Kevin C Macdonald
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 287996 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kevin C Macdonald |
| NOMBRES | Kevin C |
| APELLIDO | Macdonald |
| FIRMA | MACDONALD K C |
| AFILIACIONES | University College London |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 245 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Graham Connah (1934–2023)
Graham Connah AM (Member of the Order of Australia) was a foundational West African archaeologist, a generation behind Thurstan Shaw and Peter Shinnie but an early innovator nevertheless. He has le
“Bamanaya is so difficult to leave behind”
Islamization in Mande West Africa gradually accompanied the expansion of mercantile groups and was surprisingly accommodating via syncretic processes with local spiritual traditions. Elites of the Empire of Mali were amongst the first to embrace Islam and mediate between it and indigenous earth religions. Yet this process was patchy across different cultural sectors and from the seventeenth century onwards there were upswellings of Bamanaya, eart…
The prehistory of Jebel Moya, Sudan
This paper outlines the ways in which the project is addressing the colonial legacy of Henry Wellcome as well as presenting the data from the first three field seasons at Jebel Moya, south-central Sudan. These data have substantially revised our chronological and socio-economic understanding of the site. Our excavations, initiated in 2017 and continued in 2019 and 2022, show a longer, more continuous occupation of the site than has been previousl…
Architecture and Settlement Growth on the Southern Edge of the Sahara
Since the 1970s, there has been a significant increase in regional data sets relating to tell sites in the West African Sahel. Previous colonial notions that Trans-Saharan commerce in the Islamic era created the first Sub-Saharan towns and polities have now been largely abandoned; it is all too apparent that complex settlement systems were widespread in the south long before the eighth century. Yet questions of Trans-Saharan interactions with the…
Knowledge, Ethics, and Power
October 01 2020 Knowledge, Ethics, and Power: Publishing African Objects Without Clear African Provenance Lisa Homann, Lisa Homann Guest Dialogue Editor; Associate Professor, Department of Art & Art History, UNC Charlotte; UNC Editorial Board Member, African Arts Consortium Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar UCLA Editorial Board, UCLA Editorial Board Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Schola…
Nitrogen isotope values of Pennisetum glaucum (pearl millet) grains
New findings on the significance of Jebel Moya in the eastern Sahel
This paper presents new excavation data and new radiometric dates for Jebel Moya, south-central Sudan. These data suggest revisions to previous chronological understandings of the site. New excavations, initiated in 2017, show a longer, more continuous occupation of the site than has been previously recognised. Archaeozoological and archaeobotanical analyses provide evidence for domesticated taxa. Archaeobotanical evidence is dominated by domesti…
The ‘Pays Dô’ and the Origins of the Empire of Mali
On the Margins of Ghana and Kawkaw
This article summarises the results of four seasons of excavation at Tongo Maaré Diabal ( AD 500-1150), near Douentza, Mali. Deep stratigraphic excavations were directed by MacDonald and Togola in 1993, 1995 and by MacDonald in 1996. Complementary, large exposure excavations of the abandonment layer were undertaken by Gestrich in 2010. The combined excavation results speak to topics of craft specialisation, trade, and social organisation. They pr…
Pottery
M Faunal Remains Tables
In Essouk-Tadmekka Sam Nixon and a team of scholars present the first archaeological exploration of the southern Saharan town of Essouk-Tadmekka, in early Islamic times an important market centre on the trans-Saharan camel-caravan routes linking the Mediterranean and West Africa.
E Pottery Analysis Tables and Additional Illustrative Materials
In Essouk-Tadmekka Sam Nixon and a team of scholars present the first archaeological exploration of the southern Saharan town of Essouk-Tadmekka, in early Islamic times an important market centre on the trans-Saharan camel-caravan routes linking the Mediterranean and West Africa.
