Ehret, Christopher. <br/><br/>
The civilizations of Africa :    a history to 1800 /  
Christopher Ehret. 
 - Charlottesville :    University Press of Virginia,    2002. 
 - xii, 480 p. :    ill., maps ;    24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introducing Africa and its history -- Africa before the agricultural age, 16,000-9000 BCE -- Culture and technology in Africa, 9000-3500 BC E -- Diverging paths of history : Africa 3500-1000 BCE -- An age of com merce, an age of iron : Africa, 1000 BCE to 300 CE -- Southern, central , and eastern Africa : the middle centuries, 300-1450 -- Northeastern, West, and North Africa : the middle centuries, 300-1450 -- The early At lantic age, 1450-1640 -- Africa in the era of the Atlantic slave trade, 1640-1800. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813920856 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2001-005038 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/> Africa -- Civilization.<br/> Africa -- History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>960