Africa in the Iron Age, c500 B.C. to A.D. 1400 / Roland Oliver, Brian M. Fagan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oliver, Roland Anthony.

Fagan, Brian M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iron age--Africa.

Iron age.

Africa--Antiquities.

Africa.

Antiquities.

Africa--History.

History.

Physical Description:

228 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1975.

Contents:

1 Northern Africa at the end of the Bronze Age 1

2 Early food production in middle Africa 12

3 Late Stone Age hunter-gatherers in Africa south of the Equator 22

4 North-east Africa and the Greek-speaking world 33

5 North Africa and its invaders from 500 B.C. till the Arab conquests 47

6 Sub-Saharan West Africa in the Early Iron Age

500 B.C. to A.D. 1000 59

7 West-central Africa around the first millennium A.D. 70

8 East Africa to about the eleventh century 81

9 South-central Africa to the eleventh century 93

10 South of the Limpopo and the Kalahari 106

11 Muslim Egypt and Christian Nubia 119

12 Christianity and Islam in north-east Africa 132

13 The eastern Maghrib and the central Sudan during the early Muslim period 145

14 The western Maghrib and Sudan c. 700-1250 157

15 Mali and its neighbours c. 1250-1450 169

16 West Africa south of Hausaland c. 700-1400 180

17 Eastern Africa and the outside world c. 1000-1400 191

18 States and trading systems of central Africa c. 1000-1400 203.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 215-224.

ISBN:

0521205980 :

OCLC:

1364815