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| List of illustrations | |
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| Sources of illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Elucidating the African past | |
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| Archaeology in Africa | |
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| Linguistics | |
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| Oral traditions | |
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| Ethnoarchaeology | |
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| Africa in world prehistory | |
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| The emergence of humankind in Africa | |
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| Definition and process | |
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| World-wide precursors of the hominids | |
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| The earliest hominids | |
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| The oldest discoveries in eastern Africa | |
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| The Lake Turkana Basin and Olduvai Gorge | |
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| Central and south-central Africa | |
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| South Africa | |
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| The earliest tool-makers | |
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| The consolidation of basic human culture | |
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| Acheulean and Sangoan in Africa | |
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| Acheulean in eastern Africa | |
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| Acheulean in south-central Africa | |
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| Acheulean in southern Africa | |
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| Acheulean in West Africa and the Sahara | |
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| Acheulean in North Africa | |
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| Sangoan assemblages | |
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| Acheulean/Sangoan artefacts and their makers | |
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| Regional diversification and specialisation | |
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| The 'Middle Stone Age' and the 'Late Stone Age' | |
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| Southern Africa | |
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| South-central Africa | |
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| Rock art in southern and south-central Africa | |
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| Central Africa | |
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| Eastern Africa | |
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| West Africa | |
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| North Africa and the Sahara | |
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| Changing life-styles and technology | |
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| The beginnings of permanent settlement | |
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| North Africa, the Sahara and the Nile Valley | |
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| East Africa | |
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| Overview | |
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| African peoples 10,000 years ago | |
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| Early farmers | |
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| Cultivation and herding | |
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| The Sahara and North Africa | |
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| The Nile Valley | |
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| West and Central Africa | |
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| Ethiopia and the Horn | |
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| East Africa | |
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| Iron-using peoples before AD 1000 | |
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| Iron | |
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| North Africa | |
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| Egypt and the Arab invasion | |
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| The Sudan | |
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| Ethiopia and adjacent regions | |
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| West Africa | |
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| Central Africa | |
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| Eastern and southern Africa | |
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| The contribution of Bantu linguistic studies | |
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| Mode of dispersal | |
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| Madagascar and the Comoro Islands | |
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| Stone-tool-using herders of southwestern Africa | |
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| The second millennium AD in sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| The last 1000 years | |
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| West Africa | |
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| Ethiopia, the southern Sudan and adjacent regions | |
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| The east coast of Africa | |
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| Bantu-speakers north of the Zambezi | |
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| Southeastern Africa | |