The Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa [Paperback]

This book provides the first detailed description of the prehistory of the Loango coast of west-central Africa over the course of more than 3000 years.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. Until the archaeological research presented in this book was carried out, there was little information about the region or its peoples prior to their first encounters with Europeans. James Denbow presents the detailed results of archaeological excavations at fifteen sites and situates these findings within the region's rich interplay of history, ethnography, politics, economics, and personalities. The resulting anthropology of archaeology highlights the connections between past and present in west-central and southern Africa.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. Until the archaeological research presented in this book was carried out, there was little information about the region or its peoples prior to their first encounters with Europeans. James Denbow presents the detailed results of archaeological excavations at fifteen sites and situates these findings within the region's rich interplay of history, ethnography, politics, economics, and personalities. The resulting anthropology of archaeology highlights the connections between past and present in west-central and southern Africa.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 lÃU