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Title: | New Perspectives on Sincu Bara, a First Millennium Site in the Senegal Valley |
Authors: | McIntosh, Susan Keech Bocoum, Hamady |
Year: | 2000 |
Periodical: | African Archaeological Review |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | March |
Pages: | 1-43 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Senegal |
Subjects: | Iron Age prehistory Anthropology and Archaeology |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006694511823 |
Abstract: | The 67-ha site of Sincu Bara in the Middle Senegal Valley was discovered and excavated in the 1970s. Deposits with brass appeared to be associated with radiocarbon dates as early as the fifth century AD. It appeared that most of the deposits related to a single, long-lasting occupation by people who arrived with sophisticated copper-based metallurgy in the fifth century and remained at least until the eleventh century, without discernible modification in their material culture. Results of new excavations in 1991-1992 indicate that this interpretation must be modified, since considerable change in material culture, including the introduction of copper-based metals between AD 800 and AD 900, has now been documented. This article summarizes the data from these new excavations and suggests that earlier interpretations were based largely on material from disturbed, severely mixed deposits, which gave a false picture of homogeneity through time. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. |