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Title: | The Inland Niger Delta before the Empire of Mali: Evidence from Jenne-Jeno |
Authors: | McIntosh, Roderick J. McIntosh, Susan Keech |
Year: | 1981 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 22 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 1-22 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Mali |
Subjects: | archaeology settlement patterns History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/182149 |
Abstract: | The failure of any Arab or European source prior to the mid-fifteenth century to mention the town of Jenne has convinced various historians of the Western Sudan that Jenne did not exist substantially prior to this time. Archeological investigations, however, undertaken in 1977 at the ancestral site of Jenne, known as Jenne-jeno or Djoboro, have demonstrated that the settleaent was established by the third century B.C. This article present a summary of the excavation results and briefly considers the implications of the archeological data for the understanding of the development of the Western Sudan during the first millenium A.D. It begins with a discussion of historical sources. Fig., notes, sum. |