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The emergence of plant food production in the West African sahel: new evidence from northeast Nigeria and northern Burkina Faso
aspects of african archaeology : papers from the 10th congress of the panafrican association for prehistory and related studies • Harare • Published In 1996 • Pages: 441-448
By: Neumann, Katharina, Ballouche, Aziz, Klee, Marlies.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Archaeobotanical data collected from two sites on the southern edge of the Sahel are discussed in this document. Botanical remains from Nigeria are described with an emphasis on whether they are wild or domestic, and a pollen profile from Burkina Faso is assessed for evidence of agriculture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Flora
- Collecting
- Cereal agriculture
- Environmental quality
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- West African Neolithic
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeobotanist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2021
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1994 – 1995
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 3000-1900
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Oursi, Sahel, Burkina Faso; Kursakata, Borno, Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Katharina Neumann, Aziz Ballouche and Marlies Klee
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-448)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 97980077
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- West African Neolithic