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ARCHAEOLOGY Graham Connah. Forgotten Africa: An Introduction to Its Archaeology. London: Routledge, 2004. xiii + 193 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $33.95. Paper.
Graham Connah has produced a book that should be very useful to a wide range of readers. He makes four million years of the African past accessible to a general readership through this book of twenty-nine short chapters, each written in clear and nontechnical language. In his introduction, Connah comments that while there are a number of solid works on African archaeology, they are generally directed to fellow archaeologists, and thus are frequently overlooked by the nonspecialist reader. The chapters in this book, averaging about six pages each, are organized around specific themes, such...