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Iron-using peoples before A.D. 1000book chapter 1993 • Phillipson, D. W.
West African Iron Age • Africa > Western Africa
This is an overview of the African Iron Age. Phillipson mentions two early copper-working sites in Akjoujt, Mauritania and Agadez, Niger. Early iron-working sites include Rim, Burkina Faso; Air, Niger; and Jenné-jeno, Mali. Other Iron Age sites are N...The second millennium AD in sub-Saharan Africabook chapter 2005 • Phillipson, D. W.
West African Regional Development • Africa > Western Africa
This document provides a broad overview of most of sub-Saharan Africa, with a section on West Africa. The focus is on the archaeological record which, at the time of writing, emphasized the more easily detected larger towns and cities, concentrating ...Early farmersbook chapter 2005 • Phillipson, D. W.
West African Neolithic • Africa > Western Africa
This is an overview of some of the first farmers and herders in Africa north of the equator. The author discusses where indigenous plants and animals were first domesticated, and which ones were introduced from outside Africa. Rock art, pottery, and ...