Researching Africa's past : new contributions from British archaeologists : proceedings of a meeing held at St Hugh's College, Oxford, Saturday, April 20th, 2002 / edited by Peter Mitchell, Anne Haour and John Hobart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mitchell, Peter, 1962-

Haour, Anne

Hobart, John (John Henry)

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Monograph (University of Oxford. School of Archaeology) ; no. 57.

Monograph / Oxford University, School of Archeology ; no. 57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Antiquities.

Africa--Antiquities--Congresses.

Africa.

Africa--History--To 1498--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

152 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : University of Oxford, School of Archaeology, 2003.

Summary:

These seventeen papers were presented at a conference on African archaeology, held at St Hugh's College, Oxford, in April 2002. The topics span nineteen countries, from Morocco in the far northwest of the continent to Lesotho, Madagascar and South Africa in the south, from Mauritania in the west to Ethiopia and Kenya in the east. Together they show the strength of research in African archaeology being undertaken at the present time by British-based academics, and the relevance of Africa to a whole range of archaeological debates, including: early hominid evolution and the recent appearance and expansion of our own species, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, the early development of food-production, the development of metallurgy, the formation of complex societies, and the sociopolitical impacts of long-distance trade.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0947816585

OCLC:

52783109