Archaeology and Afrocentrism: An Attempt to Set the Record Straight

In his essay that appeared in this Journal (Egypt and European Supremacy: A Bibliographic Essay), Kwame Nantambu attempts to use the extant archaeological record to support an Afrocentrist—actually and more accurately, an Egypt-centric—view of human history. In fact, however, while the archaeological record clearly indicates the great sophistication of ancient Egyptian culture, it does not buttress the claim that ancient Egypt was the proximate or even the ultimate source of human civilization.