A Survey of Interlacustrine Chronology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8979293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dalya Cohen (corresponding author), D W Cohen |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 177-199 |
| Publication date | 1970-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853700009932 |
| OpenAlex | W1989143642 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
The character and quality of the available evidence on the pre-colonial history of the Interlacustrine region of East Africa limit the possibilities of applying any more than roughly estimated dates or eras to events and persons of the region's pre-colonial past. By pooling and comparing the available chronological evidence (genealogies and tie-ins) relating to the dynastic units of the region, one has the means to test the accuracy of the genealogical evidence as well as the evidence linking rulers in one dynasty with rulers in others. Such pooling permits a closer examination of the ‘average dynastic generation’ which is the most useful chronological measurement for the region's past and which is the basis for the existing chronological constructions. With the available eclipse and carbon dates, it is possible to build a reasonably estimated core chronology for the region on the basis of the average dynastic generation. This core chronology may be extended to include states and dynasties—such as those in Busoga—which are connected to the core through tie-ins but for which no eclipse or carbon dates are available. The ‘average dynastic generation’ is not a useful chronological measurement in those Soga states which are marked by extended fraternal and collateral succession. By working through the tie-ins which suggest contemporaneity between certain Soga rulers and rulers in the Interlacustrine core dynasties (particularly Buganda), it is possible to extend the central chronology, and therefore credibly estimated dates or eras, to events and persons throughout Busoga
Ancient history · Archaeology · Chronology · Colonialism · Eclipse · Empire · Genealogy · Geography · African history and culture analysis · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History
The western Maghrib and Sudan
The East African interior
Eastern Africa
The central Sahara and Sudan
Africa in Europe and the Americas
The East Coast, Madagascar and the Indian Ocean
The Guinea coast
Upper and Lower Guinea
Central Africa from Cameroun to the Zambezi
Central Africa from Cameroun to the Zambezi
The eastern Maghrib and the central Sudan
Ethnohistory
The Cambridge History of Africa
The Problem of the Lwo
Contradictions at the Heart of the Canon
The Kinglists of Buganda
On the Methodology of Chronology
Ritual and State Making in Precolonial Rwanda
Tlokwa Oral Traditions and the Interface between History and Archaeology at Marothodi
Trick Cyclists? Recontextualizing Rwandan Dynastic Chronology
Towards an Early History of the East African Interior
Oral Tradition and Chronology
Oral tradition in the pacific
The Antecedents of the Interlacustrine Kingdoms
Reflections on Early Interlacustrine Chronology
Warfare, Competition, and the Durability of ‘Political Smallness’ in Nineteenth-Century Busoga
Day was of sudden turned into night
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,49 |
| Citation span | 1971 - 2021 (51) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |