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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Africa
		The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Suez Canal and the Red Sea to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.
		Africa boasts perhaps the world's largest combination of density and "range of freedom" of wild animal populations and diversity, with wild populations of large carnivores (such as lions, hyenas, and cheetahs) and herbivores (such as buffalo, deer, elephants, camels, and giraffes) ranging freely on primarily open non-private plains.
		Africa is considered by most paleoanthropologists to be the oldest inhabited territory on earth, with the human species originating from the continent.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Africa (6587 words)

	Prehistory Encyclopedia Article @ PSAMathe.com (PSA Mathe) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Prehistory can be said to date back to the beginning of the universe itself, although the term is most often used to describe periods when there was life on Earth; dinosaurs can be described as prehistoric animals and cavemen are described as prehistoric people.
		Nevertheless, the primary scholars of Human prehistory are prehistoric archaeologists and physical anthropologists who use excavation, geographic survey, and scientific analysis to reveal and interpret the nature and behavior of pre-literate and non-literate peoples.
		North Pacific Prehistory is an academic journal specialising in Northeast Asian and North American archaeology.
	www.psamathe.com /encyclopedia/Prehistory (705 words)

	History of North Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		North Africa is a relatively thin strip of land between the Sahara and the Mediterranean stretching from Egypt to the Atlantic.
		However, Rome, Carthage's major rival to the north, defeated it in a series of wars known as the Punic Wars, resulting in Carthage's destruction in 146 BC and the annexation of its empire by the Romans.
		During the 18th and 19th century, North Africa was colonized by France, the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_North_Africa (1038 words)

	Africa Continents Facts \| 4 Corners Club
		Africa is thus composed of two segments at right angles, the northern running from east to west, the southern from north to south, the subordinate lines corresponding in the main to these two directions.
		Africa is home to the oldest inhabited territory on earth, with the human race originating from this continent.
		In South Africa, which was unique in having a significant number of European settlers, English and Afrikaans are the native languages of a significant portion of the population.
	www.4cornersclub.com /adventure_trips/africa/continent_facts (2282 words)

	Algeria - PREHISTORY OF CENTRAL NORTH AFRICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		According to some sources, North Africa was the site of the highest state of development of Middle Paleolithic flake-tool techniques.
		The amalgam of peoples of North Africa coalesced eventually into a distinct native population that came to be called Berbers.
		Distinguished primarily by cultural and linguistic attributes, the Berbers lacked a written language and hence tended to be overlooked or marginalized in historical accounts.
	countrystudies.us /algeria/4.htm (300 words)

	Central Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		To the north are the Sierra de Pachuca mountains, to the east are the Sierra Nevada range, to the south lie the Sierra de Ajusco, and finally to the west are the Sierra de las Cruces range.
		In Central Mexico, there is little native vegetation left because of the European conquest.
		Central Mexico also contains many of the wild species of plants and animals that Guerrero does, such as the iguana, the white-tail deer and jaguars.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/latinamerica/geography/central_mexico.html (333 words)

	African Farming Development
		North Africa deployed mostly Mediterranean style farming and crops.
		Yams are central, not only in the diets of the Yam-eating tribes, but also in their ceremony, ritual, myth and folklore." (pg.
		Irrigation in the dry areas of the north were done by springs and shallow wells brought by delou which is a water skin of ox-hide or goat skin or by a noria which is an endless circle of wood with scoops attached to bring up water.
	www.historylink101.com /lessons/farm-city/africa1.htm (845 words)

	Algeria
		Called the "granary of the empire," North Africa, according to one estimate, produced 1 million tons of cereals each year, one-quarter of which was exported.
		A division in the church that came to be known as the Donatist controversy began in 313 among Christians in North Africa.
		North African rulers engaged in it increasingly in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century because it was so lucrative, and because their merchant vessels, formerly a major source of income, were not permitted to enter European ports.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/algeria/all.html (18075 words)

	Prehistory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Prehistory – the span of human existence before the advent of written records, the past 2.5 million years.
		Centralized power of pharaoh—unlike earlier which saw the divisions between Upper and Lower Egypt.
		Appointed local governors ("nomarchs")—to extract local resources and they were frequently moved about so as not to build up a local power base and so as not to be able to pass down their nomes to the heirs.
	faculty.ccri.edu /lemery/Prehistory1.htm (5880 words)

	Mr. Dowling's Africa Today Page
		The result is a stunning landscape stretching from Mozambique in the south, to Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Sudan in the north.
		Most of equatorial Africa, or land near the equa-tor, is a lush, tropical rainforest.
		North and south of the rainforests are savannas, areas with tall grasses and scattered trees and bushes.
	www.mrdowling.com /611africatoday.html (330 words)

	Algeria: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
		Prehistory of Central North Africa: Early inhabitants of the central Maghrib (also seen as Maghreb; designates North Africa west of Egypt) left behind significant remains including remnants of hominid occupation from ca.
		North Africa During the Classical Period: Phoenician traders arrived on the North African coast around 900 B.C. and established Carthage (in present-day Tunisia) around 800 B.C. During the classical period, Berber civilization was already at a stage in which agriculture, manufacturing, trade, and political organization supported several states.
		Privateering was an age-old practice in the Mediterranean, and North African rulers engaged in it increasingly in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries because it was so lucrative.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/new_profiles/788.html (4472 words)

