Book
Three thousand years in Africa: man and his environment in the Lake Chad region of Nigeria
Cambridge University Press • Cambridge [Eng.] • Published In 1981 • Pages: xx, 268
By: Connah, Graham.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Based on the author’s fieldwork at several sites (most notably Daima) and prior investigations by others, this source describes the archaeology of the past three thousand years in the Lake Chad area (the Neolithic occurred before the earliest date for iron there, i.e. before 1950 BP). The region is subdivided into environmental zones in order to examine how humans adapted to each. The author made ethnographic observations at four sites in three of the four environmental zones as an aid to interpreting the archaeological data.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Geography
- Land use
- Bone, horn, and shell technology
- Ceramic technology
- Settlement patterns
- Weapons
- General tools
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- West African Neolithic
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2021
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1961-1971, 1978
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 3000-30 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Borno State, Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Graham Connah
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-263)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79041508
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- West African Neolithic
- Prehistoric peoples--Nigeria--Borno State
- Prehistoric peoples--Chad, Lake, Region
- Borno State (Nigeria)--Antiquities
- Nigeria--Antiquities
- Borno State (Nigeria)--History
- Chad, Lake, Region--History