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The Archaeology of Africa (Record no. 575382)
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| fixed length control field | 01575nam a2200169Ia 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 250710s9999 xx 000 0 und d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780415084444 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 930.1 |
| Item number | SHA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Shaw, T. E. |
| 245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Archaeology of Africa |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | One World Archaeology |
| Year of publication | 1993 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 857 pages |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | The Archaeology of Africa, an anthology of essays, provides an overview of development in Africa from c. 8,000 B.C. to the present day, and also includes review chapters as well as other in-depth studies. A large proportion of the contributors live in Africa or are natives of the continent and therefore share an intimate knowledge of the region. The Africa which emerges from this book is far different from the vast and barren "dark continent" of popular myth. Although commonly perceived as an identitiless region content to absorb the cultures of its numerous colonizers, Africa instead emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and highly intricate amalgamation of peoples and cultures, an enormous diversity of economic and social strategies, as well as an amazingly heterogeneous number of environments. Archaeologists have unearthed enough of Africa's unwritten past to both confound preconceptions about this continent and further upset the so-called "truth" of historic written records. This book adheres to the principle that, without an understanding of this continent's history, it is impossible to grasp its present, let alone its future. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Social Science |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | English Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 7TH FLOOR, B WING | 10.07.2025 | 930.1 SHA | 175550 | 10.07.2025 | English Books |