Reconstructing African culture history/ 
/ Edited by Creighton Gabel and Norman R. Bennett. 
 - Boston University Press:  Boston,  1967. 
 - x, 246 p. :  ill. maps.;  22 cm. 
 - African research studies; no.8. .
<br/><br/> Consists chiefly of papers presented at a symposium held at Northwestern University in November 1962.  TRUNCATED 
<br/><br/>Bibliographical footnotes. 
<br/><br/>A record of early agriculture and metallurgy in Africa from archaeological sources, by J. D. Clark.--Ethnology and African culture history, by H. S. Lewis.--African languages and African pre-history, by R. W. Wescott.--The use of oral tradition in African culture history, by J. Vansina.--The use of music as a technique of reconstructing culture history in Africa, by A. P. Merriam.--African art and culture history, by R. Sieber.--The origin of the sickle-cell gene, by F. B. Livingstone.--The bearings of botanical evidence on African culture history, by E. Anderson.--Biosystematics of cultivated plants, by J. R. Harlan.--Murdock's classification of tropical African food economies, by M. P. Miracle. Coda: Toward an interdisciplinary method for African culture histor 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>History--Research.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Africa--Historiography.