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史学家对世界各大区上古文明,如古埃及文明、西亚文明、爱琴海文明、伊朗文明、印度文明、中国文明、印第安文明等已有多年精湛研究和高度评价。但黑非洲上古文明却一直未得到应有的重视与评价,我国世界上古史教科书几乎未曾提及。本文依据有关黑非洲上古史近几十年来考古学、人类学、历史语言学以及历史学等学科研究的进展,对黑非洲上古文明的世界历史地位作一个初探。本文认为:黑非洲大陆不仅具有悠久灿烂、独具特色的上古文明,(这点60年代后也为西方学者所逐步接受),而且在世界历史发展上占有十分重要的地位,对欧亚大陆其他各区域上古文明有很大历史影响。主要表现在以下四大方面:
Historians have for many years superb research and spoke highly of the ancient civilizations in various regions of the world, such as ancient Egyptian civilization, Western civilization, the Aegean civilization, Iranian civilization, Indian civilization, Chinese civilization, Indian civilization. However, the ancient civilizations in Black Africa have not gained the due attention and evaluation all along. Almost none of the ancient history textbooks in the world have ever been mentioned in our country. Based on the progress made in the studies of ancient African history of archeology, anthropology, historical linguistics and history in recent decades, this paper makes a preliminary study of the world history of ancient African civilization. This paper argues that the Black Africa continent not only has a long and splendid ancient culture with unique features (which is gradually accepted by Western scholars after the 1960s) but also plays a very important role in the development of the world history. The ancient civilizations in the region have a great historical impact. Mainly in the following four aspects: