Early farmers
2005 Phillipson, D. W.

West African NeolithicAfrica > Western Africa
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Iron-using peoples before A.D. 1000
book chapter 1993 Phillipson, D. W.

West African Iron AgeAfrica > 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 Africa
book chapter 2005 Phillipson, D. W.

West African Regional DevelopmentAfrica > 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 ...