Series entry missing in the book. Subtitle on cover: Towards a constructive re-assessment. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Preface / Wim van Binsbergen -- Black Athena ten years after : towards a constructive re-assessment / Wim van Binsbergen -- Responses to Black Athena : general and linguistic issues / Martin Bernal -- The ancient toponyms of Mallia : a post-Eurocentric reading of Egyptianising Bronze Age documents / Jan Best -- Alternative models of intercontinental interaction towards the earliest Cretan script / Wim van Binsbergen -- Consonants in collision : Neith and Athena reconsidered / Arno Egberts -- Response to Arno Egberts / Martin Bernal -- Proof and persuasion in Black Athena I : the case of K.O. Mùˆller / Josine H. Blok -- Reponse to Josine Blok / Martin Bernal -- Rethinking Africa's contribution to global cultural history : lessons from a comparative historical analysis of mankala board-games and geomatic divination / Wim van Binsbergen -- Is there a future for afrocentrism despite Stephen Howe's dismissive 1998 study? / Wim van Binsbergen -- The bee-sign (Evans no. 86) : an instance of Egyptian influence on Cretan hieroglyphic / Fred Woudhuizen -- The limits of the Black Athena thesis and of afrocentricity as empirical explanatory models : the *Borean hypothesis, the Back-into-Africa hypthesis and the Pelasgian hypothesis as suggestive of a common, West Asian origin for the continuities between Ancient Egypt and the Aegean with a new identity for the goddess Athena / Wim van Binsbergen.
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