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.
Abstract
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.
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Western Africa
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Sarah Berry; 2021
- Field Date
- 1961-1971, 1978
- Coverage Date
- 3000-30 BP
- Coverage Place
- Borno State, Nigeria
- Notes
- Graham Connah
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-263)
- LCCN
- 79041508
- LCSH
- 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