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Ancient Africa : a global history, to 300 CE /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ehret, Christopher (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Africa > Civilization.
Africa > History > To 1498.
HISTORY / Africa / General.
Civilization.
Africa.
To 1498
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introducing the Issues and Themes
  • Chapter 2. African Firsts in the History of Technology
  • Ceramic Technology in World and African History
  • Women as Inventors and Innovators
  • Metallurgy in Ancient Africa
  • Historical Connections of Copper to Iron Metallurgy in Africa
  • Mechanical Invention in Early World and African History
  • Issues and Propositions
  • Chapter 3. Ancient Africa and the Export of Agricultural Innovation
  • The Era of Early Agriculture
  • African Agricultural Beginnings
  • Early Agriculture in West Africa
  • The Age of Agricultural Exchange
  • Chapter 4. Towns and Long-Distance Commerce in Ancient Africa
  • The West African Commercial Revolution
  • A Second African Commercial Revolution: The Congo Basin
  • Commercial "Revolutions" in the Global Frame
  • Chapter 5. The Africanity of Ancient Egypt
  • The Deep Background of Ancient Egyptian History, 20,000-6000 BCE
  • The Not-So-Deep-Time Story of Egypt's Foundations, 6000-3100 BCE
  • Chapter 6. Africa and Africans in Early Global History
  • Global History, 68,000-20,000 BCE
  • Global History, 20,000-9700 BCE
  • Global History, 9700 to the Sixth Millennium BCE
  • The Age of Agricultural Exchange, 6000-3000 BCE
  • Global History, 3000 BCE-300 CE
  • "Civilization"
  • Appendix: Considerations for Historians Reading Genetic Studies
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index