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Namib : The Archaeology of an African Desert

Author :  John Kinahan

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Country
Namibia
Publisher
University of Namibia (UNAM) Press, Windhoek, Namibia
ISBN 9789991642659
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2020
Bib. Info xxvi. 518p. Includes Index ; Bibliography
Product Weight 600 gms.
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This is a story of human survival over the last one million years in the Namib Desert ― one of the most hostile environments on Earth. The resilience and ingenuity of desert communities provides a vivid picture of our species’ response to climate change, and ancient strategies to counter ever-present risk. Dusty fragments of stone, pottery and bone tell a history of perpetual transition, of shifting and temporary states of balance. NAMIB digs beneath the usual evidence of archaeology to uncover a world of arcane rituals, of travelling rain-makers, of intricate social networks which maintained vital systems of negotiated access to scarce resources. This is more than a work of scientific research; it is a love-song to the desert and its people.

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