Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introducing the Issues and Themes
Chapter 2. African Firsts in the History of Technology
Ceramic Technology in World and African History
Women as Inventors and Innovators
Metallurgy in Ancient Africa
Historical Connections of Copper to Iron Metallurgy in Africa
Mechanical Invention in Early World and African History
Issues and Propositions
Chapter 3. Ancient Africa and the Export of Agricultural Innovation
The Era of Early Agriculture
African Agricultural Beginnings
Early Agriculture in West Africa

The Age of Agricultural Exchange
Chapter 4. Towns and Long-Distance Commerce in Ancient Africa
The West African Commercial Revolution
A Second African Commercial Revolution: The Congo Basin
Commercial "Revolutions" in the Global Frame
Chapter 5. The Africanity of Ancient Egypt
The Deep Background of Ancient Egyptian History, 20,000-6000 BCE
The Not-So-Deep-Time Story of Egypt's Foundations, 6000-3100 BCE
Chapter 6. Africa and Africans in Early Global History
Global History, 68,000-20,000 BCE
Global History, 20,000-9700 BCE

Global History, 9700 to the Sixth Millennium BCE
The Age of Agricultural Exchange, 6000-3000 BCE
Global History, 3000 BCE-300 CE
"Civilization"
Appendix: Considerations for Historians Reading Genetic Studies
Notes
Bibliography
Index