	Chinese History - Prehistoric cultures of China (www.chinaknowledge.de)
		Although the development of the primate ordo took place in Africa, there are hominoid fossils found in Europe and Asia by 17 to 11 million years ago.
		Although the cultures in the Central Plain played an important role, the prehistoric cultures of the other regions were also developing simultaneously with their own characteristics, as is increasingly proven by archeological finds.
		Characteristics of the Longshan culture that dominated the Central Plain from the late 4th millenium on are town enclosures made of stamped-earth, thin and polished fl pottery produced with a wheel, oracles made of burned and cracked scapulas.
	www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Myth/prehistory-event.html (1547 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Prehistoric basis for the rise of civilisation in Sri Lanka and southern India
		His doctoral studies were conducted at Harvard University, and his dissertation, "Prehistory of Sri Lanka: an Ecological Perspective" was later published by the Sri Lankan government.
		We were flattered to hear from her that her research programme was sparked off by what was done by the Archaeological Survey Department in Sri Lanka and publication of the results in a monograph called, "The Prehistory of Sri Lanka".
		It is very important that this is firmly established, for this is the commencement of a new line of research, which can have tremendous implications for world anthropology.
	www.lankalibrary.com /geo/prehistory.htm (2970 words)

	Introduction to Texas Panhandle Prehistory
		When a timeline is developed that considers evidence and artifacts based on first inhabitants in the Panhandle region there is no evidence that shows any culture predating the Paleo-Indians.
		The mammoth and other Pleistocene epoch animals like the saber tooth tiger, camels and various types of horses were extinct by 8000 BC which marks the end of the Pleistocene period.
		Thus, the existence of Paleo-Indian remains at Miami nearly coincide with their earliest existence on the North American continent which is dated by the “Clovis first” theory at 11,200 BC.
	www.panhandlenation.com /prehistory/intro.htm (716 words)

	World History Connected \| Vol. 2 No. 1 \| David Northrup: Suggested Readings in African History for Non-specialists: An ...
		A fair-minded exposé of the historiographical roots and fallacies of the group of ideologies that have a strong hold on a segment of African-American visions of Africa.
		The chapters on Islam in Africa are exemplary in their quality and clarity.
		This early modern African life, not of a slave but of a young woman in Angola who believed she was possessed by St. Anthony, illuminates Africa from within and draws the reader into a world not in the textbooks.
	worldhistoryconnected.press.uiuc.edu /2.1/northrup.html (1175 words)

	Sixth Emeritus Lecture Honoring J. Desmond Clark - Biographical Information - J. Desmond Clark, by Fred Wendorf
		He was beginning to play an important role in the study of African prehistory, although he remained relatively unknown outside the continent, where he was regarded as a capable and dedicated professional working in what most scholars then believed was an archaeological backwater.
		His most important synthesis was Prehistory of Africa (1970), which traced cultural development from the earliest stone tools to the period of European contact and placed this sequence in the context of regional climatic changes through time.
		"The Geomorphology and Archaeology of Adrar Bous, Central Sahara.
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /Anthro/clark/bio/wendorf.html (5459 words)

	TVM Entry Floor: Prehistoric Artifacts Room Introduction
		The alternative is the out-of-Africa model, in which the hominids from Africa spread out and settled the rest of the world.
		There is a compromise idea which assumes that the hominids from Africa spread throughout the world, met, mated with and conquered or assimilated local native hominids.
		To put this all in perspective, the current commonly accepted theory is that earliest man developed in Africa and over long periods of time migratory waves of humans swept through the Middle East and Central Asia which populated the rest of the world.
	www.tigtail.org /TIG/L_View/TVM/E/PreHistory/prehistory.html (1014 words)

	A Prehistory of the North (John Hoffecker) - review
		The Vikings reached Greenland before the Inuit, but unlike the latter they were unable to cope when temperatures dropped after the Medieval Warm Period; their basically European economy and technology was not readily adapted to northern latitudes.
		A Prehistory of the North begins with this recent episode, but is otherwise a chronological account of early human settlement of the Arctic and sub-Arctic.
		Anatomically equatorial, their success may have depended on technology and language, though teasing that out from traces of their art and material culture is difficult.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Prehistory_North.html (797 words)

	Prehistory past present future
		Consistently, scenes involving death were placed on east and north walls, where the dead were interred, whereas scenes involving birth appeared on west walls and bulls on north walls.
		The general boundaries were the Black Sea to the north, the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Dardanelles to the northwest, The Aegean Sea to the west, The Mediterranean Sea to the south.
		Their books and the entire genre often suggest a conspiracy to repress secret knowledge by powerful forces as well as an assumption the remarkable coincidences should be articulated regardless if they have any causal relation and even sometimes its seems their significance is less than remarkable.
	www.carnaval.com /prehistory (2159 words)

