Archaeofaunal remains from the past 4000 years in Sahelian West Africa : domestic livestock, subsistence strategies and environmental changes

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Archaeofaunal remains from the past 4000 years in Sahelian West Africa : domestic livestock, subsistence strategies and environmental changes

Veerle Linseele

(BAR international series, 1658)(Cambridge monographs in African archaeology, 70)

Archaeopress, 2007

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-191)

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The faunal assemblages that are the subject of this study were excavated in northern Burkina Faso and the southern Lake Chad area, within the framework of a multidisciplinary project. They cover almost the entire four millennia between 2000 BC and the present. Besides gathering information on the history of the different domestic animals in the research area, a major aim of this study is the reconstruction of the palaeoeconomy and palaeoecology of the investigated sites. The data Appendices include radiocarbon dates and details of faunal remains.

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