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Archaeology and ethnography along the Loango Coast in the south west of the Republic of Congo / / Gerry Wait and Ibrahima Thiaw.

This book presents the results of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) project in the southwest region of the Republic of the Congo, undertaken to identify and evaluate cultural resources which might need further investigation. The study also reports on ethnographic surveys consider...

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VerfasserIn:	Wait, Gerry, Thiaw, Ibrahima,
TeilnehmendeR:	Thiaw, Ibrahima,
Place / Publishing House:	Oxford, England : : Archaeopress,, 2020.
Year of Publication:	2020
Edition:	1st ed.
Language:	English
Physical Description:	1 online resource (115 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents Page
List of Figures
Figure 1. Location Map of the project area
Introduction
Acknowledgements
The archaeological heritage regulatory framework in the RC
International Regulatory Framework
Figure 2. Map of the study area showing the principal villages mentioned in the text
Figure 3. Typical household, Dougou village
The Sintoukola Potash Project
The methodology
Approach and Methodology:
Desktop Research and Planning
Objectives
Field Survey Methodology
Archaeological and historical background
Artefact analysis
Pottery
Imports
Lithic Artefacts
Conclusions: archaeology and the location and dating of ancestral sites
Figure 4. Yanika village in the mixed savannah-forest zone
Figure 5. The village of Nkoutou
Figure 6. Fieldwalking with the massive plantation of cloned eucalyptus trees behind
Figure 7. Fieldwalking in the mixed savannah and forest zone
Figure 8. Site recording
Dt Thiaw and Directrice Mdm Nsania Julienne
Figure 9. Recording at Lac Ndembo, on one of the sites also recorded by Denbow (note his concrete marker)
Figure 10. Denbow's marker for the site at Lac Ndembo
Figure 11. Map after Denbow of sites
Figure 12. Fieldwalking through the mixed savannah-forest zone
Figure 13. Survey team at Denbow's marker for site BP113
Figure 14. Denbow's marker for site BP113
Figure 15. Rim-sherd of pottery found in the coastal zone
Table 1. Chronological periods and pottery styles related to sites discovered in the 2011 survey
Figure 16. Locations of Archaeological Sites
Figure 17. Locations of ISO sites
Figure 18. Density of archaeological remains near the coast up to approximately 8km inland
Figure 19. Density of archaeological remains in the zone of savannah-forest mosaic.
Figure 20. Density of Archaeological remains in the Mayombe
Figure 21. Zones of relative archaeological potential
ASPECTS OF THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE IN THE IN THE SINTOUKOLA PERMIT AREA
Approach
Objectives
The social context
Methodology
Communal Organisation
Terrien families
Religion and beliefs
Sacred sites: Sanctuaries
Cemeteries
Churches
Zéphirin
Tchikombi and Mangoudi and other dances/festivals
Christian Churches and Traditional Witchcraft and Sorcery
Terriens, Village Chiefs, Christian Churches
Conclusions
Distribution of Sacred sites
Figure 22. Village consultation in Koutou
Figure 23. Meeting with a babongo (pygmy) family near Youbi
Figure 24. Meeting with villagers in Dougou village
Figure 25. Map of sacred sites developed during consultation in Koutou with Bouvandji
Figure 26. Map of sacred sites Lakes Youbi and Yangala developed during consultation with Youbi terriens
Figure 27. Map of sacred sites developed during consultation with Sintou terriens for Bivabiloangou
Figure 28 - Sacred site on River Djemba
Figure 29 - Recording a propitiatory ritual while approaching sacred site 118 near village KM4
Figure 30 - Recording ARCH site 42, also a sacred site near Nkola
Figure 31 - Recording GPS coordinated at a sacred site in the Mayombe forest zone near Kola
Figure 32. Cemetery sacred site 115 near Youbi
Figure 33 - Cemetery sacred site XXX near Kaboune
Figure 34. Learning local narratives about the cemetery sacred site 115 near Youbi
Figure 35. A grave marker typical of the dispersed burials in the coastal zone
Figure 36. A relatively modern burial in a well tended cemetery near Youbi
Figure 37. Roadside cemetery in the Mayombe north of Sintou
Figure 38. Iron grave marker in a cemetery near Goma Tchiloungo.
Figure 39. A Zéphirin church altar frontal from near Nkola
Figure 40. The Zéphirin-Lassist church at KM4 village
Figure 41. The Zéphirin church in Nkola
Figure 42. Altar decorations in the Zéphirin church in Nkola
Figure 43. The Zéphirin church in KM4 village
Figure 44. The current Zéphirin church in Tchiesalamou
Figure 45. The Zéphirin church in Tchiesalamou under construction (view along Nave)
Figure 46. The Zéphirin church in Tchiesalamou under construction (view towards the altar)
Figure 47. The church in the village of Nkoutou
Conclusions
Distribution of Sacred sites
Figure 48. Areas that have higher potential to be tchibila
Bibliography and Sources Consulted
Bibliography and Sources Consulted
Figure 49. Ceramics - indigenous and imported - from Site ARCH 2
Finds Illustrations
Finds illustrations
Figure 50. European blue-glass trade beads, circa 17th-18th centuries from Site ARCH2
Figure 51. Ceramics - indigenous and imported - from site ARCH 19
Figure 52. Ceramics - indigenous and imported from Site ARCH 20
Figure 53. Ceramics - indigenous - from site ARCH 21
Figure 54. Ceramics - indigenous and imported - from site ARCH 22
Figure 55. Indigenous Ceramics, iron-working slag worked stone objects and a characteristic rim-sherd from site ARCH 22
Figure 56. Ceramics - indigenous and imported - from site ARCH 22 continued
Figure 57. Ceramics - indigenous and imported - from site ARCH 24
Figure 58. Indigenous ceramics and imported bottle-glass from site ARCH 24
Figure 59. Chipped quartz: waste flakes and some with retouch for use as tools
Figure 60. European green-glass bottle neck fragment
Figure 61. Chipped quartz: waste flakes with retouch for use as tools
Figure 62. Indigenous ceramics and worked stone from site ARCH 29.
Figure 63. Indigenous ceramics from site ARCH 29
Figure 64. Indigenous ceramics and imported glass from site ARCH 31
Figure 65. Indigenous ceramics and worked quartz flakes from site ARCH 32 (Denbow's site BP113)
Figure 66. Indigenous ceramics from site ARCH 33 (Denbow's site Lamba)
Figure 67. Site ISO 1
Figure 68. Site ISO 2
Figure 69. Site ISO 3
Figure 70. Site ISO 7
Figure 71. Site ISO 20
Figure 72. Site ISO 24
Appendix 1: Gazetteer of Archaeological Sites and Site Descriptions
Appendix 1: Gazetteer of Archaeological Sites and Site Descriptions
Table 2 Gazetteer of Archaeological Sites (geograic information removed)
Appendix 2: Summary of indigenous LOANGO COAST ceramic styles after James Denbow
Appendix 2: Summary of indigenous LOANGO COAST ceramic styles after James Denbow
Appendix 2: Tabulated records of artefacts
Appendix 3: Ceramics drawings
Appendix 4: fiche de prospection: card-index records for newly discovered sites
Appendix 5: Gazetteer of Heritage Sites
Table 5 Sacred sites - accurate geographic location information has been removed.

Archaeology and ethnography along the Loango Coast in the south west of the Republic of Congo / / Gerry Wait and Ibrahima Thiaw.

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