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THE AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY SERIES
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Table of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER I - Introducing Africa: Definitions, Routes, Resources, and Interactions
Where and What Is Africa?
Africa’s Geography
The Basis of Interaction: Resources and Technologies
Thinking about Interaction
The Pleistocene Background
Notes
CHAPTER 2 - The Development and Spread of African Farming Systems
African Systems of Food Production
African Origins for African Cattle: Early Pastoralism in Northern Africa
The Expansion of Livestock Keeping: The Sahara, the Sahel, and East Africa
Domesticating African Cereals: Absence of Evidence or Evidence of Absence?
Development and Spread of Food Production in Equatorial and Subequatorial Africa
Trans-Mediterranean Connections in North Africa
Patterns in the Emergence and Spread of African Systems of Food Production
Notes
CHAPTER 3 - The Nile and Red Sea Corridors
Gift of the Nile?
Egypt at the Fulcrum of Asia and Africa
Nubia: Corridor, Cul-de-sac, Colony, or Competitor?
Early Movements on the Red Sea
Aksum and Its Predecessors
Northeastern Africa and the Spread of World Religions
Beyond the Niles: Contacts between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia and Other Parts of Africa
Notes
CHAPTER 4 - Africa in the Indian Ocean World System
Eastern Africa in the Indian Ocean World
Colonizing Offshore Islands, Introducing Southeast Asian Crops
East Africa and the Greco-Roman World
Origins and Development of the Swahili Trading System
Structures of Trade
Contrasting Interiors: The Zimbabwe Tradition, Uganda, and Upemba
The Spread of Islam
The Emergence of the Swahili World
Foreign Colonizations of Eastern Africa’s Coasts
Notes
CHAPTER 5 - Africa’s Other Sea: The Sahara and Its Shores
The Sahara: A Brief Introduction
Of Chariots and Iron
The Garamantes
The Early Development of Towns and Trade in the Sahel
Islam and the Mediterranean Dimension of Trans-Saharan Trade
The Archaeology of Trans-Saharan Contact
The Forest Dimension
State Formation in the Sahel
The Trans-Saharan System since ca. 1500
Notes
CHAPTER 6 - Africa’s Opening to the Atlantic
Atlantic Voyaging before the Portuguese?
The Canary Islands and Bioko: Africa’s First Atlantic Islands
Africa and the Atlantic ca. 1400–1650
Africa’s Atlantic Trade since 1650
The Southwestern Corner: European Settlement and Exploration in Southern Africa
Transformations in Subsistence, Technology, and Demography: Africa and the Columbian Exchange
Notes
CHAPTER 7 - Out-of-Africa 3: The Archaeology of the African Diaspora
The Atlantic Slave Trade: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions
African Archaeology in the New World
Continuities from Africa
Archaeologies of Resistance
The Other Diasporas: Europe, the Indian Ocean and Africa
Conclusion
Notes
CHAPTER 8 - Reconnecting Africa: Patterns, Problems, and Potentials
Patterns of Interaction
Problems of Research
Potentials for Research
Notes
References
Index
About the Author
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