The Prehistoric Origins of African Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8976414 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Desmond Clark (0000-0001-7338-7144, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1964 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 161-183 |
| Publication date | 1964-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853700004795 |
| OpenAlex | W2136082646 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 15 |
The paper traces the beginnings of human culture in Africa, its evolution and spread, and shows the feedback relationship that exists between biological evolution and culture. It is demonstrated how environment is the most important factor in producing variability at the food-gathering level, and the present-day regional differences in culture are shown to have been in existence for some 40,000 years. The history of the introduction and spread of domestication is summarized, and evidence is adduced to indicate that the diffusion of Iron Age economy in southern Africa was due as much to adaptation as to immigration, thus demonstrating a real and traceable continuity up to the present day
Adaptation (eye · Archaeology · Biology · Culture change · Domestication · Economic geography · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Immigration · Prehistory · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Ecology · History
West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals
Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, Tool-Using and Tool-Making
Domestication of African Cereals
Archaeology in the Western Copperbelt
Dietary separation of meat and milk a cultural‐geogmaphical inquiry
On a new radiocarbon chronology for Africa south of the Equator
Bantu in the Crystal Ball, II
The Aterian from the Jebel Gharbi (Libya)
Modelling production mishaps in later Acheulian handaxes from the Area 1 excavation at Amanzi Springs (Eastern Cape, South Africa) and their effects on reduction and morphology
A Chronological Perspective on the Acheulian and Its Transition to the Middle Stone Age in Southern Africa
The morphology and domestication of pearl millet
On a new radiocarbon chronology for Africa south of the Equator
The Late Paleolithic of Northeast Africa in the Light of Recent Research
The Origin of Races
Tools and Human Evolution
A New Fossil Skull From Olduvai
The Robert Broom Commemorative Volume
Variability within the Late Acheulian Assemblage in Eastern Africa
Australopithecines and Artefacts at Sterkfontein
The Iron Age Sequence in the Southern Province of Northern Rhodesia
The Spread of Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Prehistory of East Africa
Olduvai Gorge and Human Origins
The Prehistory of East Africa
| Citations per year | 0.23 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1964 - 2021 (58) |
| Highly cited | No |