Archaeofaunal Remains From The Past 4000 Years In Sahelian West Africa Paperback

Veerle Linseele

Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 70 The faunal assemblages that are the subject of this study were excavated in northern Burkina Faso and the southern Lake Chad area, within the framework of a multidisciplinary project. They cover almost the entire four millennia between 2000 BC and the present. The analysed faunas are placed in a wider context by comparing them with data from other archaeological sites in sub-Saharan West Africa and beyond. Iconography, textual evidence, genetics, animal production, ethnography and linguistics are confronted with the faunal data. Besides gathering information on the history of the different domestic animals in the r

1407300946

9781407300948

English

British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd

13-Jun-11

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