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Title Bénin archaeology : the ancient kingdoms / Klavs Randsborg & Inga Merkyte with Niels Algreen Møller & Søren Albek
Publication Info Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
Location Call Number Status
 Watson Library Stacks  DT541.3 R36 2009  v.1    REQUESTABLE
 Watson Library Stacks  DT541.3 R36 2009  v.2    REQUESTABLE
Description 2 v. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 30 cm
Series Acta archaeologica ; vol. 80-1
Acta archaeologica ; vol. 80-2
Acta archaeologica. Supplementa ; vol. XI
Centre of World Archaeology (CWA) - Publications ; 7
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English, with a summary and an appendix in French
Contents VOLUME 1 -- pt. I SOUTHERN BENIN -- 1. Geography, Soils, and Climate -- Geography -- Soils -- Climate -- 2. Ancient West Africa -- Archaeology and History -- Additional Information and Issues -- 3. Dahomean Kingdom -- Sources -- Myths -- Dahomean Kings -- Evaluation -- 4. Abomey -- Sources and Strategies -- Roads to Power -- Passing Allada -- Manipulating Religion -- Control of Land, People, and Minds -- City of Abomey -- Excavations of the Moat 2002 -- Finds from the 2002 Excavation -- Excavations of the Moat 2003 -- Date of the Moat of Abomey -- 5. Palaces -- Dahomey -- Ketu -- pt. II ARCHAEOLOGY AROUND ABOMEY-BOHICON -- 6. Previous Archaeological Work -- 7. Caves/Souterrains -- Subterranean Structures as African Phenomena -- Survey Techniques and Field-Work -- Typology -- Observations and Case Studies -- Oral Traditions -- Caves and Rituals -- Caves and Palaces -- Boundaries and Distributions -- Caves of the Terra of Allada -- In Ketu -- Ekpo at Kpankon -- Excavations -- Revisiting Agongointo -- Excavations at Agongointo -- Excavations East of Lokozoun -- Excavations near Adovi (Zakpota) -- Excavations at Za Tanta -- Excavations at Mihonhikpota -- Agboda and the Fosse at Didonou -- Excavations at the Ditch -- Written Sources -- Summary and Chronology -- Dates -- 8. Dahomean Burials -- Introduction -- Sodohome -- Yokon -- Bohicon Church -- Kana-Damehouegbo (Mihonhikpota) -- Dogueme (Guedevi), Abomey -- Bohicon North -- Other graves -- Interpretations and Conclusions -- pt. III BEFORE DAHOMEY -- 9. Ceramics -- Theoretical Background -- Challenges -- Ethnoarchaeology -- 10. Sodohome -- Sodohome Channel -- Lithics -- Yellow Pottery Period (670-540 BC) -- Plain Pottery Period (650-870 AD) -- Sodohome Period (1000-1200 AD) -- Summary of Dated Contexts -- Ceramics of the Sodohome Period (1000-1200 AD) -- Categories of Sodohome Culture Pottery -- Sodohome Culture: Other finds -- Mythology and Traces of Rituals -- 11. Roots of Abomey -- Below the Rampart (1200-1300 AD) -- Ceramics -- 12. Pottery Between 1300 & 1600 AD -- Iron Production Sites -- Conclusions: The Pre-Dahomeans -- pt. IV DAHOMEY -- 13. Ceramics -- Moat of Abomey -- Kana Hadagon I -- Other Localities -- Agongointo -- Didonou -- Concluding Remarks -- pt. V IRON -- 14. Iron Technologies -- From Ore to Slag -- Iron in Benin -- Technological Traditions -- Calculations of Output -- Scale of Iron Production -- Between South and North -- Symbolic Dimensions -- 15. Iron Production Sites -- Iron Ore Mining Sites in Benin -- Iron Production Sites in Southern Benin -- Group A From Tado to Bohicon -- Sodohome -- Group B From Tchito to Pobe and Ketu -- Sofonhouinta -- Group C Between Abomey and Dogbo Tota -- Etchehoue -- Aguinkpodji and Danvohoue (Founbohoue) -- Segba -- Iron Production in Northern Benin -- Other Localities in West Africa -- Bassar -- Nigeria -- pt. VI HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION -- 16. Conclusions -- General Summary -- Scientific Summary -- 17. Resume en francais -- 18. Bibliography -- VOLUME 2 -- pt. VII DOCUMENTATION -- Catalogue 1 Palaces -- List of Royal Palaces and Compounds -- Literary Information -- Catalogue 2 List Of Caves -- Catalogue 3 List Of Iron Production Sites -- APPENDIX 1 ANALYSES OF IRON SAMPLES -- Conclusions -- Tuyeres and Clays -- Slag and Ores -- APPENDIX 2 REPORT OF 1904 ON TRADITIONAL IRON PRODUCTION -- APPENDIX 3 SODOHOME LITHICS -- APPENDIX 4 QUEENS' MARKET, ABOMEY -- APPENDIX 5 GRINDING SITES -- APPENDIX 6 AGONGOINTO. MUSEE DU PASSE VIVANT (Museum Booklet in French)
Subjects Excavations (Archaeology) -- Benin
Benin -- Antiquities
Additional Authors Merkyte, Inga.
Series Acta archaeologica ; v. 80:1.
Acta archaeologica ; v. 80:2.
Acta archaeologica. Supplementum ; v. 11.
Publications (Centre of World Archaeology) ; 7.
ISBN 9781405185691
1405185694
OCLC 665135298