West African Archaeology: New developments, new perspectives

✍ Scribed by Philip Allsworth-Jones

• Publisher: BAR Publishing
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 184
• Series: BAR British Archaeological Reports International Series 2164
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book contains papers read at the conference "West African archaeology, New developments, New perspectives", co-sponsored by the Nigerian Field Society and the Department of Archaeology of the University of Sheffield, with the support of the University's Humanities Research Institute, which was held at the HRI in Sheffield on 27 June 2009. They are a testimony to the fact that - for all the constraints imposed upon it - archaeological research in West Africa continues to be pursued actively and to make a significant contribution to the subject in the continent as a whole.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Introduction
Ounjougou: a long Middle Stone Age sequence in the Dogon country (Mali)
Middle Stone Age Sangoan-Lupemban Lithic Assemblages of Africa
The archaeological context of the Iwo Eleru cranium from Nigeria and preliminary results of new morphometric studies
A developmental history for early West African agriculture
Recent Developments in iron-working research in West Africa
Beyond Art. Archaeological studies on the Nok Culture, Central Nigeria
Destructive times, constructive measures: Danish funding and collaboration to develop archaeology in Bénin
Between the Forest and the Sudan: The Dynamics of Trade in Northern Ghana
Was Benin a forest kingdom? Attempting to reconstruct landscapes in Southern Nigeria
The archaeology and palynology of Ajaba, a late iron-age settlement in north-east Yoruba land, Nigeria: some preliminary results
The Stone Arm Ring and Related Polished Stone Industries of Hombori (Mali)
Contextualising the DGB* sites of northern Cameroon
Ethnoarchaeology at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Ibadan: excavation of the mound at Adesina Oja in the Archaeological Reserve
The Dundu Museum (Angola): project for its reopening and renovation (2007)
The linguistic geography of Nigeria and its implications for prehistory