Historical Inferences to be Drawn from the Effect of Human Settlement on the Vegetation of Africa

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ID8977043
AuthorsPeter A Allison (0000-0002-4997-5314, corresponding author)
Year1962
Volume3
Issue2
Pages241-249
Publication date1962-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of African History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0021853700003078
OpenAlexW2118348511
LanguageEN
Citations received8

The Occupation of the earth by Man has always been limited and conditioned by the natural environment of the various climatic zones he inhabits. Modern technology is giving him an increasing control over that environment, but in most parts of Africa, where the results of this control are only beginning to become significant, the influence of the factors of natural environment are still very apparent in the patterns of human settlement and history. The waterless desert is still an almost impossible human habitat, and the tropical forest, where the lush vegetation inhibits agriculture and pests and parasites endanger the life of Man and his domestic animals, has been colonized cautiously and frequently only under pressure

Agriculture · Archaeology · Biology · Desert (philosophy · Geography · Habitat · Human settlement · Natural (archaeology · Settlement (finance · Vegetation (pathology · African cultural and philosophical studies · African history and culture analysis · Ecology · History · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

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