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Region: Africa

A locally published guide to the natural wonders of Zambia – waterfalls, lakes and gorges – as well as its archaeological sites, such as the cave paintings in the many rock shelters in all parts of the country and the remains of several iron age settlements.

Region: Africa

Catalogue of an exhibition of West African art featuring in particular the Ashanti of Ghana, the Yoruba of Nigeria and the Baluba of the Congo. Specific sections feature masks, the Benin bronzes, and the influences of Western cultures on African art.

Region: Africa

A short history of the Berber dynasties followed by an introduction to the typology of Hispano-Moorish architecture leads the reader into a visitors guide to locations: Marrakesh, Tinmal, Rabat, Mehdia, Meknes, Fes, Taza, and Tlemcen in which the finest examples are discussed accompanied by archi

Region: Africa

A locally published guide to the Iron Age ruins of what is considered a royal settlement of ancestors of the Shona, the major part of whose construction is thought to date from C14th, and represents the largest African prehistoric monument other than the pyramids of Egypt and is now a UNESCO Worl

Region: Africa

Academic treatise on the palaeoenvironment, ethnobotany and the spread of agriculture in prehistoric Zimbabwe with specific archaeobotanical case studies of cave settlements and early farming communities, including that of Great Zimbabwe.

Region: Africa

This book attempts a complete overview of the prehistory and history of the African continent commencing with dynastic Egypt and the Meroe civilisation in the Upper Nile, followed by the Greek and Roman influence on North Africa.

Region: Africa

An illustrated tourist guide to the ruined villas, theatres, baths and harbour of Carthage.  Many excellent colour photographs, maps and site plans.  Paperback.  This is the 1995 enlarged 2nd edition of 91 pages.  Good condition.  Cat No 3818

Region: Africa

Conference proceedings including papers on:  Pre-colonial Tswana; Stone ruins of the Mpumalanga Escarpment; Trade beds from the Southern African interior; Pottery of the Kekana Ndebele; Rediscovering the Ndwande kingdom; Archaeology and the oral tradition of the Swazi.

Region: Africa

An important 1970 facsimile reprint of an academic anthropological survey researching and recording every aspect of Bubi society, culture, religion and economy on the West African island of Fernando Poo at the beginning of the C20th.

Region: Africa

Report on the collection and analysis of pottery sherds collected from Iron Age occupation sites along the shores of Lake Malawi with attempts to assign decorative variations to either the Early or Late Iron Age as well as speculation that certain patterns may persist to this day in local wall de