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Connah, Graham Edward was born on August 11, 1934 in Bromborough, Cheshire, England. Son of Edward Sydney and Blanche Connah.
( Forgotten Africa introduces the general reader and begi...)
Forgotten Africa introduces the general reader and beginning student to Africa's past, emphasizing those aspects only known or best known from archaeological and related evidence. It covers four million years of history across the continent, examining important aspects of Africa's momentous human story. Graham Connah is concerned to raise public awareness, both inside and outside Africa, to this frequently overlooked and often forgotten subject. Forgotten Africa examines: * human origins, * the material culture of hunter gatherers * the beginnings of African farming, the development of metallurgy * the emergence of distinctive artistic traditions * the growth of cities and states * the expansion of trading networks * the impact of European and other external contacts. The result is a fascinating and important story told in a straightforward and readable manner.
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(The Lake Chad region of Nigeria is an extreme environment...)
The Lake Chad region of Nigeria is an extreme environment: virtually treeless sand and a broiling clay plain in the fierce heat of the dry season, then much of it inundated and impassable in the wet season as whole areas turn into shallow lakes or marsh. Yet even this hostile landscape and climate have sustained human communities in continuous occupation for some three hundred years. Professor Connah traces the story of human adaptation to and exploitation of this unusual environment from prehistoric to modern times. He presents a natural history of Man in the region, based largely on archaeological data but drawing also on written evidence, ethnography and oral tradition to reconstruct human history and experience in this largely unknown area. This ecological approach therefore cuts across the conventional boundaries between academic disciplines and the book is intended for students of African history as well as of archaeology. It provides too the historical context in which modern development programmes for the region can be set and to some extent judged. The book is amply and well illustrated.
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(Three Thousand Years in Africa: Man and His Environment i...)
Three Thousand Years in Africa: Man and His Environment in the Lake Chad Region of Nigeria THREE THOUSAND YEARS IN AFRICA: MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT IN THE LAKE CHAD REGION OF NIGERIA By Connah, Graham ( Author )Jun-18-2009 Paperback By Connah, Graham ( Author ) Paperback 2009
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(This major new revised edition of African Civilizations r...)
This major new revised edition of African Civilizations reexamines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in tropical Africa over the past four thousand years and considers possible explanations of the developments that gave rise to it. Graham Connah focuses on urbanism and state formation in seven main areas of Africa: Nubia, Ethiopia, the West African savanna, the West African forest, the East African coast and islands, the Zimbabwe Plateau, and parts of Central Africa. Extensively illustrated and offering an extended bibliography, this book provides essential reading on the topic.
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Connah, Graham Edward was born on August 11, 1934 in Bromborough, Cheshire, England. Son of Edward Sydney and Blanche Connah.
Master of Arts in History and Archaeology, Cambridge University, 1959. Doctor of Letters, University New England, Armidale, New South Wales, 1984.
Research assistant Cambridge University, England, 1959—1961. Archaeologist Nigerian Federal Department Antiquities, Benin City, 1961—1964. Research fellow to senior research fellow University Ibadan, Nigeria, 1964—1971.
From lecturer to professor University New England, 1971—1995. Visiting fellow Australian National University, Canberra, since 1995.
(Three Thousand Years in Africa: Man and His Environment i...)
(The Lake Chad region of Nigeria is an extreme environment...)
(This major new revised edition of African Civilizations r...)
( Forgotten Africa introduces the general reader and begi...)
Fellow: Society Antiquaries London. Member: Order Australia.
Married Beryl Ethel Fletcher, February 9, 1963. Children: Alan Edward, Ian Robert, Sarah Anne.