Sub-Saharan Africa - Antiquities, Africa - Civilization, General & Miscellaneous African History, Ancient Cultures - Archaeology, Physical Anthropology, Excavations - Archaeology
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Overview
This major new revised edition of African Civilizations reexamines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in tropical Africa over the past four thousand years and considers possible explanations of the developments that gave rise to it. Graham Connah focuses on urbanism and state formation in seven main areas of Africa: Nubia, Ethiopia, the West African savanna, the West African forest, the East African coast and islands, the Zimbabwe Plateau, and parts of Central Africa. Extensively illustrated and offering an extended bibliography, this book provides essential reading on the topic.Synopsis
Major new edition re-examining the physical evidence for developing social complexity in tropical Africa.
Editorials
From the Publisher
"The text is intelligible to laymen, the illustrations excellent, and the case studies intriguing." Africa Today"Graham Connah states in the introduction of this work that his purpose is to overcome the widespread stereotype that Africa represents a continent 'of scattered groups of people living in small villages of grass or mud "huts,"' but 'is about the material evidence of cities and states,' that is 'civilization.' The author succeeds admirably in this goal. The organization of the study is unique. The writing is integrated, lucid and eminently readable." The International Journal of African Historical Studies
Book Details
Published
January 1, 2001
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pages
356
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780521596909