The So Pots of Central Africa : Memories of the past /
This is an original study of very large pots in parts of Chad, Cameroon, and Nigeria. Found in excavations and surface fieldwork, they have been attributed to the So, a group of pre-Islamic inhabitants of the area before the sixteenth century AD, who have become mythologised as giants. Originally fo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
BAR Publishing,
[2019]
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| Series: | BAR International ;
2938. BAR international series. African archaeology ; volume 91. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This is an original study of very large pots in parts of Chad, Cameroon, and Nigeria. Found in excavations and surface fieldwork, they have been attributed to the So, a group of pre-Islamic inhabitants of the area before the sixteenth century AD, who have become mythologised as giants. Originally for burial, in some cases the pots have been dug up by villagers and reused: for brewing beer or as dye pits for indigo cloth. The book focuses on a group of these pots that survived until the late twentieth century in villages in a small part of Borno, north-eastern Nigeria. |
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| Item Description: | Formerly CIP. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 79 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781407356082 1407356089 9781407316888 1407316885 |
| DOI: | 10.30861/9781407316888 |