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Africa in Prehistory: Leader or Laggard?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

Thurstan Shaw
Thurstan Shaw
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University of Ibadan
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The Journal of African History , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 1971 , pp. 143 - 153
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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