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The Archaeological and linguistic reconstruction of African history
by Ehret, Christopher (editor); Posnansky, Merrick (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Extremely mild rubbing to corners, bright pages, tight binding, faint soiling to DJ, else Near Fine(+) in Near Fine(+) DJ.
- ISBN 10
- 0520045939
- ISBN 13
- 9780520045934
- Seller
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About This Item
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Extremely mild rubbing to corners, bright pages, tight binding, faint soiling to DJ, else Near Fine(+) in Near Fine(+) DJ.. Large octavo in white DJ, gilt to spine, vii, 299 pages, b&w illustrations ; 25 cm. Prehistoric peoples -- Africa -- Congresses. || Contents: The coming of Nubian speakers to the Nile Valley / William Y. Adams -- Linguistic aspects of greater Nubian history / Robin Thelwall -- Linguistic inferences about early Bantu history / Christopher Ehret -- Linguistic evidence for the eastward spread of Ubangian peoples / Douglas E. Saxon -- Prehistory and historical linguistics in Central Africa: points of contact / Nicholas David -- Archaeology and linguistic reconstructions of history in East Africa / Stanley H. Ambrose -- The first spread of food production to southern Africa / Christopher Ehret -- Models of the spread of the Early Iron Age / D.P. Collett -- Bantu expansion into East Africa: linguistic evidence / Derek Nurse -- Bantu expansion into eastern Africa: archaeological evidence / Robert Soper -- The peopling of southern Ghana: a linguistic viewpoint / M.E. Kropp Dakubu -- Archaeological and linguistic reconstruction in Ghana / Merrick Posnansky.
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- 88888
- Title
- The Archaeological and linguistic reconstruction of African history
- Author
- Ehret, Christopher (editor); Posnansky, Merrick (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Extremely mild rubbing to corners, bright pages, tight binding, faint soiling to DJ, else Near Fine(+) in Near Fine(+) DJ.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing (full number line)
- ISBN 10
- 0520045939
- ISBN 13
- 9780520045934
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1982
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cultural Studies;
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