TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ki-zerbo, J.[et al ]
TI  - General history of Africa 1: methodology and African prehistory 
SN  - 9780852550915
AV  - DT20  .G464 1990
PY  - 1990///
CY  - New York
PB  - James Currey
N1  - Includes Bibliography and index; The  development of Africa historiography -- The place of history in Africa society -- recent trends in African historiography and their contribution to history in general --Sources and specific technique used in African history : a n general outline -- Written sources before the fifteenth century -- Written sources before the fifteenth century onward -- Oral tradition and its methodology --The living tradition and its methodology -- African archaeology and its techniques, including dating -- History and linguistics, and theories on the races and history of Africa -- Migrations and ethnic and linguistic differentiation --African linguistic classification and language map of Africa -- Historical geography:physical aspects -- Historical geography: economic aspects -- The interdisciplinary methods and adopted in this study -- chronological framework: African pluvial and glacial epochs -- Homonization; the general problems -- Africa fossil man -- The prehistory East Africa --  The prehistory southern  Africa -- The prehistory Central Africa -- The prehistory North Africa -- The prehistory Sahara -- The prehistory West Africa -- The prehistory Nile valley -- African pre-historic art -- The origins ,development and expansion of agricultural techniques -- discovery and diffusion of metals and the development of social systems until the fifth century before the christian era
ER  -