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A slave who would be king : oral tradition and archaeology of the recent past in the upper Senegal River basin / Jeffrey H. Altschul, Ibrahima Thiaw and Gerald Wait.
LIBRA DT549.3 .A48 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Altschul, Jeffrey H., author.
- Thiaw, Ibrahima, author.
- Wait, G. A. (Gerald A.), author.
- Series:
- Archaeopress archaeology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oral tradition--Senegal River Valley.
- Oral tradition.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Senegal River Valley--Antiquities.
- Senegal River Valley.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Senegal River Valley.
- Senegal--Civilization.
- Senegal.
- Civilization.
- Senegal River Valley--Civilization.
- Antiquities.
- Africa--Senegal River Valley.
- Physical Description:
- x, 314 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2016]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction
- Methodology
- Regulatory Framework of the SCHP
- International Regulatory Framework
- Senegalese Regulatory Framework
- Site Significance
- Project Chronology and Summary Results
- Report Organization
- ch. 2 Environment and Culture History in Southeastern Senegal
- Environmental Setting
- Geologic Background
- Cultural Setting
- Paleolithic Assemblages
- Neolithic Assemblages
- The Iron Age and Historical Period
- Ethnography of Southeastern Senegal
- Research Questions
- Paleolithic
- Neolithic
- The Iron Age and Historical Periods
- ch. 3 Village Histories and Ethnography within the Oromin Sabodala Concession
- Objectives and Methodology
- Culture History and Affiliation in the OJVG Concession
- Phase 1 The Time of the Bassari
- Phase 2 The Soumare Soninke Period
- Phase 3 The Cissokho Lineage Period^^^
- Village Histories and Settlement Dynamics
- Society and Social Organization
- Malinke Society
- Peul Society
- Chieftaincy
- Merchants
- Healers
- Endogamous Craft Specialists
- Blacksmiths and Potters
- Griots
- Slave Descendants
- Cultural Heritage
- Public Ceremonies and Festivals
- Sacred Sites
- Industrial Mining and Local Community: Opportunities and Concerns
- Conclusion
- ch. 4 Archaeological Field Methods
- Pedestrian-Survey Methodology
- Detailed Site Mapping
- Site Test Excavations
- Summary
- ch. 5 Archaeological Survey and Test-Excavation Results
- Material Culture and Features
- Material Culture
- Feature Types and Functions
- Site Types
- Resource-Processing Sites
- Field Houses
- Site 129
- Site 133
- Site 155
- Farmsteads
- Site 11
- Site 78
- Site 79
- Site 147
- Site 149
- Site 151
- Hamlets and Villages^^^^
- Hamlets (Example Site 77, with Site 153, and Site 130)
- Site 77, with 153
- Site 130
- Villages (Example Sites 71, 123, and 156)
- Site 71
- Site 123
- Site 156
- Polity Centers
- Sites 8, 9, 10, 11, 78, and 79
- Ideological/Sacred Sites
- Site 1
- Site 157
- Excavation of Feature 1
- Excavation of Feature 3
- Discussion of Site Settlement Types and Distribution
- ch. 6 Artifact Analyses
- Ceramic Sampling and Analysis Procedures
- Method for Analyzing Body Sherds
- Plain Sherds
- Slip
- Plastic Impression
- Subtractive Motifs
- Twine Impressions
- Cord-Wrapped Stick
- Carved Wood Roulette
- Incision
- Channeling
- Other subtractive motifs
- Additive Motifs
- Multiple Attributes and Unidentified Motifs
- Method for Analyzing Rim Sherds
- Rim Attributes and Morphology
- Simple Rims
- Everted Rims
- Collared Rims
- Other Rims
- Results of Ceramic Analysis
- Small Finds^^^
- Conclusion
- Lithic Analysis
- Field Collection Strategy and Analytical Procedures
- Results
- Lithic Tools from Test Excavations
- Lithic Material from Surface Contexts
- Debris
- Flakes
- Cores
- Handaxes
- Milling Implements
- Grinding Slabs
- Pestles
- Pierres a Cupules
- Traces of Wear on Milling Implements
- Hammerstones
- Axes
- Miscellaneous
- Conclusions
- ch. 7 Geoarchaeological Investigations
- Introduction
- Preliminary Buried-Site Model
- Methods
- Field Methods
- Laboratory Methods
- Backhoe Trenching
- Proposed Freshwater-Reservoir Area
- Proposed Haul-Road Alignment
- Summary and Discussion
- Buried-Site Probability
- Association of Landforms and Archaeological Sites
- ch. 8 Where Are the Sites, and Why Are They There? A Methodological Exercise in Archaeological Predictive Modeling
- The History of Predictive Modeling^^^- Small Finds^^^
- Inductive versus Deductive Models
- The SCHP Predictive Models
- Buried-Sites Model
- Surface-Sites Model
- Combined-Sensitivity Map
- Why Are Sites Located Where They Are? The Case for Agent-Based Modeling
- ch. 9 Settlement Dynamics in Beledougou in the Second Millennium A.D.
- Beledougou in Context
- Continuity in Settlement
- Settlement Dynamics
- Masato: The Archaeology of a West African Polity Centre
- Sabodala and Internal Frontiers
- The Past Living in the Present
- ch. 10 Summary
- Significance Evaluations
- Sacred and Traditional Resources
- Archaeological Sites
- Impact Analysis
- Appendix A Gazetteer of Sites
- Appendix B Gazetteer of Features and Sites
- Appendix C Ceramic Decorative Techniques
- Appendix D Ceramic Rim Sherd Data
- References Cited
- Agricultural-Soil Productivity of the Oromin Joint Venture Group
- Concession, Senegal
- Introduction^^^^
- Methods
- Analytical Methods
- Evaluation of Agricultural-Soil Productivity for the OJVG Concession
- Agricultural Management in Mamakhono
- Traditional Malinke Agriculture
- Agricultural Field Study
- Assessment of Mining Effects on Agricultural Systems
- OJVG Concession
- Mamakhono
- Summary and Recommendations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781784913519
- 1784913510
- OCLC:
- 952464880
- Publisher Number:
- 99972644371
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