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MURRY BERGTRAUM HS LIBRARY 2/14/2005 @ 1:47pm Ancient African Civilizations Page 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 299 GIL Giles, Bridget. Myths of West Africa. Austin, TX : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 2002. Examines the many different peoples that have lived in West Africa and some of the myths that reflect their beliefs. 398.2 NAR Nardo, Don, 1947-. Monsters. San Diego, Calif. : Lucent Books, c2002. Introduction: The dragons of the past -- Ancient Greece : the beast with a woman's face -- Ancient Persia : the battle between good and evil -- Ancient India : demonic enemies of gods and humans -- Ancient Africa : shape-shifters, imps, and river monsters -- Ancient Scandinavia : dragons and giants in a bleak world -- Ancient North America : in the belly of the sea monster. 916 BRO Brooks, Lester. Great civilizations of ancient Africa. New York, : Four Winds Press, [1971]. An account of the ancient African civilizations of Kush, Ghana, Mali, Songhay, Kanem-Bornu, Axum (Ethiopia) and Egypt. 930 MCI McIntosh, Jane. Civilizations : ten thousand years of ancient history. 1st US ed. London ; New York : DK, 2001. Maps and color photos fill this overview of the world's early civilizations, from prehistory to the empires of the New World, including the societies of Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, and the Americas. 930.1 MOL Moloney, N. (Norah). The young Oxford book of archaeology. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1997. Defines archaeology, examines how archaeologists work, surveys excavation methods, and visits archaeology sites--from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania to the Garbage Project in America. 960 DAV Davidson, Basil, 1914-. African kingdoms,. New York, : Time, inc., [1966]. Surveys the history, civilizations, culture and people of ancient Africa and explains the influence of the past on modern African life and customs. 960 NIC Nicolson, Colin. The making of Africa. London, New York, : Wayland; G. P. Putnam's, 1973. Presents the history of Africa from ancient times to the present as recorded in the letters, diaries, and memoirs of contemporary exploreres, merchants, missionaries, slaves, and statesmen. 960.1 ADD Addison, John. Traditional Africa. St. Paul : Greenhaven, c1980. Briefly discusses Africa's early societies, west and central kingdoms, and trading cities of the east African coast. 967 C Chu, Daniel. A glorious age in Africa; : the story of three great African empires. [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y., : MURRY BERGTRAUM HS LIBRARY 2/14/2005 @ 1:47pm Ancient African Civilizations Page 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Doubleday, 1965. 967 DAV Davidson, Basil, 1914-. The African slave trade. A rev. and expanded ed. Boston : Little, Brown, c1980. FE 398.3 DAM D'Amato, Janet. African animals through African eyes. New York : J. Messner, [1971]. Discusses the religious and practical significance of animals as they appear in the artifacts, rock paintings and carvings, and legends of ancient Africa. R 909 BRO Brooks, Philip, 1955-. Civilizations, exploration & conquest. London : New York : Southwater Press ; Anness Pub., c2001. Traces the history and development of human civilization, exploration, and conquest, following a thematic path throughout history. R 911 HIS Martin Greenwald Associates. Historical maps on file. Revised ed. New York : Facts on File, c1984. Vol. I: Ancient civilizations -- Medieval Europe -- Europe (from 1500 to 1815) -- Europe (from 1815 to the present) -- The United States -- Vol. II: Western Hemisphere -- Africa and the Middle East -- Asia -- Australia and the Pacific Islands. Over 300 black and white maps in looseleaf form for easy duplication are organized chronologically and geographically, with a Table of Contents in the front. R 956 CAM The Cambridge encyclopedia of the Middle East and North Africa,. Cambridge Univ Pr, [c1988]. A one-volume account of all aspects of North Africa and the Middle East include the history and geography, people, societies and economies, culture and interstate relations, and events of international political importance of the region. R 960 AFR AFRICANA : The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999. V 960 BEN Benin: An African Kingdom, 1994 (Video). New Jersey : Film for the Humanities, Inc., l994. Surveys the history, civilization, culture, and people of Benin, Africa. V 960 BEN Benin: an African Kingdom, 1996 (video). New Jersey : Films for the humanities and sciences, 1994. There is still a king or Oba of Benin today, and he still dispenses justice to his people. He lives in a very traditional world but has received a British university education. Contrasts like these are commonplace in modern Nigeria: the children shop in the tumult of traditional market and fo to a supermarket to buy plastic toys made in China. Overseas trade is not new to Binin; it was taking place long before the white man arrived. By dramatizing one of the rare accounts by a slave captured as a child, we bring home a small part of the horror that was the slave trade.

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