African presence in early Europe

by Ivan Van Sertima

Paper Book, 1985

Status

Available

Call number

DT14 CB203 .J68 vol. 7, no. 2

Publication

New Brunswick [N.J.], U.S.A. : Transaction Books, c1985.

Description

This book places into perspective the role of the African in world civilization, in particular his little known contributions to the advancement of Europe. A major essay on the evolution of the Caucasoid discusses recent scientific discoveries of the African fatherhood of man and the shift towards albinism (dropping of pigmentation) by the Grimaldi African during an ice age (the Wurm Interstadial) in Europe. The debt owed to African and Arab Moors for certain inventions usually credited to the Renaissance is discussed, as well as the much earlier Afro-Egyptian influence on Greek science and philosophy. The book is divided into six parts: The First Europeans: African Presence in the Ancient Mediterranean Isles and Mainland Greece; Africans in the European Religious Hierarchy (madonnas, saints and popes); African Presence in Western Europe; African Presence in Northern Europe; African Presence in Eastern Europe.… (more)

Language

Physical description

317 p.; 23 cm

ISBN

0887386644 / 9780887386640

Barcode

34662000809548
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