African Foragers
Title | African Foragers PDF eBook |
Author | Sibel Barut Kusimba |
Publisher | Rowman Altamira |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780759101548 |
Study of the development of foraging strategies in Africa from the Middle Stone Age to the present.
Cultural Diversity Among Twentieth-Century Foragers
Title | Cultural Diversity Among Twentieth-Century Foragers PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Kent |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 1996-02-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0521482372 |
This book examines variability within broadly defined African forager societies. Foragers have been seen as culturally similar as they all pursue a subsistence strategy emphasising hunting and gathering. However, new research suggests there may be more diversity among groups than has been acknowledged. Here, leading scholars contrast groups with in forager societies. Chapters range in scope from symbolic to ecological and behavioural, providing invaluable data on hunter-gatherer life for anyone concerned with past or present foragers.
The First Africans
Title | The First Africans PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Barham |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-06-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521847966 |
A synthesis of the record left by Africa's earliest inhabitants combining archaeology, genetics and palaeo-environmental science.
East African Archaeology
Title | East African Archaeology PDF eBook |
Author | Chapurukha M. Kusimba |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2011-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1934536261 |
The goal of this volume is to impart an appreciation of the many facets of East Africa's cultural and archaeological diversity over the last 2,000 years. It brings together chapters on East African archaeology, many by Africa-born archaeologists who review what is known, present new research, and pinpoint issues of debate and anomaly in the relatively poorly known prehistory of East Africa.
The First Africans
Title | The First Africans PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Barham |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 622 |
Release | 2008-06-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780521612654 |
Africa has the longest record - some 2.5 million years - of human occupation of any continent. For nearly all of this time, its inhabitants have made tools from stone and have acquired their food from its rich wild plant and animal resources. Archaeological research in Africa is crucial for understanding the origins of humans and the diversity of hunter-gatherer ways of life. This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive synthesis of the record left by Africa's earliest hominin inhabitants and hunter-gatherers. It combines the insights of archaeology with those of other disciplines, such as genetics and palaeoenvironmental science. African evidence is critical to important debates, such as the origins of stone toolmaking, the emergence of recognisably modern forms of cognition and behaviour, and the expansion of successive hominins from Africa to other parts of the world. Africa's enormous ecological diversity and exceptionally long history also provide an unparalleled opportunity to examine the impact of environment change on human populations. African foragers have also long been viewed as archetypes of the hunter-gatherer way of life, a view that is debated in this volume. Also examined is their relevance for understanding the development and spread of food production and the social and ideological significance of the rock art that many of them have produced.
Foragers in the middle Limpopo Valley: Trade, Place-making, and Social Complexity
Title | Foragers in the middle Limpopo Valley: Trade, Place-making, and Social Complexity PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Forssman |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2020-09-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1789696860 |
Foragers were present in the Limpopo Valley (South Africa) before the arrival of farmers and not only witnessed but also participated in local systems leading to the appearance of a complex society. Despite numerous studies in the valley, forager involvement in socio-political developments has been, until now, largely ignored.
Lehithalekh A1al behonot
Title | Lehithalekh A1al behonot PDF eBook |
Author | Asher Shiloni |
Publisher | |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Proverbs, Hebrew |
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