The Peopling Of Africa
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The Peopling Of Africa
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Author : James L. Newman
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1995-01-01
The Peopling Of Africa written by James L. Newman and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Discovering the African past takes one on a journey back to the origins of humanity over four million years ago, which is where James L. Newman begins his account of the continent's peoples. He ends it at the onset of the colonial era in the late nineteenth century, noting that "Africa and Africans deserve to be known on their own terms, and to achieve this goal we need to improve our understanding of what took place before colonialism rewrote many of life's rules." African identities constitute one of Newman's main themes, and thus he discusses the roles played by genetic background, language, occupation, and religion. Population distribution is the other main theme running through the book. As a geographer, the author uses regions, spaces, and places as his filters for viewing how Africans have responded through time to differing natural and human environmental circumstances. Drawing on the fields of biology, archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, and demography, as well as geography, Newman describes the richness and diversity of Africa's inhabitants, the technological changes that transformed their lives, how they formed polities from small groups of kin to states and empires, and how they were influenced by external forces, particularly the slave trade. Maps are an important part of the book, conveying information and helping readers interrelate local, regional, continental, and global contexts.
The Peopling Of Southern Africa
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Author : R. R. Inskeep
language : en
Publisher: David Philip Publishers
Release Date : 1978
The Peopling Of Southern Africa written by R. R. Inskeep and has been published by David Philip Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Africa, Southern categories.
Out Of Africa S Eden
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Author : Stephen Oppenheimer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Out Of Africa S Eden written by Stephen Oppenheimer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Archaeology categories.
Africans
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Author : John Iliffe
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-08-13
Africans written by John Iliffe and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-13 with History categories.
In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the AIDS epidemic, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, and their social, economic and political institutions have been designed to ensure their survival. In the context of medical progress and other twentieth-century innovations, however, the same institutions have bred the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. Africans: The History of a Continent is thus a single story binding living Africans to their earliest human ancestors.
Africans
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Author : John Iliffe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Africans written by John Iliffe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
This history of Africa from the origins of mankind to the South African general election of 1994 refocuses African history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. The social, economic and political institutions of the African continent were designed to ensure survival and maximize numbers, but in the context of medical progress and other twentieth-century innovations these institutions have bred the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. The history of the continent is thus a single story binding living Africans to the earliest human ancestors.
The Real Eve
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Author : Stephen Oppenheimer
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2003-08-25
The Real Eve written by Stephen Oppenheimer and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-25 with Social Science categories.
Out of one, and only one, major exodus from Africa 80,000 years ago by migratory African ancestors was the entire non-African world in all its racial and cultural diversity ultimately populated—so argues Stephen Oppenheimer in this groundbreaking volume that has stirred heated controversy among authorities in geology, linguistics, archaeology, and anthropology. Thoroughly researched and meticulously argued, with dramatic evidence garnered from recent advances in the field of genetics through DNA analysis, Oppenheimer traces the evolution of modern humankind out of a common African ancestry. For again and again, Oppenheimer's extensive genealogical research, based on our gender-specific so-called Adam and Eve genes, has led him straight back to Africa and placed him in direct opposition to the multiregionalists. Whereas they maintain that archaic human populations, like the Neanderthals in Europe and Homo erectus in the Far East, evolved locally into the races we know today, Oppenheimer establishes that European Neanderthals, for instance, are not ancestors of modern humans but cousins who have stemmed from the same African root. Unsettling long-established anthropological and cultural assumptions—and prejudices—Oppenheimer's provocative exploration of our human origins provides a fresh new perspective on the nature of the human destiny that all of us share.
The Peopling Of Southern Africa
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Author : R. R. Inskeep
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
The Peopling Of Southern Africa written by R. R. Inskeep and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Africa, Southern categories.
Exploration
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Author : Stewart Angas Weaver
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015
Exploration written by Stewart Angas Weaver and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
This clear, succinct, and elegant contribution to the 'Very Short Introductions' series surveys the history of global exploration and assesses the motives, for good and ill, of those who undertook it. Stewart Weaver traces the history of exploration from the first explorers (including Polynesian and Micronesian peoples, the ancient Greeks, Marco Polo, and Ibn BattÐta), to the European discover of America, the Enlightenment and exploration (focusing on James Cook), and the race to the north and south poles
East Africa And The Orient
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Author : Harvard University. Center for International Affairs
language : en
Publisher: Africana Pub.
Release Date : 1975
East Africa And The Orient written by Harvard University. Center for International Affairs and has been published by Africana Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with History categories.
It is now apparent that East Africa cannot be viewed in isolation if its early history is to be adequately understood. Arabic, Indian, and Chinese influences have been discovered in the East African cultures, and evidence has shown that from about 100 B.C. the coastal fringe of eastern Africa was economically and culturally an integral part of the Indian Ocean basin. The available evidence relating to these early con-tacts is so scattered, however, that historians and archaeologists must rely on the findings of numerous related disciplines. The contributors to this volume make ingenious use of anthropological, geographical, ethnographical, zoological, linguistic, numismatic, and musicol-ogical evidence as they develop new historio-graphical techniques to open this challenging area of inquiry. Among them are the leading specialists in their respective fields: H Neville Chittick, Vinigi Grottanelli, Paul Wheatley, J S Trimingbam, Gervase Mathew, Pierre Wrin, Aldan Southall, Merrick Posnansky, James Kirkman, and Michael Gwynne. The topics in-vestigated include: the peopling of the East African coast, Chinese knowledge of East Africa, the Arab geographers, the problem of Malagasy origins, connections between the lacustrine peoples and the coast, and the origin and spread of various domestic food plants. Although there remain as many questions as answers, this volume serves as a vital summa-tion of our current knowledge and points the way toward further fruitful research in African history.
The Journey From Eden
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Author : Brian M. Fagan
language : en
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Release Date : 1990
The Journey From Eden written by Brian M. Fagan and has been published by Thames & Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Anthropology categories.
Discusses a controversial theory of common human ancestry in the form of one woman who lived in Africa approximately 150,000 years ago, and discusses the ways in which early humans evolved and spread out around the world