Africa Info

It is useful to understand how African environments seem to have changed during the last 20,000 years when looking at the evidence for food production on the continent.

Vegetation map of Africa during the extreme cold/dry last glacial period

Vegetation map of Africa during the climatic optimum warm/humid period

Current vegetation map of Africa

Here are some useful websites related to African geography and archaeology:

• Table of information on indigenous African plant domesticates
• Table of information on indigenous African animal domesticates
• Larger map of Africa's natural vegetation today
• Map of tsetse fly distribution today
• MAPS MAPS MAPS! of Africa
• Link to description of breeds of cattle, sheep and goats, including many African domisticates (look at Nguni and N'dama cattle, for example)
• Links to information and maps on tsetse flies, which carry sleeping sickness and limit the locations where pastoralists can successfully survive:
  • Tsetse fly risk: a GIS approach
  • Trypanosomiasis (data from WHO): great summary, no maps
  • Trypanosomiasis (maps of East African and West African varieties of sleeping sickness) (NCID: National Center for Infectious Diseases)
  • a Veterinary medicine description of effects of Trypanosome infection in livestock
• Visit African Weather Links from the University of Cape Town, or view directly the current satellite images (visible image or infrared image) that show today's cloud cover and storm patterns across the African continent
• Greater Horn of Africa Home Page a USAID &EROS data center project
• Ceramic Traditions of Mali -- Mission ArchÈologique et EthnoarchÈologique Suisse en Afrique de l'Ouest
• Rice Archaeology Page, featuring Jenne-Jeno and the work of Roderick and Susan MacIntosh in Mali. Link to Mali Interactive !
• Northeast Nigeria, Archaeological Research: Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• BANI: Base d'Anthropology Physique du Niger -- Institut de Recherche en Sciences Humaines de l'Universite de Niamey (France)
  • Gajiganna site 2200-400 BC (calibrated dates)
• Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology -- University of Memphis
• Archaeological Survey in the Eastern Desert of Egypt -- University of Michigan

 

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