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Author : Roland Anthony Oliver,Brian M. Fagan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1975-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521099005
A textbook providing the only comprehensive and up-to-date account of African history between 500 B.C. and 1400 A.D. Also useful to students of archaeology.
Author : Roland Oliver,Brian M. Fagan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1975-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521205980
Africa in the Iron Age is a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to African history between about 500 B.C. and A.D. 1400. The authors are not so much concerned with a particular technological revolution as the enormous changes - political, social and economic - that took place during the period 500 B.C.-A.D. 1400 all over the African continent. The book falls into three parts. Early chapters describe conditions about 500 B.C. when North Africa is already in the Bronze Age, Middle Africa is engaged in Stone Age farming and south of the Sahara most men live by hunting and gathering food. Between 500 B.C. and A.D. 1000 life in settled communities becomes normal throughout the continent. Finally, the Iron Age sees the rise of state systems, the development of long-distance trade and the spread of Islam and Monophysite Christianity. Any study of this period has to combine historical and archaeological methods in the search for evidence and in the subsequent interpretation of data. While literary evidence does exist for the period, Iron Age archaeology necessarily supplies most of the evidence examined. Roland Oliver is a leading African historian and the author of several standard books on the subject. Brian Fagan is an acknowledged expert on African Iron Age archaeology.
Author : Roland Oliver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Africa
ISBN : OCLC:1123515555
Author : P.L. SHINNIE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Joseph O. Vogel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135506735
First Published in 1994. This research guide was written as a comprehensive, though by no means exhaustive, survey of the literature pertinent to studying the indigenous complex societies of south central Africa. Although the paramount focus of the compilation was the archaeology of Great Zimbabwe, the author has drawn from a broad geographical area and a wider period of time than that usually associated with Zimbabwean culture in order to demonstrate the cultural background for the growth of monumental trading towns in south central Africa.
Author : D. E. Needham,Elleck K. Mashingaidze,Ngwabi Bhebe
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Africa, Central
ISBN : 0582651115
This new edition of the popular school history book has been thoroughly revised to bring it fully up to date. It provides a stimulating account of Central African history from the Iron Age to the liberation struggle and the successful achievement of Zimbabwe's national independence.
Author : Randi Haaland,P. L. Shinnie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : UCSC:32106007421644
Iron working has a long and rich history in Africa--it was decisive for the development of many African cultures and states, and its study is now yielding results of great significance. This book, a collection of articles by archaeologists and enthnographers from the USA, Africa, and Europe, explores the development of the iron working processes, the reasons for local variation, the role of iron workers in ancient and modern societies, and the way in which iron production changed society.
Author : James Denbow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107040700
This book provides the first detailed description of the prehistory of the Loango coast of west-central Africa over the course of more than 3000 years.
Author : D. E. Needham
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000080324
Author : Michael S. Bisson,Terry S. Childs,Philip De Barros,Augustin F. C. Holl,O. Vogel, Joseph
Publisher : AltaMira Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461705925
Gold. Copper. Iron. Metal working in Africa has been the subject of both public lore and extensive archaeological investigation. Here, four of the leading contemporary researchers on this topic attempt to provide a complete synthesis of current debates and understandings: Where, how, and when was metal first introduced to the continent? How were iron and copper tools, implements, and objects used in everyday life, in trade, in political and cultural contexts? What role did metal objects play in the ideological systems of precolonial African peoples? Substantive chapters address the origins of metal working and the technology and the various uses and meanings of copper and iron. An ethnoarchaeological account in the words of a contemporary iron worker enriches the archaeological explanations. This book provides a comprehensive, timely summary of our current knowledge.
Author : Peter Ridgway Schmidt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019352231
The purpose of this study is to recuperate the history of African iron technology.
Author : Hamady Bocoum
Publisher : Unesco
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113878743
The work of specialists archaeologists, historians, ethnologists, metallographs and sociologists gathered in this volume show the vitality of research being carried out on iron processing in Africa since as early as the third millennium B.C.
Author : Dennis Spande
Publisher : African Studies Association
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037138547
Author : Peter Ridgway Schmidt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0813013844
Archaeological and ethnographic investigations in western Tanzania in the 1970s revealed remarkable evidence for a complex and highly advanced iron technology that existed there several thousand years ago. Still, Western scientific and historical practice continues to obscure the history of iron technology and its accomplishments in Africa. Weaving together myth, ritual, history, and science, this work describes the systems of smithing and iron smelting, some of which arose 2,000 to 2,500 years ago. Revealing the world of African technological achievement, the contributors to this work demonstrate that iron production there is a socially constructed activity and that its cultural and technological domains cannot be understood separately.
Author : Thomas N. Huffman
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131708849
This detailed handbook to the Iron Age covers the last 2,000 years in Southern Africa. The first part of the book outlines essential topics such as settlement organization, stonewalled patterns, ritual residues, long-distance trade, and ancient mining. Part two presents a comprehensive culture-history sequence through ceramic analyses, showing distributions, stylistic types, and characteristic pieces. The final section reviews and updates the main debates about black prehistory, including migration vs. diffusion, the role of cattle, the origins of Mapungubwe, the rise and fall of Great Zimbabwe, as well as the archaeology of the Venda, the Sotho-Tswana, and the Nguni speakers. Handbook to the Iron Age is an abundantly illustrated study that is accessible to a wide range of people interested in African prehistory.