The Sahara, ecological change and early economic history
By: edited by J.A. Allan ; with contributions by G. Barker ... [et al.].
Contributors: Allan, J. A.; Barker, Graeme.; University of London. Centre of African Studies.; University of London. Centre of Middle Eastern Studies.
Series: Menas monographs ;; no. 1
Publisher: Middle East & North African Studies Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Outwell, Cambridgeshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Economics, Prehistoric -- Sahara -- Congresses.; Climatic changes -- Sahara -- Congresses.; Sahara -- Economic conditions -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
"The proceedings of a conference convened by the Centre of African Studies, in association with the Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London."
Table of contents: title: Introduction / J.A. Allan; title: Recent developments in research into the Quarternary climatic history of the Sahara / Alayne Street and Françoise Gasse; title: Late Pleistocene and recent climatic changes in the Egyptian Sahara / A. Gautier; title: Saharan climates in historic times / Sharon Nicholson; title: The climate of the Sahara in the period of meteorological records / A.T. Grove; title: Northern Africa during the late Palaeolithic / C.B.M. McBurney; title: Aspects of human activity in the coastal occidental Sahara in the last 10,000 years / Nicole Petit-Maire; title: The late Stone Age in West Africa / Thurstan Shaw; title: Early agriculture and economic change in North Africa / G. Barker.