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Author: Graham Connah
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2019-01-31
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1784919594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about how the author became an archaeologist at a time when opportunities for employment were rare and how he worked as a field researcher in West Africa and wrote about his work there.
Author: Graham Connah
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Published: 2024-07-19
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1035845423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about the author’s time as an academic archaeologist attached to the University of New England, Armidale NSW, and the Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia. It continues the autobiographical account in Prelude, published in 2011 and From Cambridge to Lake Chad published in 2019. It discusses his experiences as a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Professor and Emeritus Professor. This memoir also considers the role of many other people with whom he was associated. Covering the period of 1971 to 2023, it charts the development of the field of archaeology in the Australian context.
Author: Graham Connah
Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
Published: 2019-01-31
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781784919580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about how the author became an archaeologist at a time when opportunities for employment were rare and how he worked as a field researcher in West Africa and wrote about his work there. It traces his archaeological training and employment at Cambridge and his practical experience on British excavations and explains how he became one of the pioneers of Nigerian archaeology during a decade in that country. It is not so much a study of the archaeology that was done, as an account of how it was done; its circumstances, organization, and economic and social and cultural context. As a result, it is both a professional and personal account, for these two aspects of life were inseparably intertwined, his wife Beryl becoming an integral part of the story. Other archaeologists and many non-archaeologists also feature in the account. The period in Nigeria from 1961 to 1971 included the Nigerian Civil War from 1967 to 1970, when archaeological work continued with difficulty. Both circumstances and preference meant that the author always worked with a labour team of Nigerians and with Nigerian assistants, of whom few had any experience in archaeology and none had any formal training; there were no postgraduates or others from outside the country. Success in excavations in Benin City, in the south of the country, and in Borno, in its far north-east, was as much the achievement of those Nigerians as it was the author's.
Author: Graham Connah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1981-02-19
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521228480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a natural history of Man in the Lake Chad region of Nigeria.
Author: Lucia Mori
Publisher: All’Insegna del Giglio
Published: 2013-12-01
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 8878145947
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents the results of the archaeological investigations in the oasis of Fewet (SW Libyan Sahara), carried out by the Archaeological Mission in the Sahara of the Sapienza University of Rome. Evidences of an ancient rural village were identified under the houses of the modern town of Tan Afella and a large necropolis, dated to the Garamantian times, spread at the fringes of the modern settlement. Until 1997 very little was known on the Garamantian period in the Wadi Tanezzuft area and on the transition from the pastoral to the early-historical phase. This period witnessed the gradual sedentarisation of human groups in the oases, and the development of caravan routes with the flourishing of an intra- and trans-Saharan trade. These processes, also influenced by significant alterations in climate, which led to the agricultural exploitation of the limited areas where water resources were available – the oases – were archaeologically unknown as far as settlements were concerned. The archaeological surveys and excavations carried out in the area of Fewet were particularly promising and are here analysed in a multidisciplinary perspective, which takes into consideration environmental and anthropological studies in the attempt to reconstruct the culture and the life of people inhabiting the Southern Fezzan region in early-historical times. «The historical archaeology of the Sahara remains an underdeveloped field of research, especially for the pre-Islamic period. The most significant exception to this rule has for long concerned the people known as the Garamantes, who inhabited the central Saharan region coincident with Libya’s south-west province, Fezzan. (…) This volume is a marvelous addition to the small corpus of published research on the Pre-Islamic oasis societies of the Sahara and provides a complementary perspective on the world of the Garamantes to the Anglo-Libyan work I have directed from their heartlands in the Wadi el-Ajal, c. 400 km to north-east of Ghat». Prof. David J. Mattingly, University of Leicester, UK.
Author: Martin Sterry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-26
Total Pages: 765
ISBN-13: 1108494447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ground-breaking volume pushes back conventional dating of the earliest sedentarisation, urbanisation and state formation in the Sahara.
Author: John Iliffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-07-13
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 1107198321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations.
Author: J. F. Jemkur
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kathleen Bickford Berzock
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-02-26
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 069118268X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIssued in conjunction with the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, held January 26, 2019-July 21, 2019, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Author: Mark Dike DeLancey
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2010-05-03
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 0810873990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCameroon is a country endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals, substantial forests, and a dynamic population. It is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. Although Cameroon has made economic progress since independence, it has not been able to change the dependent nature of its economy. The economic situation combined with the dismal record of its political history, indicate that prospects for political stability, justice, and prosperity are dimmer than they have been for most of the country's independent existence. The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon has been updated to reflect advances in the study of Cameroon's history as well as to provide coverage of the years since the last edition. It relates the turbulent history of Cameroon through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Cameroon history from the earliest times to the present.
