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Frontmatter
List of Figures
An Introduction to an Introduction
I. General Perspectives: Historical Critique and the Evidence from Botany and Linguistics
Introduction
1. A History and Critique of Investigations into Early African Agriculture
2. Interactions of Food Production and Changing Vegetation in Africa
3. Historical/Linguistic Evidence for Early African Food Production
II. Paleoenvironments and Ecological Adaptations
Introduction
A. NORTH AFRICA
4. Paleoenvironments and Epi-Paleolithic Economies in the Maghreb (ca. 20,000 to 5000 B.P.)
5. Environment and Subsistence in Predynastic Egypt
6. A Reappraisal of the Egyptian Predynastic
7. Late Quaternary Prehistoric Environments in the Sahara
8. Origins of the Neolithic in the Sahara
9. The Emergence of Food Production in the Egyptian Sahara
10. Long-Term Nile Flood Variation and Political Discontinuities in Pharaonic Egypt
11. Prehistoric Cultural Continuity and Economic Change in the Central Sudan in the Early Holocene
12. The Transition from Food Collecting to Food Production in Northern Africa
13. Effects of Nutritional Change on the Skeletal Biology of Northeast African (Sudanese Nubian) Populations
B. WEST AFRICA
14. Early Agricultural Societies in Ghana
15. Archaeological Evidence and Effects of Food-Producing in Nigeria
16. Early Iron Age Economy in the Inland Niger Delta (Mali)
C. EASTERN AFRICA
17. New Perspectives on the Origins of Food Production in Ethiopia
18. Human Skeletal Remains from Eastern Africa
19. Early Evidence for Animal Domestication in Eastern Africa
20. Late Prehistoric Aquatic and Pastoral Adaptations West of Lake Turkana, Kenya
21. The Introduction of Pastoral Adaptations to the Highlands of East Africa
22. Implications of a Faunal Assemblage from a Pastoral Neolithic Site in Kenya: Findings and a Perspective on Research
23. Settlement Behavior of Pastoral Cultures in East Africa
D. SOUTHERN AFRICA
24. Holocene Human Evolution in Southern Africa
25. Early Food-Production in Central and Southern Africa
26. The Prehistory of Stone Age Herders in South Africa
III. The Transition from Hunting/Gathering to Food Production: The Evidence from the San
Introduction
27. Food Production and Culture Change among the !Kung San: Implications for Prehistoric Research
28. The Effects of Food Production on Mobility in the Central Kalahari
29. Foraging and Food Production among Kalahari Hunter/Gatherers
IV. Epilogue: Perspectives and Prospects
30. Perspectives and Prospects for Understanding the Effects of Population on the Causes and Consequences of Food Production in Africa
List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index
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