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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Graham Connah (Australian National University, Canberra)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Edition: 3rd Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 24.40cm Weight: 0.930kg ISBN: 9781107011878ISBN 10: 1107011876 Pages: 428 Publication Date: 12 November 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. 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?ReviewsAuthor InformationGraham Connah is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of New England, Australia, and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra. His earlier book Three Thousand Years in Africa (1981) won the Amaury Talbot Prize. Other publications include The Archaeology of Benin (1975), The Archaeology of Australia's History (1993), Kibiro: The Salt of Bunyoro, Past and Present (1996), Transformations in Africa (1998), Forgotten Africa: An Introduction to its Archaeology (2004), also translated into German, French, Italian and Portuguese, and Writing about Archaeology (2010). He was awarded the Order of Australia in 2000 for his contributions to African and Australian archaeology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |