Sirio Canós-Donnay
Biographic Data
| ID | 283712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sirio Canós-Donnay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sirio |
| FAMILY NAME | Canós-Donnay |
| SIGNATURE | CANÓS-DONNAY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0747-8640 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Kings, warriors and shifting towns: The struggle for power in the Upper Casamance (Senegal), 1830–1960
The history of colonialism in the Kolda (or Upper Casamance) Region of southern Senegal is a complex one that is still only partially understood. Like most places in Sub-Saharan Africa, its historiography has tended to rely overwhelmingly (with some notable exceptions) on European sources; thus, despite the best efforts of critical historians, European agencies have often been over-represented, while African ones were sidelined or blurred. Additi…
Archaeology and community engagement in the Senegambia: From colonial mindsets to creative interactions
Local communities have been a central feature of archaeological projects in the Senegambia since the earliest research over a century ago, but their contribution has often been erased and their voice denied. This has fortunately started to change, although the weight of inherited colonial epistemologies and their workbench of concepts, modi operandi, languages, and dissemination strategies has limited the depth of the change. In this paper, we re…
Shifting Sedentism in West Africa
Studies of past mobility in West Africa and beyond have traditionally seen sedentism and mobility as binary opposites, with sedentism as the stable option and mobility as an exception that needs to be explained. Additionally, archaeologists have tended to gravitate toward deeply stratified sites, while flat sites were often neglected, presumed to be ephemeral and of little interest. Since the beginning of the 21st century, however, archaeologists…
Les fortifications endogènes au Sénégal Oriental (17ème–19ème siècle), written by Jacques Aymeric Nsangou
Kaabu y Fulaadu: Historias polifónicas y pasados plurales
En este artículo considero algunas de las cuestiones que emergen del uso de fuentes múltiples y diversas a la hora de estudiar el pasado mediante una metáfora musical. Exploro tres posibles relaciones entre fuentes con grados crecientes de dificultad conceptual (unísono, consonancia y disonancia) y argumento que las disonancias no deben de ser ignoradas o dejadas de lado. Al contrario, poner el foco en los elementos disonantes puede a menudo reve…
The Empire of Mali
The Mali Empire is one of the largest and most widely known precolonial African states. It has featured in films, video games, works of fiction, and its memory is still a profound force in the articulation of social and political identities across Mande West Africa. Founded in the 13th century in the south of modern Mali, it quickly grew from a small kingdom to a vast empire stretching from the Senegambia in the west to Ivory Coast in the south. …
Wheelbarrows full of mud: Improvising a learning programme on a community archaeology project
What happens when you are asked to run a learning programme for young people on a community archaeology project, at the very last minute and with minimal resources? This paper is an overview and critical review of the programme that we and some of our students coordinated for a group of local children in the village of Villanueva de Santo Adriano, Asturias, Spain. It describes the planning and delivery of the five-day programme of activities, som…
Liza Gijanto: The Life of Trade: Events and Happenings in Niumi’s Atlantic Center
A slave who would be king: Oral tradition and archaeology of the recent past in the Upper Senegal river basin
Balancing written history with oral tradition: The legacy of the Songhoy people
"Balancing written history with oral tradition: the legacy of the Songhoy people." International Journal of Heritage Studies, 23(9), pp. 911–912
Shifting sedentism in the Upper Casamance (Senegal)
The Upper Casamance is a region that has witnessed dramatic socio-political developments in the last millennium, including its conquest by the Mali Empire and a prominent role in the Atlantic trade, but which until now had never been archaeologically studied. Two seasons of fieldwork undertaken in 2013 revealed a landscape of shallow, short-lived sites at odds with the large permanent towns described by historical accounts and oral traditions. Th…
Territories, fortresses, and shifting towns: Archaeological landscapes of the Upper Casamance (Senegal), seventh-nineteenth centuries AD
Territories, fortresses, and shifting towns: archaeological landscapes of the Upper Casamance (Senegal), seventh-nineteenth centuries AD." Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 51(3), pp. 414–415
Shifting sedentism in the Upper Casamance (Senegal)
The Upper Casamance is a region that has witnessed dramatic socio-political developments in the last millennium, including its conquest by the Mali Empire and a prominent role in the Atlantic trade, but which until now had never been archaeologically studied. Two seasons of fieldwork undertaken in 2013 revealed a landscape of shallow, short-lived sites at odds with the large permanent towns described by historical accounts and oral traditions. Th…
The Empire of Mali
The Mali Empire is one of the largest and most widely known precolonial African states. It has featured in films, video games, works of fiction, and its memory is still a profound force in the articulation of social and political identities across Mande West Africa. Founded in the 13th century in the south of modern Mali, it quickly grew from a small kingdom to a vast empire stretching from the Senegambia in the west to Ivory Coast in the south. …
Territories, fortresses, and shifting towns: Archaeological landscapes of the Upper Casamance (Senegal), seventh-nineteenth centuries AD
Territories, fortresses, and shifting towns: archaeological landscapes of the Upper Casamance (Senegal), seventh-nineteenth centuries AD." Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 51(3), pp. 414–415
Kaabu y Fulaadu: Historias polifónicas y pasados plurales
En este artículo considero algunas de las cuestiones que emergen del uso de fuentes múltiples y diversas a la hora de estudiar el pasado mediante una metáfora musical. Exploro tres posibles relaciones entre fuentes con grados crecientes de dificultad conceptual (unísono, consonancia y disonancia) y argumento que las disonancias no deben de ser ignoradas o dejadas de lado. Al contrario, poner el foco en los elementos disonantes puede a menudo reve…
Wheelbarrows full of mud: Improvising a learning programme on a community archaeology project
What happens when you are asked to run a learning programme for young people on a community archaeology project, at the very last minute and with minimal resources? This paper is an overview and critical review of the programme that we and some of our students coordinated for a group of local children in the village of Villanueva de Santo Adriano, Asturias, Spain. It describes the planning and delivery of the five-day programme of activities, som…
Shifting sedentism in the Upper Casamance (Senegal)
The Upper Casamance is a region that has witnessed dramatic socio-political developments in the last millennium, including its conquest by the Mali Empire and a prominent role in the Atlantic trade, but which until now had never been archaeologically studied. Two seasons of fieldwork undertaken in 2013 revealed a landscape of shallow, short-lived sites at odds with the large permanent towns described by historical accounts and oral traditions. Th…
Territories, fortresses, and shifting towns: Archaeological landscapes of the Upper Casamance (Senegal), seventh-nineteenth centuries AD
Territories, fortresses, and shifting towns: archaeological landscapes of the Upper Casamance (Senegal), seventh-nineteenth centuries AD." Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 51(3), pp. 414–415
Liza Gijanto: The Life of Trade: Events and Happenings in Niumi’s Atlantic Center
A slave who would be king: Oral tradition and archaeology of the recent past in the Upper Senegal river basin
Balancing written history with oral tradition: The legacy of the Songhoy people
"Balancing written history with oral tradition: the legacy of the Songhoy people." International Journal of Heritage Studies, 23(9), pp. 911–912
The Empire of Mali
The Mali Empire is one of the largest and most widely known precolonial African states. It has featured in films, video games, works of fiction, and its memory is still a profound force in the articulation of social and political identities across Mande West Africa. Founded in the 13th century in the south of modern Mali, it quickly grew from a small kingdom to a vast empire stretching from the Senegambia in the west to Ivory Coast in the south. …
Wheelbarrows full of mud: Improvising a learning programme on a community archaeology project
What happens when you are asked to run a learning programme for young people on a community archaeology project, at the very last minute and with minimal resources? This paper is an overview and critical review of the programme that we and some of our students coordinated for a group of local children in the village of Villanueva de Santo Adriano, Asturias, Spain. It describes the planning and delivery of the five-day programme of activities, som…
Shifting Sedentism in West Africa
Studies of past mobility in West Africa and beyond have traditionally seen sedentism and mobility as binary opposites, with sedentism as the stable option and mobility as an exception that needs to be explained. Additionally, archaeologists have tended to gravitate toward deeply stratified sites, while flat sites were often neglected, presumed to be ephemeral and of little interest. Since the beginning of the 21st century, however, archaeologists…
Les fortifications endogènes au Sénégal Oriental (17ème–19ème siècle), written by Jacques Aymeric Nsangou
Kaabu y Fulaadu: Historias polifónicas y pasados plurales
En este artículo considero algunas de las cuestiones que emergen del uso de fuentes múltiples y diversas a la hora de estudiar el pasado mediante una metáfora musical. Exploro tres posibles relaciones entre fuentes con grados crecientes de dificultad conceptual (unísono, consonancia y disonancia) y argumento que las disonancias no deben de ser ignoradas o dejadas de lado. Al contrario, poner el foco en los elementos disonantes puede a menudo reve…
Archaeology and community engagement in the Senegambia: From colonial mindsets to creative interactions
Local communities have been a central feature of archaeological projects in the Senegambia since the earliest research over a century ago, but their contribution has often been erased and their voice denied. This has fortunately started to change, although the weight of inherited colonial epistemologies and their workbench of concepts, modi operandi, languages, and dissemination strategies has limited the depth of the change. In this paper, we re…
Kings, warriors and shifting towns: The struggle for power in the Upper Casamance (Senegal), 1830–1960
The history of colonialism in the Kolda (or Upper Casamance) Region of southern Senegal is a complex one that is still only partially understood. Like most places in Sub-Saharan Africa, its historiography has tended to rely overwhelmingly (with some notable exceptions) on European sources; thus, despite the best efforts of critical historians, European agencies have often been over-represented, while African ones were sidelined or blurred. Additi…
History (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (4 works) · History (4 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works)