Christopher R Decorse
Biographic Data
| ID | 229885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher R Decorse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher R |
| FAMILY NAME | Decorse |
| SIGNATURE | DECORSE C R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 234 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Travail du laiton et production de mforowa parmi les Akan de la côte du Ghana du xviie au xxe siècle
Cet article traite de la fabrication et de la datation des ornements, outils et boites en laiton produits par les Akan dans les régions côtières du Ghana, en particulier les mforowa (sing. forowa), récipients en feuilles de laiton spécifiques utilisés pour y conserver le beurre de karité et qui sont associés à des rituels mortuaires. Les fouilles archéologiques ont permis de retrouver une variété d’artefacts fabriqués localement à partir de laito…
Brass Working and Mforowa Manufacture among the Akan of Coastal Ghana during the 17th–20th centuries
Cet article traite de la fabrication et de la datation des ornements, outils et boites en laiton produits par les Akan dans les régions côtières du Ghana, en particulier les mforowa (sing. forowa), récipients en feuilles de laiton spécifiques utilisés pour y conserver le beurre de karité et qui sont associés à des rituels mortuaires. Les fouilles archéologiques ont permis de retrouver une variété d’artefacts fabriqués localement à partir de laito…
Space, place, and the landscapes of slavery
Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World by Dale Tomich, Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, and Carlos Venegas Fornias examines the economic and political restructuring of 19th century slavery through contemporary paintings, plans and images. Ranging across the diverse settings of the lower Mississippi Valley, Cuba, and Brazil, the authors use a landscape-…
Stable isotopes from the African site of Elmina, Ghana and their usefulness in tracking the provenance of enslaved individuals in 18th‐ and 19th‐century North American populations
OBJECTIVES: Stable isotope values for historic period human remains from Elmina, Ghana, are compared to isotope data from 18th- and 19th-century North American sites as a test case for examining African origins and identifying first generation Africans in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Stable carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotope values were measured in skeletal remains. Values from the cosmopolitan port city …
British Forts and Their Communities
British Forts and Their Communities is about the diverse communities associated with English and British forts of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. While forts and fortifications have received a great deal of attention from both historians and archaeologists, research has often focused on their military roles. These iconic edifices were, however, places where an array of people of diverse ethnicities and backgrounds met and i…
West Africa During the Atlantic Slave Trade
"West Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade surveys archaeological data from Senegal to the Cameroon. It focuses on the past 500 years, a period that witnessed dramatic transformations in African political and social systems, as well as the consequences of European expansion, the advent of the Atlantic slave trade, and the expansion of Islamic polities in the West African Sahel. The geographical and topical scope of this volume draws together ar…
Sierra Leone in the Atlantic World
Underscoring the unique potential that this region has for the study of the African Diaspora, this article situates the slave trading fort on Bunce Island and the Sierra Leone hinterland in the wider context of Atlantic history. In doing so it underscores the need to view Atlantic exchanges within their specific cultural and historical settings, and to place them within the maritime Atlantic and capitalist world economies. The article further con…
Historical Archaeology
Postcolonial or Not
What do the labels “Historic period,” “historical archaeology,” and “Colonial” imply about the source materials drawn on, the time periods covered, and the conceptual vantages taken in interpreting the West African past? The historiographies presented are equally relevant to the understanding of the past—that is, the impacts of European contact, the Atlantic slave trade, and colo- nization—as they are to the present; the social, economic, and cu…
Rachel Lynelle Horlings 22 April 1979 – 16 March 2013
Fortified Towns of the Koinadugu Plateau
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Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa
This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using historical and archaeological perspectives on landscape, this collection of essays sheds light on how involvement in the commercial revolutions of the early modern period dramatically reshaped the regional contours of political organization across West Africa. The essays examine how social and political transformations oc…
Early Trade Posts And Forts Of West Africa
The first Portuguese forts in Africa can to some extent be seen as the last vestiges of the Crusades and the expansive energy of the Reconquista. During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries Portuguese expansive energies were increasingly concentrated on voyages southward along the African coast. Coastal Ghana was reached in 1470s, the Cape of Good Hope was rounded in 1488, and the circumnavigation of the globe completed between 1519 a…
Prelude to the Atlantic Trade
The Ghanaian forest was well settled by agricultural communities prior to the opening of the Atlantic trade in the late fifteenth century. The most prominent of these settlements were earthworks sites, construction of which began in the first millennium ce and continued until their abrupt abandonment prior to the mid-fifteenth century. In this article, previous archaeological data are evaluated in light of current research to provide a plausible …
Coastal Ghana in the first and second millennia AD
Cet article étudie les changements observables sur le littoral de l’actuel Ghana de la seconde moitié du premier millénaire de notre ère au début du dix-huitième siècle. La prospection et les fouilles des sites anciens révèlent l’existence de villages de taille modeste, tournés vers l’exploitation des ressources lagunaires. L’utilisation du fer et sa production sont attestées, mais à une échelle moindre, semble-t-il, que dans certaines zones fore…
