Two thousand years in Dendi, northern Benin : : archaeology, history and memory / / [edited] by Anne Haour.

• Superior document: Journal of African archaeology monograph series ; v. 13
• VerfasserIn: Haour, Anne,
• TeilnehmendeR: Haour, Anne,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Journal of African Archaeology Monograph Series 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (819 pages).

In Two Thousand Years in Dendi, Northern Benin an international team examines a little-known part of the Niger River valley, West Africa, over the longue durée. This area, known as Dendi, has often been portrayed as the crossroads of major West African medieval empires but this understanding has been based on a small number of very patchy historical sources. Working from the ground up, from the archaeological sites, standing remains, oral traditions and craft industries of Dendi, Haour and her team offer the first in-depth account of the area. Contributors are: Paul Adderley, Mardjoua Barpougouni, Victor Brunfaut, Louis Champion, Annalisa Christie, Barbara Eichhorn, Anne Filippini, Dorian Fuller, Olivier Gosselain, David Kay, Nadia Khalaf, Nestor Labiyi, Raoul Laibi, Richard Lee, Veerle Linseele, Alexandre Livingstone Smith, Carlos Magnavita, Sonja Magnavita, Didier N'Dah, Nicolas Nikis, Sam Nixon, Franck N’Po Takpara, Jean-François Pinet, Ronika Power, Caroline Robion-Brunner, Lucie Smolderen, Abubakar Sule Sani, Romuald Tchibozo, Jennifer Wexler, Wim Wouters.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Figures and Tables -- Maps -- -- Introduction / Anne Haour -- Crossing Archaeology and Oral Tradition: Approaching Dendi History from Sites of Memory / Olivier Gosselain and Lucie Smolderen -- Palaeoenvironmental Data on Dendi, in the Last 3000 Years / Anne Haour -- The Archaeology of the Eastern Niger Valley / Anne Haour and Didier N’Dah -- An Archaeological and Ethnographic Approach to a Site and Its Region / Anne Haour , Olivier Gosselain , Alexandre Livingstone Smith , Sam Nixon and Didier N’Dah -- -- Landforms, Hydrography, and Vegetation / Raoul Laïbi , Didier N’Dah and Paul Adderley -- The Archaeological Landscape: Survey and Settlement / Nadia Khalaf , Anne Haour , Didier N’Dah and Alexandre Livingstone Smith -- -- Ethnographic Methods / Olivier Gosselain , Lucie Smolderen , Victor Brunfaut , Jean-François Pinet and Alexandre Livingstone Smith -- Architecture and Settlements Today / Victor Brunfaut and Jean-François Pinet -- Textile Production in Dendi: An Ethnographic and Historical Study of a Chain of Production / Lucie Smolderen -- -- Excavation Strategies and Methods: Approaching an Archaeological Terra Incognita / Anne Haour , Didier N’Dah , Carlos Magnavita , Sam Nixon and Alexandre Livingstone Smith -- The Mound of Tombo: Introduction to the Site / Didier N’Dah , Carlos Magnavita , Sam Nixon , Anne Haour and Alexandre Livingstone Smith -- The Geophysical Prospection of Birnin Lafiya / Carlos Magnavita -- The Pavements at Tombo Birnin Lafiya / Didier N’Dah and Barpougouni Mardjoua -- Pavements and Other Architectural Features / Sam Nixon -- Stratigraphy and Dating: Excavation Units and Associated Dates / Alexandre Livingstone Smith , Louis Champion , Nicolas Nikis and Anne Haour -- The Pottery / Anne Haour , Sam Nixon , Alexandre Livingstone Smith , Nicolas Nikis and David K. Kay -- Ironworking / Caroline Robion-Brunner -- Metal Objects and Slag from Birnin Lafiya / Anne Filippini -- Beads and Pendants / Sonja Magnavita -- The Cowrie Shells / Annalisa Christie and Anne Haour -- Figurines and Terracotta Objects / Romuald Tchibozo -- Archaeobotanical Remains / Louis Champion and Dorian Fuller -- Wood Charcoal / Barbara Eichhorn -- Animal Remains / Veerle Linseele and Wim Wouters -- Human Skeletal Material / Ronika K. Power and Anne Haour -- -- Birnin Lafiya within West African Archaeology / Anne Haour and Sam Nixon -- The Site within West African Political and Craft History / Olivier Gosselain and Anne Haour -- Catalogue -- Pekinga (PEK) / Abubakar Sule Sani -- Toutokayeri (TTO-14-SI, II and III) / Nicolas Nikis , Alexandre Livingstone Smith and Anne Haour -- Kompa Dune (KOD) / Anne Haour and Nadia Khalaf -- Torouwey (TRO-14-SI) / Alexandre Livingstone Smith and Olivier Gosselain -- Kompanti (PTI-14-SI) / Alexandre Livingstone Smith and Nicolas Nikis -- Tin Tin Kanza / Louis Champion , Nadia Khalaf and Anne Haour -- Tin Tin Kanza, TTK-13-SI / Louis Champion and Anne Haour -- Tin Tin Kanza (TTK-13-SII) / Nadia Khalaf and Anne Haour -- Boyeri (BOY-14-SI and II) / Nicolas Nikis , Alexandre Livingstone Smith and Olivier Gosselain.