Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Figures IX
4. An Introduction to an Introduction 1
5. I. General Perspectives: Historical Critique and the Evidence from Botany and Linguistics
6. Introduction 5
7. 1. A History and Critique of Investigations into Early African Agriculture 9
8. 2. Interactions of Food Production and Changing Vegetation in Africa 22
9. 3. Historical/Linguistic Evidence for Early African Food Production 26
10. II. Paleoenvironments and Ecological Adaptations
11. Introduction 37
12. A. NORTH AFRICA
13. 4. Paleoenvironments and Epi-Paleolithic Economies in the Maghreb (ca. 20,000 to 5000 B. P. ) 41
14. 5. Environment and Subsistence in Predynastic Egypt 57
15. 6. A Reappraisal of the Egyptian Predynastic 65
16. 7. Late Quaternary Prehistoric Environments in the Sahara 74
17. 8. Origins of the Neolithic in the Sahara 84
18. 9. The Emergence of Food Production in the Egyptian Sahara 93
19. 10. Long-Term Nile Flood Variation and Political Discontinuities in Pharaonic Egypt 102
20. 11. Prehistoric Cultural Continuity and Economic Change in the Central Sudan in the Early Holocene 113
21. 12. The Transition from Food Collecting to Food Production in Northern Africa 127
22. 13. Effects of Nutritional Change on the Skeletal Biology of Northeast African (Sudanese Nubian) Populations 132
23. B. WEST AFRICA
24. 14. Early Agricultural Societies in Ghana 147
25. 15. Archaeological Evidence and Effects of Food-Producing in Nigeria 152
26. 16. Early Iron Age Economy in the Inland Niger Delta (Mali) 158
27. C. EASTERN AFRICA
28. 17. New Perspectives on the Origins of Food Production in Ethiopia 173
29. 18. Human Skeletal Remains from Eastern Africa 191
30. 19. Early Evidence for Animal Domestication in Eastern Africa 200
31. 20. Late Prehistoric Aquatic and Pastoral Adaptations West of Lake Turkana, Kenya 206
32. 21. The Introduction of Pastoral Adaptations to the Highlands of East Africa 212
33. 22. Implications of a Faunal Assemblage from a Pastoral Neolithic Site in Kenya: Findings and a Perspective on Research 240
34. 23. Settlement Behavior of Pastoral Cultures in East Africa 252
35. 24. Holocene Human Evolution in Southern Africa 261
36. 25. Early Food-Production in Central and Southern Africa 272
37. 26. The Prehistory of Stone Age Herders in South Africa 281
38. III. The Transition from Hunting/ Gathering to Food Production: The Evidence from the San
39. Introduction 291
40. 27. Food Production and Culture Change among the !Kung San: Implications for Prehistoric Research 293
41. 28. The Effects of Food Production on Mobility in the Central Kalahari 311
42. 29. Foraging and Food Production among Kalahari Hunter/Gatherers 328
43. IV. Epilogue: Perspectives and Prospects
44. 30. Perspectives and Prospects for Understanding the Effects of Population on the Causes and Consequences of Food Production in Africa 351
45. List of Contributors 361
46. Bibliography 363
47. Index 421