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Cities without citadels: understanding urban origins along the middle Niger
archaeology of africa : foods, metals, and towns • London • Published In 1993 • Pages: 622-641
By: McIntosh, Susan Keech, McIntosh, Roderick J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
McIntosh and McIntosh use their data from Jenné-jeno to question long held assumptions regarding urbanism. The Jenné-jeno data shows a large concentration of population without monumental public architecture and settlement hierarhcy without evidence of social ranking. They discuss population estimates and rank-size distribution. For similar arguments see documents nos. 5 and 6.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Population
- Settlement patterns
- External trade
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- West African Iron Age
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- 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.
- Archaeologist
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1977, 1981
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2250-1100 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Jenné-jeno, Inland Niger Delta, Mali
- NotesAdditional notes
- Susan Keech McIntosh and Roderick J. McIntosh
- For bibliographical references see document number 17: Anonymous
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 92013921
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iron Age--Africa