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Korounkorokale revisitedarticle 1997 • MacDonald, Kevin C.
West African Neolithic • Africa > Western Africa
This is a summary of findings in expanded excavations at the Korounkorokalé rockshelter, occupied from late in the Late Stone Age into the Iron Age. The researchers found a microlithic chipped stone industry, ground stone artifacts and ceramics, but ...Before the Empire of Ghanaessay 1998 • MacDonald, Kevin C.
West African Neolithic • Africa > Western Africa
This exploration of the hypothesis that social complexity arose among various mobile pastoralists in northern Africa during the Neolithic concentrates on acquisition of cattle, polished stone prestige objects and burial monuments. It includes a summa...A reconsideration of the West African macrolithic conundrumarticle 1994 • MacDonald, Kevin C. & Allsworth-Jones, P. (Philip)
West African Late Stone Age • Africa > Western Africa
Four sites were found during a survey of Vallée du Serpent, Mali: Sirakoro-Ancien, Ntyébougou, Giré-Ouest, and Giré-Est. These sites are compared with other lithic sites throughout West Africa that date from 14,000-1500 years ago. Both macrolithic an...Excavations at Jenné-Jeno, Hambarketolo, and Kaniana (Inland Niger Delta, Mali) : 1994 • McIntosh, Susan Keech et al.
West African Iron Age • Africa > Western Africa
The Inland Niger Delta (IND) site of Jenné-jeno is one of the longest Iron Age sequences in west Africa (250 B.C.-1400 A.D.), reaching its peak settlement density in 900 A.D. The archaeologists carried out a site survey in 1977 and returned in 1980 t...