Detailed archaeological surveys in Senegal began in the second half of the 20th century (e.g., Ravisé, 1975, Camara, 2000, Diop, 2000), reporting a very sparse and heterogeneous distribution of Stone Age artefacts (Earlier Stone Age/ESA, MSA and LSA), with the exception of the Dakar (the capital city) region and the Falémé River valley in the east of the country, which have since defined ...
Author:Eleanor M.L. Scerri, James Blinkhorn, Huw S. Groucutt, Khady NiangPublished:2016
Birth of archaeological research in Senegal and West Africa is linked to the implementation of the French colonial system during the 19 th century. Mostly prac - ticed by soldiers and civil administrators, archaeol-ogy was a leisure activity that deeply affected or compromised the informative potential of many sites and archaeological materials.
Aug 18, 2023The Lower Senegal Valley is located in the Sahel zone of West Africa, an open landscape bracketed between the true desert of the Sahara to the north and the more humid and richly vegetated savannah to the south. Much of the upper reaches of the Senegal River and its largest tributary, the Falémé, predominantly flow through the latter (Fig. 1a ...
In this paper, we contribute towards redressing this imbalance though a summary of the state of knowledge of the West African Middle Stone Age (MSA), and the presentation of preliminary analyses of ten newly discovered MSA archaeological sites situated along the Senegal River. Archaeological, fossil and genetic data relevant to the West African ...
Author:Eleanor M.L. Scerri, James Blinkhorn, Huw S. Groucutt, Khady NiangPublished:2016
West Africa in particular is a vast area with extremely limited archaeological, The importance of Africa in human origins is widely recognised, yet knowledge remains strongly biased towards certain regions of the continent at the expense of others. ... The Middle Stone Age archaeologyof the Senegal River Valley. khady niang. 2016, Quaternary ...
The accumulating archaeological data, especially from Senegal and Mali, reveal distinctive cultural developments that have enriched our understanding of human behavioral evolutionary history ...
Jul 13, 2023As in the rest of Africa, the birth of archaeology in Senegal is inextricably tied to the European colonial presence. During the period of "pacification" that followed the conquest of West Africa (1871-1914), the French government, the Rockefeller Foundation, and various private individuals financially supported the exploration of newly subjugated territories.
The World Heritage Site of Wanar in Senegal features 21 stone circles, remarkable not least because they were erected in the twelfth and thirteenth century AD, when Islam ruled the Indian Ocean and Europe was in its Middle Ages. The state of preservation has benefited the exemplary investigation currently carried out by a French-Senegalese team ...
Archaeological approaches to human remains in Senegal have developed within a complex terrain of research agendas, institutions, and questions (see Richard 2009; Thiaw 2012b).Beginning in the early twentieth century, the first explorations of archaeological ruins were largely amateur attempts by French colonial administrators to prove the biological inferiority and/or historical stagnation of ...
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