Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface and acknowledgements
- 1 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: 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?
- References
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface and acknowledgements
- 1 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: 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?
- References
- Index
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- Chapter
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- African CivilizationsAn Archaeological Perspective, pp. 399 - 412Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015