The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. First edition, first printing (full number line). Large octavo in white DJ, gilt to spine, vii, 299 pages, b&w illustrations; 25 cm. Extremely mild rubbing to corners, bright pages, tight binding, faint soiling to DJ, else Near Fine(+) in Near Fine(+) DJ. Hardcover. ISBN: 0520045939

Prehistoric peoples -- Africa -- Congresses. Contents: The coming of Nubian speakers to the Nile Valley / William Y. Adams -- Linguistic aspects of greater Nubian history / Robin Thelwall -- Linguistic inferences about early Bantu history / Christopher Ehret -- Linguistic evidence for the eastward spread of Ubangian peoples / Douglas E. Saxon -- Prehistory and historical linguistics in Central Africa: points of contact / Nicholas David -- Archaeology and linguistic reconstructions of history in East Africa / Stanley H. Ambrose -- The first spread of food production to southern Africa / Christopher Ehret -- Models of the spread of the Early Iron Age / D.P. Collett -- Bantu expansion into East Africa: linguistic evidence / Derek Nurse -- Bantu expansion into eastern Africa: archaeological evidence / Robert Soper -- The peopling of southern Ghana: a linguistic viewpoint / M.E. Kropp Dakubu -- Archaeological and linguistic reconstruction in Ghana / Merrick Posnansky.