Oursi hu-beero : a medieval house complex in Burkina Faso, West Africa /

This final report describes the study of an exceptionally well-preserved Iron Age building discovered in northern Burkina Faso, West Africa. The site of Oursi hu-beero, meaning ""the big house of Oursi"" in the locally spoken Songhay language, was excavated in 2000 and 2001 by a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Petit, Lucas Pieter, Czerniewicz, Maya von, Pelzer, Christoph
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : [Oxbow [distributor], [Oxford] : [Sidestone] ; ©2011.
Temas:
To 1500
Excavations (Archaeology) > Burkina Faso > Oudalan.
Archaeology, Medieval > Burkina Faso > Oudalan.
Dwellings > Burkina Faso > Oudalan > History > To 1500.
Fouilles (Archéologie) > Burkina Faso > Oudalan.
Archéologie médiévale > Burkina Faso > Oudalan.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
Archaeology, Medieval
Antiquities
Dwellings
Excavations (Archaeology)
Oudalan (Burkina Faso) > Antiquities.
Burkina Faso > Oudalan
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Editors' Preface; Acknowledgement; Foreword; 1 Introduction to Oursi hu-beero; 2 Geomorphodynamic Events at Oursi; 3 Oursi hu-beero in Situ; 4 Stratigraphical Setting; 5 Architecture and Related Objects; 6 The Pottery; 7 Stone Objects; 8 Miscellaneous Finds; 9 Faunal Remains; 10 Analysis of the Charcoal Finds; 11 Non-Charcoal Archaeobotanical Remains; 12 Phytolith Analysis of Charred Leaf Remainsof Plaited Basketry; 13 Human Remains; 14 Radiocarbon Dates.
  • 15 Cultural Preservation and Socio-EconomicDevelopment: the Oursi hu-beero Project16 Oursi hu-beero; References; Appendix A: List of Loci; Appendix B
  • List of Bucketnumbers; Appendix C
  • List of Plant Remains (Excluding Charcoal)and Examined Archaeobotanical Samples; Appendix D
  • List of Animal Species.

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