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Africa and Africans in antiquity / edited by Edwin M. Yamauchi.

Contributor(s): Yamauchi, Edwin M | Conference on "Africa and Africans in Antiquity" (1991 : Miami University, etc.)
Publisher: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2001.Description: xv, 324 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0870135074 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Africa -- History -- To 1498 -- Congresses | Africa, North -- History -- To 647 -- Congresses | Africa -- Antiquities -- Congresses | Africa, North -- Antiquities -- CongressesDDC classification: 960.1
Contents:
Afroasiatic / Carleton T. Hodge -- Egypt and Nubia : Old, Middle, and New Kingdom eras / Frank J. Yurco -- Egypt and the Kushites : Dynasty XXV / Edna R. Russmann -- The Kingdom of Meroe / Stanley M. Burstein -- The Ballaña kingdom and culture : twilight of classical Nubia / William Y. Adams -- The Berbers of the Maghreb and ancient Carthage / Reuben G. Bullard -- An archaeological survey of the Cyrenaican and Marmarican regions of northeast Africa / Donald White -- Attitudes towards Blacks in the Greek and Roman world : misinterpretations of the evidence / Frank M. Snowden, Jr. -- Some remarks on the processes of state formation in Egypt and Ethiopia / Kathryn A. Bard and Rodolfo Fattovich -- Colonizing the past : origin myths of the great Zimbabwe ruins / Maynard W. Swanson.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Egypt and Sudan Shelves RA.AFR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 54063000070865
Book Book British Museum Egypt and Sudan Sars O.YAM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 000863
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Revision of papers originally presented at a conference on "Africa and Africans in Antiquity" on Mar. 1-2, 1991, at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Afroasiatic / Carleton T. Hodge -- Egypt and Nubia : Old, Middle, and New Kingdom eras / Frank J. Yurco -- Egypt and the Kushites : Dynasty XXV / Edna R. Russmann -- The Kingdom of Meroe / Stanley M. Burstein -- The Ballaña kingdom and culture : twilight of classical Nubia / William Y. Adams -- The Berbers of the Maghreb and ancient Carthage / Reuben G. Bullard -- An archaeological survey of the Cyrenaican and Marmarican regions of northeast Africa / Donald White -- Attitudes towards Blacks in the Greek and Roman world : misinterpretations of the evidence / Frank M. Snowden, Jr. -- Some remarks on the processes of state formation in Egypt and Ethiopia / Kathryn A. Bard and Rodolfo Fattovich -- Colonizing the past : origin myths of the great Zimbabwe ruins / Maynard W. Swanson.