[PDF] The African Iron Age eBook

Author : Roland Anthony Oliver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,71 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 : Roland Oliver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 50,52 MB
Release : 1975-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521205986

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Africa in the Iron Age is a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to African history between about 500 B.C. and A.D. 1400. The authors are not so much concerned with a particular technological revolution as the enormous changes - political, social and economic - that took place during the period 500 B.C.-A.D. 1400 all over the African continent. The book falls into three parts. Early chapters describe conditions about 500 B.C. when North Africa is already in the Bronze Age, Middle Africa is engaged in Stone Age farming and south of the Sahara most men live by hunting and gathering food. Between 500 B.C. and A.D. 1000 life in settled communities becomes normal throughout the continent. Finally, the Iron Age sees the rise of state systems, the development of long-distance trade and the spread of Islam and Monophysite Christianity. Any study of this period has to combine historical and archaeological methods in the search for evidence and in the subsequent interpretation of data. While literary evidence does exist for the period, Iron Age archaeology necessarily supplies most of the evidence examined. Roland Oliver is a leading African historian and the author of several standard books on the subject. Brian Fagan is an acknowledged expert on African Iron Age archaeology.

Author : Roland Oliver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 1975-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521205986

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Africa in the Iron Age is a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to African history between about 500 B.C. and A.D. 1400. The authors are not so much concerned with a particular technological revolution as the enormous changes - political, social and economic - that took place during the period 500 B.C.-A.D. 1400 all over the African continent. The book falls into three parts. Early chapters describe conditions about 500 B.C. when North Africa is already in the Bronze Age, Middle Africa is engaged in Stone Age farming and south of the Sahara most men live by hunting and gathering food. Between 500 B.C. and A.D. 1000 life in settled communities becomes normal throughout the continent. Finally, the Iron Age sees the rise of state systems, the development of long-distance trade and the spread of Islam and Monophysite Christianity. Any study of this period has to combine historical and archaeological methods in the search for evidence and in the subsequent interpretation of data. While literary evidence does exist for the period, Iron Age archaeology necessarily supplies most of the evidence examined. Roland Oliver is a leading African historian and the author of several standard books on the subject. Brian Fagan is an acknowledged expert on African Iron Age archaeology.

Author : P. L. Shinnie
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,20 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 : Randi Haaland
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,49 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.

Author : D. E. Needham
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 25,17 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 : Peter Ridgway Schmidt
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813013848

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Archaeological and ethnographic investigations in western Tanzania in the 1970s revealed remarkable evidence for a complex and highly advanced iron technology that existed there several thousand years ago. Still, Western scientific and historical practice continues to obscure the history of iron technology and its accomplishments in Africa. Weaving together myth, ritual, history, and science, this work describes the systems of smithing and iron smelting, some of which arose 2,000 to 2,500 years ago. Revealing the world of African technological achievement, the contributors to this work demonstrate that iron production there is a socially constructed activity and that its cultural and technological domains cannot be understood separately.

Author : James Denbow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 10,88 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.