[PDF] Africa In The Iron Age eBook

Author : Roland Anthony Oliver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 1975-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521099004

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A textbook providing the only comprehensive and up-to-date account of African history between 500 B.C. and 1400 A.D. Also useful to students of archaeology.

Author : P. L. Shinnie
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN :

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"The advance in knowledge of the archaeology of the Iron Age in Africa during the last twenty years is one of the most significant developments of archaeology anywhere. Going hand in hand with new historical research there is now a large and growing body of information on the subject. This book endeavours to give in concise but accurate form a summary of what is known. The authors, most of whom are still actively at work in the field, are all authorities in their own areas and several of them have been pioneers in developing archaeology in Africa. It is hoped that the book may prove of use to nonspecialists who would like to know of recent developments as well as to the growing number of students of the subject"--

Author : D. E. Needham
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Africa, Central
ISBN : 9780582651111

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This new edition of the popular school history book has been thoroughly revised to bring it fully up to date. It provides a stimulating account of Central African history from the Iron Age to the liberation struggle and the successful achievement of Zimbabwe's national independence.

Author : James Denbow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1107040701

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This book provides the first detailed description of the prehistory of the Loango coast of west-central Africa over the course of more than 3000 years.

Author : JOSEPH O. VOGEL
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 9780367605278

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This research guide was written as a comprehensive, though by no means exhaustive, survey of the literature pertinent to studying the indigenous complex societies of south central Africa.

Author : J M Coetzee
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 024197545X

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Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in his Sunday Express Book of the Year award-winner Age of Iron. In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and the brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face to face with its true horrors: the hounding by the police of her servant's son, the burning of a nearby black township, the murder by security forces of a teenage activist who seeks refuge in her house. Through it all, her only companion, the only person to whom she can confess her mounting anger and despair, is a homeless man who one day appears on her doorstep. In Age of Iron, J. M. Coetzee brings his searing insight and masterful control of language to bear on one of the darkest episodes of our times. 'Quite simply a magnificent and unforgettable work' Daily Telegraph 'A superbly realized novel whose truth cuts to the bone' The New York Times 'A remarkable work by a brilliant writer' Wall Street Journal South African author J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice for his novels Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K. His novel, Foe, an exquisite reinvention of the story of Robinson Crusoe is also available in Penguin paperback.

Author : Thomas N. Huffman
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :

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This detailed handbook to the Iron Age covers the last 2,000 years in Southern Africa. The first part of the book outlines essential topics such as settlement organization, stonewalled patterns, ritual residues, long-distance trade, and ancient mining. Part two presents a comprehensive culture-history sequence through ceramic analyses, showing distributions, stylistic types, and characteristic pieces. The final section reviews and updates the main debates about black prehistory, including migration vs. diffusion, the role of cattle, the origins of Mapungubwe, the rise and fall of Great Zimbabwe, as well as the archaeology of the Venda, the Sotho-Tswana, and the Nguni speakers. Handbook to the Iron Age is an abundantly illustrated study that is accessible to a wide range of people interested in African prehistory.

Author : Randi Haaland
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 30,17 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :

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Iron working has a long and rich history in Africa--it was decisive for the development of many African cultures and states, and its study is now yielding results of great significance. This book, a collection of articles by archaeologists and enthnographers from the USA, Africa, and Europe, explores the development of the iron working processes, the reasons for local variation, the role of iron workers in ancient and modern societies, and the way in which iron production changed society.