Merrick Posnansky 2003
Ghana's Vanishing Past
Ghana's past is being destroyed at a rapid rate. Although the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board has in some instances successfully intervened to stop the illicit trading of antiquities, the destruction of archaeological sites as a consequence of development over the past two decades has been staggering and the pace is accelerating. The potential of the legislation that established the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board and empowered it to manage a…
Ama
Coast of Slaves (Slavernes Kyst)
Trouble With Siblings
Archaeology and History in Ilare District (Central Yorubaland, Nigeria), 1200-1900 A.D
Toward a Systematic Bead Description System
This study examines a glass bead assemblage from surveyed and excavated portions of the Falemme (Senegal) to present a classification system for the analysis of archaeological beads in Africa and beyond. Although bead classification poses special problems, it is argued that such analysis is worthwhile, as beads may shed light on the dynamics of production, exchange and consumption in the past, on processes of culture change and continuity, and, m…
Low-Fired Earthenwares in the African Diaspora
African Sites Archaeology in the Caribbean
This work examines archaeological research about African peoples who were brought to the Caribbean and their descendents in the 20th century. These contributions cover a wide geographic sample of regions, ranging from Caribbean studies to individual investigations on 12 different islands
Beads and People Series -Volumes 1 and 2, Peter Francis, Jr (1992, 1993)
the interests of maintaining its monopoly on the' bead trade, acquired a factory in France in 1900, and the firm of A. Sachse in Gablonz, Bohemia, in 1920.Indeed, until about 1955, Venice's Conterie seems to have cornered the bead export trade to South Africa; Saitowitz in her Appendix 2 tabulates the amazing quantity of beads (including glass rods and lamp-worked beads) exported to Africa during 1932-1955, country by country and year by year, to…
Culture contact, continuity, and change on the Gold Coast, AD 1400–1900
Low-Fired Earthenwares in the African Diaspora
Prelude to the Atlantic Trade
The Ghanaian forest was well settled by agricultural communities prior to the opening of the Atlantic trade in the late fifteenth century. The most prominent of these settlements were earthworks sites, construction of which began in the first millennium ce and continued until their abrupt abandonment prior to the mid-fifteenth century. In this article, previous archaeological data are evaluated in light of current research to provide a plausible …
African Sites Archaeology in the Caribbean
This work examines archaeological research about African peoples who were brought to the Caribbean and their descendents in the 20th century. These contributions cover a wide geographic sample of regions, ranging from Caribbean studies to individual investigations on 12 different islands
West African archaeology and the Atlantic slave trade
Recent archaeological research in the New World has focused on slave dwellings and post-emacipation communities, providing a great deal of insight into slave life and the emergence of African-American culture. In contrast, the material record in West Africa has supplied little new information on the slave trade. Numerous European forts and barracoons serve as pervasive reminders of its existence. However, excavation of these sites is only likely …
Toward a Systematic Bead Description System
This study examines a glass bead assemblage from surveyed and excavated portions of the Falemme (Senegal) to present a classification system for the analysis of archaeological beads in Africa and beyond. Although bead classification poses special problems, it is argued that such analysis is worthwhile, as beads may shed light on the dynamics of production, exchange and consumption in the past, on processes of culture change and continuity, and, m…
Ghana's Vanishing Past
Ghana's past is being destroyed at a rapid rate. Although the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board has in some instances successfully intervened to stop the illicit trading of antiquities, the destruction of archaeological sites as a consequence of development over the past two decades has been staggering and the pace is accelerating. The potential of the legislation that established the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board and empowered it to manage a…
Historical archaeology in sub-Saharan Africa—A review
Coastal Ghana in the first and second millennia AD
Cet article étudie les changements observables sur le littoral de l’actuel Ghana de la seconde moitié du premier millénaire de notre ère au début du dix-huitième siècle. La prospection et les fouilles des sites anciens révèlent l’existence de villages de taille modeste, tournés vers l’exploitation des ressources lagunaires. L’utilisation du fer et sa production sont attestées, mais à une échelle moindre, semble-t-il, que dans certaines zones fore…
Postcolonial or Not
What do the labels “Historic period,” “historical archaeology,” and “Colonial” imply about the source materials drawn on, the time periods covered, and the conceptual vantages taken in interpreting the West African past? The historiographies presented are equally relevant to the understanding of the past—that is, the impacts of European contact, the Atlantic slave trade, and colo- nization—as they are to the present; the social, economic, and cu…
Sierra Leone in the Atlantic World
Underscoring the unique potential that this region has for the study of the African Diaspora, this article situates the slave trading fort on Bunce Island and the Sierra Leone hinterland in the wider context of Atlantic history. In doing so it underscores the need to view Atlantic exchanges within their specific cultural and historical settings, and to place them within the maritime Atlantic and capitalist world economies. The article further con…
The Danes on the Gold Coast
Stable isotopes from the African site of Elmina, Ghana and their usefulness in tracking the provenance of enslaved individuals in 18th‐ and 19th‐century North American populations
OBJECTIVES: Stable isotope values for historic period human remains from Elmina, Ghana, are compared to isotope data from 18th- and 19th-century North American sites as a test case for examining African origins and identifying first generation Africans in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Stable carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotope values were measured in skeletal remains. Values from the cosmopolitan port city …
