Note: Contains in part papers presented at the Ninth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences , Enth. Bibliogr. und Index , Some formulations on the prehistory of West Africa / B.K. Swartz, Jr. , Processes of coastal evolution in West Africa during the Quaternary / Bassey W. Andah , The status of Guinea coast paleoarchaeological knowledge as seen from Legon / B.K. Swartz, Jr. , Excavations at Rim, north-central Upper Volta : a paleoecological study / Bassey W. Andah , The origins and domestication of yams in Africa / D.G. Coursey , The Kintampo culture and its place in the economic prehistory of West Africa / Colin Flight , Archaeological data on the origins of cultivation in the southwestern Sahara and their implications for West Africa / Patrick J. Munson , Comments on the advent of plant cultivation in West Africa / David V. Ellis , History of crops and peoples in North Cameroon to A.D. 1900 / Nicholas David , The Sahara as a center of ceramic dispersion in northern Africa / T.R. Hays , Archaeology east of the Niger : a review of cultural-historical developments / Donald D. Hartle , The Ntereso culture in Ghana / Oliver Davies , The emergence of iron technology in West Africa, with special emphasis on the Nok culture of Nigeria / John A. Rustad , The geographic distribution of footed bowls in the Upper and Middle Niger region / R.M.A. Bedaux , Speculations on functions of some prehistoric archaeological materials from Sierra Leone / John H. Atherton , Research trends in West African history / Raymond E. Dumett , Prolegomena to the study of the culture history of the Igbo-speaking peoples of Nigeria / A.E. Afigbo , An ethnohistorical reconstruction of traditional Igbo society / S.J.S. Cookey , Old Akyem and the origins of Akyems Abuakwa and Kotuku 1675-1775 / Ronald R. Atkinson , Administration and trade in the Akwamu empire, 1681-1730 / Ray A. Kea , The dynamics and symbolism of Idoma kingship / Robert G. Armstrong , Gao and the Almoravids : a hypothesis / J.O. Hunwick , Timbuktu : a case study of the role of legend in history / Eugenia Herbert , The Julas in western Sudanese history : long-distance traders and developers of resources / B. Marie Perinbam , Slave acquisition and delivery in precolonial Hausaland / Jan S. Hogendorn , Accommodation and assimilation in the landlord-stranger relationship / Bruce L. Mouser , Some paradoxes of pacification : Senegal and France in the 1850's and 1860's / Leland C. Barrows , Changing perspectives on African resistance movements and the case of the Baule peoples / Timothy C. Weiskel , Nation building, ethnicity, and the new imperialism : dilemmas of political development in Liberia / Henry S. Wilson , Long-term structural change in the economy of Central Niger / Stephen Baier.

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