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14 - Long-Distance Exchange and Urban Trajectories in the First Millennium AD

Case Studies from the Middle Niger and Middle Senegal River Valleys

from Part III - Neighbours and Comparanda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

By
Susan Keech Mcintosh
Edited by
Martin Sterry  and
David J. Mattingly
Martin Sterry
Affiliation:
University of Durham
David J. Mattingly
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
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Summary

It has been 40 years since the first publication of results of archaeological investigations at the massive settlement mound of Jenné-jeno challenged traditional historiography concerning towns and trade in West Africa. Prior assumptions that Arab-initiated Trans-Saharan trade provided the impetus for town growth along the Middle Niger have yielded to an explanatory model grounded in the local development of regional, inter-regional and long-distance exchange and interaction by the mid-first millennium AD. These findings coincided with an active political and scholarly agenda to decolonise Africa’s past, which provided an incentive for archaeologists to seek additional instances of early trade and town growth along the Middle Niger (Méma, Dia, Timbuktu, Gao, Bentia) and the Middle Senegal (Fig. 14.1).

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