Abstract In West Africa, there is a disjuncture between historical processes in the second
millennium BC and late first millennium AD due to a comparative lack of archaeological …

This paper explores the evidence for beer production, consumption, and ritual use at
Kirikongo (100–1650 CE), a well-preserved archaeological site located in Mouhoun …

Many archaeological sites in the central West African savanna were either abandoned or
reduced in size between the 14th and 15th centuries CE. Explanations have tended to …

Recent archaeological research has transformed our understandings of events and
processes in West Africa between the beginning of iron‐use ca. 800 BCE and the arrival of …

Merchant diasporas have significantly influenced local and interregional processes in world
history, but archaeology is only starting to understand the diversity of political, economic …

Tell sites are central to archaeological interpretation in many world regions due to their
lengthy sequences of stratified deposits. However, the cultural choices that create …

Important aspects of the social, economic, and political lives of large villages, towns, and
cities are spatially situated within neighborhoods. In ethnohistoric central West Africa …

Résumé Cet article présente les fondements, la construction et les résultats d'un nouveau
modèle de périodisation des productions céramiques provenant des sites mégalithiques du …

Archaeologists increasingly recognise the significance of non-centralised forms of
complexity and employ diverse theoretical frameworks to understand their origins and …

Organic remains from archaeological research in the Mouhoun Bend of western Burkina
Faso have primarily been recovered from discrete pits and concavities associated with …