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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Search for Takrur
    sub title: Archaeological Excavations and Reconnaissance along the Middle Senegal Valley
  name:
    name part: McIntosh, Roderick J.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: McIntosh, Susan Keech
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Bocoum, Hamady
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: fre
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxii, 578 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: "This heavily illustrated archaeological research report documents the development of the West African trading center of Takrur. Chapters on iron production, ceramics, plant and animal use, and settlement patterns accompany field data, and historical and ethnohistorical evidence on Middle Senegal River Valley societies from around 800 BC through AD 1000"--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: The Middle Senegal Valley archaeological project: seeking Takrur / Susan Keech McIntosh -- Background to the research / Roderick J. McIntosh and Susan Keech McIntosh -- Excavation methodology / Roderick J. McIntosh -- The Cubalel and Siwré excavations / Roderick J. McIntosh and Susan Keech McIntosh, with contributions by Hamady Bocoum, Ndèye Sokhna Guèye, and Ibrahima Thiaw -- Importance of excavated features along the Middle Senegal Valley / Hamady Bocoum -- The Cubalel and Siwré pottery assemblages / Susan Keech McIntosh and Ndèye Sokhna Guèye -- Small finds / Roderick J. McIntosh -- Iron working in the Middle Senegal Valley / David J. Killick -- Copper alloys / Thomas R. Fenn and David J. Killick -- Paleoethnobotanical analysis: seeds and fruits from Cubalel Unit C-3A / Daphne Gallagher and Shawn Murray -- Mammalian, avian, and reptilian remains / Kevin C. MacDonald and Rachel Hutton MacDonald -- Fish remains from Cubalel and Siwré / Wim Van Neer -- Reconnaissance of the Cubalel study region / Roderick J. McIntosh and Alioune Deme -- Overview and conclusions / Susan Keech McIntosh and Roderick J. McIntosh -- Appendix A. Excavation and survey field forms -- Appendix B. Excavated levels and features at Cubalel and Siwré / Roderick J. McIntosh, Susan Keech McIntosh, and Hamady Bocoum -- Appendix C. Archaeomagnetic dating in the Middle Senegal Valley / Ibrahima Thiaw and Tom Gray -- Appendix D. Pottery of the Cubalel and Siwré sites -- Appendix E. Iron and slag recovered from the Cubalel and Siwré sites -- Appendix F. Paleoethnobotanical identification / Shawn Murray and Daphne Gallagher -- Appendix G. Faunal remains.
  note: Edited by Roderick J. McIntosh, Susan Keech McIntosh, and Hamady Bocoum.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-559) and index.
  note: In English with portions in French.
  subject:
    geographic code: fw-----
  subject:
    geographic: Senegal River Valley
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    geographic: Takrur Empire
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    topic: Antiquities, Prehistoric
    geographic: Senegal River Valley
  subject:
    topic: Antiquities, Prehistoric
    geographic: Takrur Empire
  subject:
    topic: Excavations (Archaeology)
    geographic: Senegal River Valley
  subject:
    topic: Excavations (Archaeology)
    geographic: Takrur Empire
  subject:
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    topic: Antiquities, Prehistoric
  subject:
    topic: Excavations (Archaeology)
  subject:
    geographic: Africa
    geographic: Senegal River Valley
  subject:
    geographic: Africa
    geographic: Takrur Empire
  classification: DT549.3 .S43 2016
  classification: 966.3
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Yale University publications in anthropology ; no. 93
  identifier: 9780913516294 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 0913516295 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 2016039510
  record info:
    record content source: IEN/DLC
    record creation date: 160825
    record change date: 20170926152335.0
    record identifier: in00003732056
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng