Peter R. Coutros
@pete-cout.bsky.social
Anthropological Archaeologist focused on West and Central Africa and climate change. Postdoctoral researcher at UGent.
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Check out the article (and the others in the thread) and stay tuned, because there is a lot more this site has to offer us...
November 13, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Check out the article (and the others in the thread) and stay tuned, because there is a lot more this site has to offer us...
All of this data is beginning to show us that West Africa was a deeply interconnected network of communities from at least 3k years ago: exchanging materials, people and ideas across great distances. Its likely why iron and millet spread so quickly after being developed there
November 13, 2024 at 6:11 PM
All of this data is beginning to show us that West Africa was a deeply interconnected network of communities from at least 3k years ago: exchanging materials, people and ideas across great distances. Its likely why iron and millet spread so quickly after being developed there
And we are seeing it later on in the Middle Niger, Mali with the work of Gestrich and Puerta Schardt:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Pottery décor as networks on the Middle Niger, Mali
This paper reports on an attempt to analyse decorative techniques on archaeological pottery from the Middle Niger region of West Africa as knowledge exchange networks. The twelfth-century AD state ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 13, 2024 at 6:11 PM
And we are seeing it later on in the Middle Niger, Mali with the work of Gestrich and Puerta Schardt:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This is something we are beginning to see further to the east at about the same time in Burkina Faso, as Dueppen and Gallagher have recently shown:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Networked Farmers, Ancestral Rituals, Regional Marketplaces, and Salt: New Insights into the Complexity of First Millennium BC/AD Farming Societies in West Africa - African Archaeological Review
In West Africa, there is a disjuncture between historical processes in the second millennium BC and late first millennium AD due to a comparative lack of archaeological data. In the Mouhoun Bend of we...
link.springer.com
November 13, 2024 at 6:11 PM
This is something we are beginning to see further to the east at about the same time in Burkina Faso, as Dueppen and Gallagher have recently shown:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Diallowali also has the largest faunal assemblage from any West African site!
Jessamy Doman and I published on this earlier: shorturl.at/RncgK
My new paper helps contextualize some arguments we made there. In particular that there are connections between communities all over West Africa
Jessamy Doman and I published on this earlier: shorturl.at/RncgK
My new paper helps contextualize some arguments we made there. In particular that there are connections between communities all over West Africa
Socio-environmental implications of shifting subsistence practices at Diallowali, a Late Stone Age site system in the Middle Senegal Valley
Nous présentons ici les résultats de recherches archéologiques sur le site de Diallowali, un site du Late Stone Age situé le long de la bordure ouest …
shorturl.at
November 13, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Diallowali also has the largest faunal assemblage from any West African site!
Jessamy Doman and I published on this earlier: shorturl.at/RncgK
My new paper helps contextualize some arguments we made there. In particular that there are connections between communities all over West Africa
Jessamy Doman and I published on this earlier: shorturl.at/RncgK
My new paper helps contextualize some arguments we made there. In particular that there are connections between communities all over West Africa
Firstly, I describe the MASSIVE pottery assemblage. It was more than 5000kg and the sequence covered nearly 1k years of occupation. This is important, as it is the first pottery sequence for the west Senegal River -100s of km long and a center for early iron & other developments
November 13, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Firstly, I describe the MASSIVE pottery assemblage. It was more than 5000kg and the sequence covered nearly 1k years of occupation. This is important, as it is the first pottery sequence for the west Senegal River -100s of km long and a center for early iron & other developments