Merrick Posnansky 2003
Historical archaeology in sub-Saharan Africa—A review
African Civilizations
West African archaeology and the Atlantic slave trade
Recent archaeological research in the New World has focused on slave dwellings and post-emacipation communities, providing a great deal of insight into slave life and the emergence of African-American culture. In contrast, the material record in West Africa has supplied little new information on the slave trade. Numerous European forts and barracoons serve as pervasive reminders of its existence. However, excavation of these sites is only likely …
Culture contact, continuity, and change on the Gold Coast, AD 1400–1900
Beads and People Series -Volumes 1 and 2, Peter Francis, Jr (1992, 1993)
the interests of maintaining its monopoly on the' bead trade, acquired a factory in France in 1900, and the firm of A. Sachse in Gablonz, Bohemia, in 1920.Indeed, until about 1955, Venice's Conterie seems to have cornered the bead export trade to South Africa; Saitowitz in her Appendix 2 tabulates the amazing quantity of beads (including glass rods and lamp-worked beads) exported to Africa during 1932-1955, country by country and year by year, to…
The Danes on the Gold Coast
African Sites Archaeology in the Caribbean
This work examines archaeological research about African peoples who were brought to the Caribbean and their descendents in the 20th century. These contributions cover a wide geographic sample of regions, ranging from Caribbean studies to individual investigations on 12 different islands
Trouble With Siblings
Archaeology and History in Ilare District (Central Yorubaland, Nigeria), 1200-1900 A.D
Toward a Systematic Bead Description System
This study examines a glass bead assemblage from surveyed and excavated portions of the Falemme (Senegal) to present a classification system for the analysis of archaeological beads in Africa and beyond. Although bead classification poses special problems, it is argued that such analysis is worthwhile, as beads may shed light on the dynamics of production, exchange and consumption in the past, on processes of culture change and continuity, and, m…
Low-Fired Earthenwares in the African Diaspora
Merrick Posnansky 2003
Ghana's Vanishing Past
Ghana's past is being destroyed at a rapid rate. Although the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board has in some instances successfully intervened to stop the illicit trading of antiquities, the destruction of archaeological sites as a consequence of development over the past two decades has been staggering and the pace is accelerating. The potential of the legislation that established the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board and empowered it to manage a…
Ama
Coast of Slaves (Slavernes Kyst)
Coastal Ghana in the first and second millennia AD
Cet article étudie les changements observables sur le littoral de l’actuel Ghana de la seconde moitié du premier millénaire de notre ère au début du dix-huitième siècle. La prospection et les fouilles des sites anciens révèlent l’existence de villages de taille modeste, tournés vers l’exploitation des ressources lagunaires. L’utilisation du fer et sa production sont attestées, mais à une échelle moindre, semble-t-il, que dans certaines zones fore…
Early Trade Posts And Forts Of West Africa
The first Portuguese forts in Africa can to some extent be seen as the last vestiges of the Crusades and the expansive energy of the Reconquista. During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries Portuguese expansive energies were increasingly concentrated on voyages southward along the African coast. Coastal Ghana was reached in 1470s, the Cape of Good Hope was rounded in 1488, and the circumnavigation of the globe completed between 1519 a…
Prelude to the Atlantic Trade
The Ghanaian forest was well settled by agricultural communities prior to the opening of the Atlantic trade in the late fifteenth century. The most prominent of these settlements were earthworks sites, construction of which began in the first millennium ce and continued until their abrupt abandonment prior to the mid-fifteenth century. In this article, previous archaeological data are evaluated in light of current research to provide a plausible …
Fortified Towns of the Koinadugu Plateau
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa
This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using historical and archaeological perspectives on landscape, this collection of essays sheds light on how involvement in the commercial revolutions of the early modern period dramatically reshaped the regional contours of political organization across West Africa. The essays examine how social and political transformations oc…
Postcolonial or Not
What do the labels “Historic period,” “historical archaeology,” and “Colonial” imply about the source materials drawn on, the time periods covered, and the conceptual vantages taken in interpreting the West African past? The historiographies presented are equally relevant to the understanding of the past—that is, the impacts of European contact, the Atlantic slave trade, and colo- nization—as they are to the present; the social, economic, and cu…
Rachel Lynelle Horlings 22 April 1979 – 16 March 2013
Historical Archaeology
Sierra Leone in the Atlantic World
Underscoring the unique potential that this region has for the study of the African Diaspora, this article situates the slave trading fort on Bunce Island and the Sierra Leone hinterland in the wider context of Atlantic history. In doing so it underscores the need to view Atlantic exchanges within their specific cultural and historical settings, and to place them within the maritime Atlantic and capitalist world economies. The article further con…
West Africa During the Atlantic Slave Trade
"West Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade surveys archaeological data from Senegal to the Cameroon. It focuses on the past 500 years, a period that witnessed dramatic transformations in African political and social systems, as well as the consequences of European expansion, the advent of the Atlantic slave trade, and the expansion of Islamic polities in the West African Sahel. The geographical and topical scope of this volume draws together ar…
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