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Africa : the birthplace of humanity --
Stone tools and adaptation : the origins of the genus Homo --
Africa's gift to the world : the earliest Homo sapiens --
Living off the land : later hunter gatherers in Africa --
Putting ideas on stone : the rock art of southern Africa --
Pictures from a lost world : the rock art of the Sahara --
Producing food : early developments in North and West Africa --
Producing food : adaptation in North-East and East Africa --
The power of metal : the origins of African iron-working --
Ancient Egypt : 3000 years of achievement --
Nubia : a meeting place of different people --
Aksum : a trading metropolis on the Ethiopian Plateau --
Church and state : survival in Ethiopia --
Opportunity and constraint : the Lake Chad story --
Facing the Mediterranean : Carthaginian, Greek and Roman North Africa --
Qsar es-Seghir : front door to Europe, front door to Africa --
Jenné-jeno : an early city on the Middle Niger --
Voyages in the Sahara : the desert trade with West Africa --
Igbo-Ukwu : a challenge from the past --
Ancestral faces : ancient sculpture in Nigeria --
Benin City : from forest power to world fame --
Pots and people : early farmers south of the Equator --
The testimony of the dead : life in the Upemba Depression --
'One beautiful garden' : production and power amongst the Great Lakes --
Facing two worlds : the trading settlements of the East African coast --
Projecting power : Great Zimbabwe and related sites --
Deserted settlements with a story : later farmers in Southern Africa --
Outsiders on the inside : the impact of European expansion --
Remembering Africa's past. |
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