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Author Altschul, Jeffrey H., author

Title A slave who would be king : oral tradition and archaeology of the recent past in the Upper Senegal River Basin / Jeffrey H. Altschul, Ibrahima Thiaw and Gerald Wait
Published Oxford : Archaeopress, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (colour)
Contents Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Environment and Culture History in Southeastern Senegal; Chapter 3: Village Histories and Ethnography within the Oromin Sabodala Concession; Chapter 4: Archaeological Field Methods; Chapter 5: Archaeological Survey and Test-Excavation Results; Chapter 6: Artifact Analyses; Chapter 7: Geoarchaeological Investigations; Chapter 8: Where Are the Sites, and Why Are They There? A Methodological Exercise in Archaeological Predictive Modeling; Chapter 9: Settlement Dynamics in Beledougou in the Second Millennium a.d.; Chapter 10: Summary; Appendix A: Gazetteer of Sites; Appendix B: Gazetteer of Features and Sites; Appendix C: Ceramic Decorative Techniques; Appendix D: Ceramic Rim Sherd Data
Summary This report makes a significant contribution to the archaeology and ethnography of eastern Senegal. Combining ethnographic and archaeological data yields a picture of a period of intense social change at the end of the 19th century which extended well into the mid-20th century
Notes Previously issued in print: 2016
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Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 8, 2016)
Subject Archaeology -- Senegal
Ethnology -- Senegal.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
Archaeology
Ethnology
SUBJECT Senegal -- History -- 19th century
Senegal -- History -- 20th century
Subject Senegal
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Thiaw, Ibrahima, author
Wait, G. A. (Gerald A.), author.
Archaeopress, publisher.
ISBN 1784913529
9781784913526