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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| About the Editor | |
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| List of Contributors | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| African Environments | |
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| Geography and Geology | |
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| Pleistocene and Holocene Climates and Vegetation Zones | |
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| Modern Climates and Vegetation Zones | |
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| Quaternary Environment | |
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| Disease as a Factor in African History | |
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| Histories of Research | |
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| Archaeology in Africa: Its Influence | |
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| Historiography in Africa | |
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| Pan Africanism, Diffusionism, and the Afrocentric Idea | |
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| Western Africa: History of Archaeology | |
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| Horn of Africa: History of Archaeology | |
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| Southern and Eastern Africa: History of Archaeology | |
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| Search for Human Origins in Africa: A Historical Note | |
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| Language Studies in Africa | |
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| Technology | |
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| Stoneworking Technology | |
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| Stoneworking Technology: Its Evolution | |
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| Pottery Manufacture | |
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| Copper Metallurgy | |
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| Ironworking Technology | |
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| Ironworking in its Cultural Context | |
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| Architecture and Settlement Patterns | |
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| People and Culture | |
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| African Languages: A Historical Survey | |
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| Languages of Eastern and Southern Africa in Historical Perspective | |
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| Western African Languages in Historical Perspective | |
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| African Foragers | |
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| Eastern African Foragers | |
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| Southern African Foragers | |
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| Forager Hunting Tools and Methods | |
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| Northeastern African Pastoralists | |
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| Eastern African Pastoralists | |
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| Southern African Pastoralists | |
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| Farming Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| Farming Methods | |
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| Food Crops | |
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| Eastern African Terraced-Irrigation Systems | |
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| Stone-Walled Agricultural Communities of South Africa and Botswana | |
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| Northern African Ethnoarchaeology | |
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| Western African Ethnoarchaeology | |
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| Prehistory of Africa | |
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| Hominid Origins | |
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| Modern Human Origins | |
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| Human Populations: Their Archaeometry | |
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| Early African Hominids: Behavior and Environments | |
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| Primate Behavior as a Precursor of Human Behavior | |
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| Human Behavior: Its Evolution | |
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| Early Human Diets | |
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| Early Hominid Foraging Strategies | |
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| Earliest African Cultures | |
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| Western Africa: The Prehistoric Sequence | |
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| Central African Transitional Cultures | |
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| African Cultures in Transition and Adaptation | |
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| Northern African Advanced Foragers | |
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| Western African and Southern Saharan Advanced Foragers | |
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| Eastern African Advanced Foragers | |
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| Southern African Advanced Foragers | |
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| Saharan Rock Art | |
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| Western African Rock Art | |
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| Ethiopia and the Horn: Rock Art | |
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| Eastern African Rock Art | |
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| Central African Rock Art | |
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| Southern African Rock Art | |
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| African Neolithic | |
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| Nile Valley: Pre-Agricultural Cultures | |
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| Saharan Neolithic | |
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| The Late Stone Age and Neolithic Cultures of West Africa and the Sahara | |
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| Foragers and Farmers: Their Interaction | |
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| Egypt: Beginnings of Agriculture | |
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| Agricultural Beginnings in Sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| Animal Domestication in Africa | |
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| Western African Iron Age | |
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| Equatorial African Iron Age | |
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| Bantu Expansion | |
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| Eastern and South-Central African Iron Age | |
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| Southern African Iron Age | |
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| Development of States in Sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| Urbanism in Sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| Egypt and Sub-Saharan Africa: Their Interaction | |
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| Egypt: Emergence of State Society | |
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| The Near East and Eastern Africa: Their Interaction | |
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| Northeastern African States | |
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| Western African States | |
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| Savanna States | |
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| Lacustrine States | |
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| Swahili and the Coastal City-States | |
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| Zambezian States | |
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| Precolonial Towns of Zambezia | |
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| Western African and Western Saharan Trade | |
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| Slave Trade in Africa | |
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| Salt Production and the Salt Trade | |
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| Southeastern African Gold Mining and Trade | |
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| Indian Ocean Trade | |
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| Western African Historical Archaeology | |
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| Eastern African Historical Archaeology | |
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| Central and Southern African Historical Archaeology | |
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| Maritime Archaeology | |
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