Centuries of Art @ Your Library - Out of Africa: Connection between Black Africa and Mediterranean Cultures from the Bronze Age to the Roman Period February 26, 2007

Over the past two hundred years, archaeology has become an academic vocation, concentrating in the Old World on the cultures known from the Hebrew/Christian Bible and Greek and Latin literature. Until very recently, much less attention was given to cultures outside Egypt, southwest Asia, and Europe. It is now increasingly and rightfully acknowledged that these early civilizations did not emerge alone, but were indebted in many ways to the resources and peoples of sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian Ocean, and central Asia. In this lecture, tantalizing clues to connections between the Mediterranean cultures and Black Africa are presented, and the questions, which remain unanswered, about the exchanges between these two important regions of the world are discussed.

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