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Maps and Figures
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Maps and Figures Maps 1.1 Equatorial Africa 4 1.2 General orientation 6 1.3 The quality of the evidence 30 1.4 Western Bantu languages of the rainforests 32 2.1 Orography 36 2.2 Rainfall 37 2.3 Seasons 40 2.4a The rainforests: a simple view 42 2.4b The rainforests: a complex reality 42 2.5 Vegetation 44 2.6 Older Stone Age sites 48 2.7 Western Bantu expansion in equatorial Africa 51 2.8 The major Bantu language groups in equatorial Africa 53 2.9 Neolithic sites 54 2.10 The early Iron Age 59 2.11 Banana plantain (AAB): *-kondo, -bugu 63 2.12 Major outside influences on the equatorial African tradition 67 4.1 The inner basin 102 4.2 Early expansion in the inner basin 112 4.3 Later expansion north of the equator 115 4.4 Nkumu expansion 124 5.1 Communal building, *-Mnja 131 5.2 The Sanaga-Ntem expansion: c. A.D. 1400-1600 133 5.3 Bioko 138 5.4 The spread of the term nkani meaning "chief" 148 5.5 The southwestern quadrant before c. A.D. 1200 150 5.6 The three main kingdoms: Kongo, Loango, Tio 157 5.7 Southern Gabon 160 5.8 Northern Congo 161 5.9 Lands of the lower Kasai 163 IX x Maps and Figures 6.1 The eastern uplands 168 6.2 The northeast and the Mangbetu kingdom 170 6.3 Associations in Maniema 179 6.4 Circumcision rituals in Maniema 190 7.1 The Atlantic trade before 1830 199 7.2 The Atlantic trade: 1830-1880 208 7.3 Economic specialization in the Atlantic trading area 212 7.4 Lemba and Nkobi 223 7.S The inner basin in the age of the slave trade 226 7.6 Western equatorial Africa: 1830-1880 231 8.1 Sudanese and Zanzibari trading area: 1869-1894 241 8.2 Equatorial Africa in 1910 243 Figures 2.1 The western Bantu family of languages 50 4.1 Scimitars 108 ...