<HTML>Shaw, Sinclair, Andah & Okpoko (ed.) The Archaeology of Africa: Food, metals and towns
"Africa emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast, rich and complex past, with its intricate interweaving of peoples and cultures practising an enormous diversity of economic and social strategies in an extraordinary range of environmental situations. At long last the archaeology of Africa has revealed enough of Africa's unwritten past to confound preconceptions about this continent. Without an understanding of its past complexities, it is impossible to grasp Africa's present, elt alone its future."
I highly recommend it. It's revised papers from the 1st World Archaeology Conference.</HTML>
