The Archaeology of Benin
Author: Graham Connah
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 348
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Author: Graham Connah
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 348
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-10-16
Total Pages: 819
ISBN-13: 9004376690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Two Thousand Years in Dendi, Northern Benin an international team examines a little-known part of the Niger River valley, West Africa, over the longue durée. This area, known as Dendi, has often been portrayed as the crossroads of major West African medieval empires but this understanding has been based on a small number of very patchy historical sources. Working from the ground up, from the archaeological sites, standing remains, oral traditions and craft industries of Dendi, Haour and her team offer the first in-depth account of the area. Contributors are: Paul Adderley, Mardjoua Barpougouni, Victor Brunfaut, Louis Champion, Annalisa Christie, Barbara Eichhorn, Anne Filippini, Dorian Fuller, Olivier Gosselain, David Kay, Nadia Khalaf, Nestor Labiyi, Raoul Laibi, Richard Lee, Veerle Linseele, Alexandre Livingstone Smith, Carlos Magnavita, Sonja Magnavita, Didier N'Dah, Nicolas Nikis, Sam Nixon, Franck N’Po Takpara, Jean-François Pinet, Ronika Power, Caroline Robion-Brunner, Lucie Smolderen, Abubakar Sule Sani, Romuald Tchibozo, Jennifer Wexler, Wim Wouters.
Author: Lucas Pieter Petit
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 206
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 62 Series Editors: John Alexander and Laurence Smith
Author: Klavs Randsborg
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2011-06-21
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781405185691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn archaeological study of Southern Bénin, exploring caves, palaces, geology, burials, iron and ceramics. Includes primary information and uncovers a wealth of dense description and images Provides a much-needed study of Southern Bénin where the discipline of archaeology is still in its emerging state The objectives of research were formulated in a simple manner: for whom, why, and when were the caves created?
Author: Peter Mitchell
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 1077
ISBN-13: 0191626147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrica has the longest and arguably the most diverse archaeological record of any of the continents. It is where the human lineage first evolved and from where Homo sapiens spread across the rest of the world. Later, it witnessed novel experiments in food-production and unique trajectories to urbanism and the organisation of large communities that were not always structured along strictly hierarchical lines. Millennia of engagement with societies in other parts of the world confirm Africa's active participation in the construction of the modern world, while the richness of its history, ethnography, and linguistics provide unusually powerful opportunities for constructing interdisciplinary narratives of Africa's past. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of African archaeology, covering the entirety of the continent's past from the beginnings of human evolution to the archaeological legacy of European colonialism. As well as covering almost all periods and regions of the continent, it includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates, and situates the subject's contemporary practice within the discipline's history and the infrastructural challenges now facing its practitioners. Bringing together essays on all these themes from over seventy contributors, many of them living and working in Africa, it offers a highly accessible, contemporary account of the subject for use by scholars and students of not only archaeology, but also history, anthropology, and other disciplines.
Author: Dan Hicks
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781786806833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWalk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objectsare all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of BeninCity, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections. The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.
Author: Klavs Randsborg
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2011-06-21
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9781405185691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn archaeological study of Southern Bénin, exploring caves, palaces, geology, burials, iron and ceramics. Includes primary information and uncovers a wealth of dense description and images Provides a much-needed study of Southern Bénin where the discipline of archaeology is still in its emerging state The objectives of research were formulated in a simple manner: for whom, why, and when were the caves created?
Author: Astley John Hilary Goodwin
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Published: 1957
Total Pages: 21
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: P. J. Darling
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 0
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