The Malian Lakes Region redefined: archaeological survey of the Gorbi Valley

• Autores: Peter R. Coutros
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 91, Nº 356, 2017, págs. 474-489
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Malian Lakes Region of West Africa has long been overlooked in favour of better-known basins of the Niger River. New archaeological survey of this region, however, shows a history far more complex than had previously been thought, with settlement mounds and multiple phases of migration and eventual abandonment in a landscape of shifting power structures between the first millennium BC and second millennium AD. With the establishment of a relative chronology, the archaeology of this region now holds great potential for a better understanding of the broader cultural history of the Ghana Empire.