Archaeofaunal Remains from the Past 4000 Years in Sahelian West Africa: Domestic Livestock, Subsistence Strategies and Environmental Changes

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Archaeopress, 2007 - History - 340 pages

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 research area, a major aim of this study is the reconstruction of the palaeoeconomy and palaeoecology of the investigated sites. The data Appendices include radiocarbon dates and details of faunal remains.

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Material and methods
27
Description of the faunal remains
35
Taphonomical analysis
77
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aegagrus f Anatidae archaeobotanical archaeological archaeozoological Bama Deltaic Complex Blé Mound Blé sites Blench Bohor reedbuck bones bovid Breunig and Neumann Burkina Faso Bush duiker charcoal clariid Connah domestic animals domestic dogs domestic fowl domestic mammals Early Iron Age excavated fish Gajiganna phase Galaga Galaga NA 92/2C galliform goat Capra aegagrus Gronenborn groups guineafowl Herpestidae hircus Holl humerus hunting Identified wild IIa/b IIIb Iron Age ISBN Kahlheber Kingdon Kissi Lake Chad Lake Chad area Late Stone Age layers LIA BF LIA LIA LIA livestock lungfish MacDonald and MacDonald Magnavita millennium BC Neer Ngala Nigeria Nile perch niloticus northern Burkina Faso numbers Ourebia Oursi Oursi BF Oursi hu-beero BF ovicaprines Ovis ammon f pearl millet Redunca remains research area Sahara Saouga Sheep Ovis ammon Skeletal element distribution southern Lake Chad species studied sites Sylvicapra Table taxa vertebrae West Africa wild or domestic zebu Zilum ΕΙΑ

Bibliographic information

TitleArchaeofaunal Remains from the Past 4000 Years in Sahelian West Africa: Domestic Livestock, Subsistence Strategies and Environmental Changes
BAR international series, ISSN 0143-3067
British Archaeological Reports International Series
British archaeological reports, International series
Volume 70 of Cambridge monographs in African archaeology
AuthorVeerle Linseele
Editionillustrated
PublisherArchaeopress, 2007
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedJun 30, 2010
ISBN1407300946, 9781407300948
Length340 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / Africa / North
History / Ancient / General
Science / Paleontology
Social Science / Archaeology
  
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