	African Studies
		Although the University Museum has encouraged archaeological and ethnographic research in Africa since the late nineteenth century, African Studies as a formal academic program began at Penn with the creation of the University Committee on African Studies in 1942 through the joint efforts of Zellig Harris, then in Oriental Studies, and the University Museum.
		Although graduate interest in Africa is very strong, with 91 Penn dissertations written on African topics between 1989 and 1998, no graduate degree in African Studies is offered at Penn. Instead, a graduate Certificate in African Studies is offered to all M.A. and Ph.D. students, with coursework in development, humanities, and social sciences.
		As reliable delivery from Africa is the most critical issue in serials management, discussions are in progress with the Library of Congress, Nairobi Field Office, to participate in their acquisitions program.
	www.library.upenn.edu /collections/policies/african.html (2313 words)

	History of Algeria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fertile coastal plain of North Africa, especially west of Tunisia, is often called the Maghreb (or Maghrib).
		Phoenician traders arrived on the North African coast around 900 B.C. and established Carthage (in present-day Tunisia) around 800 B.C. During the classical period, Berber civilization was already at a stage in which agriculture, manufacturing, trade, and political organization supported several states.
		The introduction of Islam and Arabic had a profound impact on North Africa (or the Maghreb) beginning in the seventh century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Algeria (3900 words)

	African Rock Art of the Central Zone \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The shaded portion indicates the extent of the central zone of African rock art, principally comprised of finger-painted, monochromatic geometric images.
		Emerging from the Central African plateau are isolated hills such as this one in Malawi.
		Of the three zones, the art of Central Africa is the least studied and least well understood.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/croc/hd_croc.htm (366 words)

	BioMed Central \| Full text \| Most of the extant mtDNA boundaries in South and Southwest Asia were likely shaped during ...
		This star-like cluster (Figure 9) is spread at low frequencies across India, with the exceptions of the very north and the coast of the Arabian Sea (Figure 2, panel M18).
		Although haplogroup W is not highly frequent in European populations, it is nevertheless quite common [9], reaching the highest frequencies among the central-northern Finns (9% [40]).
		The samples cover a wide geographical range that spans from Himachal Pradesh in the north, Sri Lanka in the south, West Bengal in the east and Gujarat in the west (Table 1).
	www.biomedcentral.com /1471-2156/5/26 (8014 words)

	American Colonization Society
		Most of its members were from religious groups, especially the Society of Friends, in the North or were slaveowners from Upper South states like Kentucky and Virginia.
		Its members realized that many whites, both in the North and in the South, feared an end to slavery because they did not want to face competition from or live next to former slaves.
		When given the choice between life as a slave or freedom in Africa, most slaves chose to remain as slaves in the United States.
	www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=834 (327 words)

	Capsian culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Iberomaurusian practice of evulsion of the central incisors continued sporadically, but became rarer.
		The Capsian culture is identified by some historical linguists as a possible ancestor of the speakers of modern Berber languages in North Africa.
		The Eburran culture of the 13th-8th millennia BC in Kenya is also termed the "Kenya Capsian", due to similarities in the stone blade shapes; it is unclear whether this culture is to be linked with the North African Capsian culture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Capsian_culture (406 words)

	THE COMPARATIVE ARCHAEOLOGY WEB ©
		In-between Glaciers: New Evidence of Fauna and Flora of the Eem Period in Central Europe.
		The Chronology of North America with summaries of individual phases and cultures.
		Central Anatolian Neolithic e-Workshop with data sets, articles, maps, etc. on the Neolithic of Central Anatolia 9th - 6th millennia cal BC.
	www.comp-archaeology.org (524 words)

	P314 week 1 notes Fall 2000
		The literate civilizations of North Africa were looked at in a Biblical context, or in terms of the classical world of Greece, Rome and Babylon.
		The Romans and Greeks had traded across the Sahara, and, in fact, the first MAPS of Africa were produced by Arabian traders (e.g.
		Sub-Saharan Africa, on the other hand, was viewed largely in the racist context of the slave trade -- and Europeans were convinced that Africa and Africans had NO HISTORY or culture.
	www.indiana.edu /~origins/teach/P314/p3142000wk1.html (492 words)

	SCIENCE, Vol. 263, 2/4/94, p. 611-612 Did Early Humans Reach Siberia 500,000 Years Ago? by
		But now, thanks to a reexamination of the material and high-tech geologic dating methods, those skeptics are beginning to think that while Mochanov may not rewrite prehistory completely, he may be able to revise a chapter about Homo erectus, a human ancestor who lived from approximately 1.7 million years to 200,000 years ago.
		Mochanov and Fedoseeva had seen similar tools before, but they came from East Africa, and they were 2.4 million years old, the earliest known tools made by human ancestors.
		Waters suspects the site is at a high enough latitude that, even during a warm interglacial period, the climate would be similar to the climate today-- and that can be chilly indeed.
	www.skepticfiles.org /evo2/mannorth.htm (1426 words)

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