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Contents 1. Africa: the birthplace of humanity 2. Stone tools and adaptation: the origins of the genus Homo 3. Africa's gift to the world: the earliest Homo sapiens 4. Living off the land: later hunter gatherers in Africa 5. Putting ideas on stone: the rock art of southern Africa 6. Pictures from a lost world: the rock art of the Sahara 7. Producing food: early developments in North and West Africa 8. Producing food: adaptation in North East and East Africa 9. The power of metal: the origins of African iron-working 10. Ancient Egypt: 3000 years of achievement 11. Nubia: a meeting place of different people 12. Aksum: a trading metropolis on the Ethiopian Plateau 13. Church and state: survival in Ethiopia 14. Opportunity and constraint: the Lake Chad story 15. Facing the Mediterranean: Carthaginian, Greek and Roman North Africa 16. Qsar es-Seghir: front door to Europe, front door to Africa 17. Jenné-jeno: an early city on the Middle Niger 18. Voyages in the Sahara: the desert trade with West Africa 19. Igbo-Ukwu: a challenge from the past 20. Ancestral faces: ancient sculpture in Nigeria 21. Benin City: from forest power to world fame 22. Pots and people: early farmers south of the Equator 23. The testimony of the dead: life in the Upemba Depression 24. 'One beautiful garden': production and power amongst the Great Lakes 25. Facing two worlds: the trading settlements of the East African coast 26. Projecting power: Great Zimbabwe and related sites 27. Deserted settlements with a story: later farmers in southern Africa 28. Outsiders on the inside: the impact of European expansion 29. Remembering Africa's past
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Africa Antiquities, Excavations (Archaeology) Africa