Three Thousand Years in Africa: Man and His Environment in the Lake Chad Region of Nigeria
Three Thousand Years in Africa: Man and His Environment in the Lake Chad Region of Nigeria
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非洲三千年：尼日利亚乍得湖地区的人类及其环境
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1983
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G. Connah
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K. Wesler;G. Connah
尼日利亚的乍得湖地区是一个极端的环境：在旱季的酷热中，几乎没有树木的沙子和灼热的粘土平原，然后在雨季，随着整个地区变成浅水湖或沼泽，大部分地区被淹没，无法通行。然而，即使是这种敌对的地形和气候，也使人类社会持续占领了大约300年。康纳教授追溯了从史前到现代人类适应和利用这种不寻常环境的故事。他介绍了该地区人类的自然历史，主要基于考古数据，但也借鉴了书面证据，民族志和口头传统，以重建人类历史和在这个基本上未知的领域的经验。因此，这种生态方法跨越了学科之间的传统界限，这本书是为非洲历史和考古学的学生准备的。它还提供了历史背景，在此背景下可以制定并在某种程度上判断该区域的现代发展方案。这本书内容丰富，插图精美。
The Lake Chad region of Nigeria is an extreme environment: virtually treeless sand and a broiling clay plain in the fierce heat of the dry season, then much of it inundated and impassable in the wet season as whole areas turn into shallow lakes or marsh. Yet even this hostile landscape and climate have sustained human communities in continuous occupation for some three hundred years. Professor Connah traces the story of human adaptation to and exploitation of this unusual environment from prehistoric to modern times. He presents a natural history of Man in the region, based largely on archaeological data but drawing also on written evidence, ethnography and oral tradition to reconstruct human history and experience in this largely unknown area. This ecological approach therefore cuts across the conventional boundaries between academic disciplines and the book is intended for students of African history as well as of archaeology. It provides too the historical context in which modern development programmes for the region can be set and to some extent judged. The book is amply and well illustrated.