The civilizations of Africa : a history to 1800 / Christopher Ehret

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Notes: Reviewed by Roger Blench in African archaeological review (Dordrecht, Netherlands) 21 (4) December 2004, pages 239-242 (DT1.A2586 AFA); Reviewed by Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia in African studies review (New Brunswick, NJ) 46 (2) September 2003, pages 133-134. (DT1.A1 A26 AFA).; The 2016 reprint is reviewed by Andrea Felber Seligman in African studies review (Piscataway, NJ) 60 (1) April 2017, pages 201-203 (DT1.A1A26 AFA).
Contents: Introducing Africa and its history -- Africa before the agricultural age, 16,000-9000 BCE -- Culture and technology in Africa, 9000-3500 BCE -- Diverging paths of history : Africa 3500-1000 BCE -- An age of commerce, an age of iron : Africa, 1000 BCE to 300 CE -- Southern, central, and eastern Africa : the middle centuries, 300-1450 -- Northeastern, West, and North Africa : the middle centuries, 300-1450 -- The early Atlantic age, 1450-1640 -- Africa in the era of the Atlantic slave trade, 1640-1800