | Africa History To 1498. |
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| Summary | Volume I of The Cambridge History of Africa provides the first relatively complete and authoritative survey of African prehistory from the time of the first hominids in the Plio-Pleistone up to the spread of iron technology after c.500 BC. The volume therefore sets the stage for the history of the continent contained in the subsequent volumes. The material remains of past human life recovered by excavation are described and interpreted in the light of palaeo-ecological evidence, primate studies and ethnographic observation, to provide a record of the evolving skills and adaptive behaviour of the prehistoric populations. The unique discoveries in East and South Africa of early hominid fossils, stone tools and other surviving evidence are discussed with full documentation, leading on to the coming of Modern Man and the beginning of regional patterning. The volume provides a survey of the now considerable material showing the different ways of life in the forests, savannas and arid zones during the 'Later Stone Age'. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015). |
| Contents | The palaeo-ecology of the African continent: the physical environment of Africa from earliest geological to Later Stone Age times / Origins and evolution of African Hominidae / The earliest archaeological traces / The cultures of the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age / The Late Palaeolithic and Epi-Palaeolithic of northern Africa / The Later Stone Age in sub-Saharan Africa / The rise of civilization in Egypt / Beginnings of pastoralism and cultivation in north-west Africa and the Sahara: origins of the Berbers / The origins of indigenous African agriculture / Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period in Egypt / Early food production in sub-Saharan Africa / Egypt, 1552-664 BC / |
| Subject | Africa History To 1498. |
| Multimedia |