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Africa's Destroyed Civilization
Rexroth, Kenneth | December 26, 1959 issue

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This article focuses on the book "The Lost Cities of Africa," by Basil Davidson. It is both a sound historical and archaeological work and very exciting reading. The "Lost Cities of Africa" is the is a systematic, scientific and thoroughly up-to-date presentation of the history, prehistory, archaeology and prehistoric anthropology or human paleontology of all of Africa, except for the Moorish-Arab Northwest corner. All the major centers of civilization are treated in considerable detail. Since most of the material is archaeological and not literary, a history of Africa must perforce be a social and economic history rather than a political one.

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LOST Cities of Africa, The (Book); BOOKS; DAVIDSON, Basil, 1914-; AUTHORS; AFRICA -- History; AFRICA
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