Record details

• ISBN: 0887387152
• ISBN: 9780887387159
• Physical Description: 313 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
• Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Publishers, c1992.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Incorporating Journal of African civilizations, December 1986 (vol. 8, no. 2)"--P. [3].

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : Fifteen years after / Ivan Van Sertima -- African presence in America B.C. -- Van Sertima's address to the Smithsonian -- Egypto-Nubian presences in ancient Mexico / Ivan Van Sertima -- Unexpected African faces in pre-Columbian America / Alexander von Wuthenau -- The African presence in ancient America : evidence from physical anthropology / Keith Jordan -- African Sea Kings in America : evidence from early maps / Joan Covey -- Pyramids-American and African : a comparison / Beatrice Lumpkin -- African presence in America A.D. -- Leo Wiener-a plea for reexamination / David J.M. Muffett -- Africa and the discovery of America / Leo Wiener -- Mandinga voyages across the Atlantic / Harold Lawrence (Kofi Wangara) -- Africans out of Asia in America -- Men out of Asia : a reassessment of the Gladwin thesis / Runoko Rashidi -- The first Americans / Legrand Clegg II -- Trait-influences in Meso-America : the African-Asian connection / Wayne B. Chandler.

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Subject:

America > Discovery and exploration > African.
Blacks > America > History.
Indians > African influences.
Indians > Transpacific influences.