Cambridge University Press eBooks· 2013· Book chapter
The Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa
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Short summary
This book offers the first detailed description of the Loango coast's prehistory over 3,000 years, integrating archaeological data with historical, ethnographic, and political contexts.
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- Provides the first detailed description of the Loango coast's prehistory over 3,000+ years.
- Integrates archaeological data with historical, ethnographic, political, economic, and personal factors.
- Highlights the connections between past and present in west-central Africa.
- Focuses on a region critical to Bantu-speaking peoples' expansion.
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Abstract
The Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa provides the first detailed description of the prehistory of the Loango coast of west-central Africa over the course of more than 3,000 years. The archaeological data presented in this volume comes from a pivotal area through which, as linguistic and historical reconstructions have long indicated, Bantu-speaking peoples expanded before reaching eastern and southern Africa. Despite its historical importance, the prehistory of the Atlantic coastal regions of west-central Africa has until now remained almost unknown. James Denbow offers an imaginative approach to this subject, integrating the scientific side of fieldwork with the interplay of history, ethnography, politics, economics, and personalities. The resulting 'anthropology of archaeology' highlights the connections between past and present, change and modernity, in one of the most inaccessible and poorly known regions of west-central and southern Africa.
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