African Re-Genesis
Ripped from motherland and family, ethnically mixed to quell the potential of uprisings, and brutalized by regimes of hard labor, the heart - the spirit - of Africa did not stop beating in the New World. Rather, it survived and has re-emerged; changed by contacts with new cultures and environments, but still part of the continuum of African tradition: an African Re-Genesis. This is the first volume in its field to emphasize the interdisciplinary …
Professor Thurstan Shaw CBE, FBA, FSA
Segou, Slavery, and Sifinso
© Cambridge University Press 2012. INTRODUCTION Slavery formed a fundamental element in the economic production systems of many historic African states. Such economies, which include documented West African cases, such as the Sokoto Caliphate, Songhai, and Segou, appear to have relied upon an enslaved workforce, derived from warfare, for agricultural production (Lovejoy 2005; Meillassoux 1991; Roberts 1987). The settlement landscape of Segou (c.1…
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…
Cane River
The overseas dispersal and subsequent history of people of African descent – the African diaspora – has attracted much interest in recent decades from anthropologists, archaeologists and historians, particularly in the USA. But such studies have seldom been undertaken by archaeologists with experience of West Africa and its material culture. In a new project on the African heritage in colonial Louisiana, members of the Institute are collaborating…
The least of their inhabited villages are fortified
The penetration of Sahelian West Africa by Europeans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries revealed landscapes dotted with fortified settlements of every size and shape; none more so than that of Segou, the pre-eminent Mande polity of the era. This is not surprising given the insecurity which reigned at that time, with interminable warfare or raiding linked to the capture of slaves, whether for the state itself, or for the brokers of the Tra…
African earthen structures in colonial Louisiana
Coincoin, probably of Kongo parentage, was born a slave, became the concubine of a French planter, Pierre Metoyer, bore him ten children, and in 1787 was settled by him on a plantation of her own. Locating and excavating her house, the authors discovered it to be a type of clay-wall building known from West Africa. The house, together with an adjacent clay boundary wall, was probably built by slaves of Bight of Biafra origin loaned from the neigh…
Slavery in Africa
The role and consequences of slavery in the history of Africa have been brought to the fore recently in historical, anthropological, and archaeological research. Public remembrances — such as Abolition 2007 in Great Britain, which marked the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act and which this book also commemorates — have also stimulated considerable interest. There is a growing realisation that enslavement, whether as part of a sl…
Slavery in Africa
Discussing ceramics in the African Atlantic
The impressive array of papers pulled together by Liza Gijanto and Akin Ogundiran to form the present issue of Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa engage forcibly with key issues evolving on both sides of the Atlantic. There is much ‘grist for the mill’ here for both African historical archaeology and that of the Diaspora: new ways of studying social practice and ruptures as well as warnings about overly simplistic cultural associations of …
Archaeology, language and the peopling of West Africa
Using language to date the origin and spread of food production, Archaeology and Language II represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the second part of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination. Archaeology and historical linguistics have largely pursued separate tracks until recently, although their goals can be ve…
Dhar Néma
Dhar Néma, easternmost of the Tichitt escarpment chain, was neglected by archaeologists throughout the twentieth century. However, since 2000, two separate archaeological teams have conducted survey and test excavation work in the region. This article presents the final research results of one of these teams. Two sites in particular are closely examined: the settlement mound of Djiganyai with stratified intermittent occupation between c. 2000 and…
African Re-Genesis
Dhar Néma
Dhar Néma, easternmost of the Tichitt escarpment chain, was neglected by archaeologists throughout the twentieth century. However, since 2000, two separate archaeological teams have conducted survey and test excavation work in the region. This article presents the final research results of one of these teams. Two sites in particular are closely examined: the settlement mound of Djiganyai with stratified intermittent occupation between c. 2000 and…
Ancient DNA analysis of 101 cattle remains
The domestic chicken (Gallus gallus) in sub-Saharan Africa
Korounkorokalé revisited
The Dia archaeological project
Mali is a country with a rich history and diverse cultures. Its cultural heritage is, however, threatened by both the pillage of archaeological sites and illicit trade (ICOM 1995; Bedaux & Rowlands, this volunle). Looting has dramatically increased in recent years, especially in the Inland Delta of the Niger, and has obliged Malian authorities to take measures to counteract this destruction. Within the framework of a long-term Malian-Dutch cultur…
African Re-Genesis
Ripped from motherland and family, ethnically mixed to quell the potential of uprisings, and brutalized by regimes of hard labor, the heart - the spirit - of Africa did not stop beating in the New World. Rather, it survived and has re-emerged; changed by contacts with new cultures and environments, but still part of the continuum of African tradition: an African Re-Genesis. This is the first volume in its field to emphasize the interdisciplinary …
A reconsideration of the West African macrolithic conundrum
On the Margins of Ghana and Kawkaw
This article summarises the results of four seasons of excavation at Tongo Maaré Diabal ( AD 500-1150), near Douentza, Mali. Deep stratigraphic excavations were directed by MacDonald and Togola in 1993, 1995 and by MacDonald in 1996. Complementary, large exposure excavations of the abandonment layer were undertaken by Gestrich in 2010. The combined excavation results speak to topics of craft specialisation, trade, and social organisation. They pr…
Nitrogen isotope values of Pennisetum glaucum (pearl millet) grains
The least of their inhabited villages are fortified
The penetration of Sahelian West Africa by Europeans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries revealed landscapes dotted with fortified settlements of every size and shape; none more so than that of Segou, the pre-eminent Mande polity of the era. This is not surprising given the insecurity which reigned at that time, with interminable warfare or raiding linked to the capture of slaves, whether for the state itself, or for the brokers of the Tra…
New findings on the significance of Jebel Moya in the eastern Sahel
This paper presents new excavation data and new radiometric dates for Jebel Moya, south-central Sudan. These data suggest revisions to previous chronological understandings of the site. New excavations, initiated in 2017, show a longer, more continuous occupation of the site than has been previously recognised. Archaeozoological and archaeobotanical analyses provide evidence for domesticated taxa. Archaeobotanical evidence is dominated by domesti…
Prehistory as Propaganda
More forgotten tells of Mali
Th e use of th e word "tell" to describe a settlem ent mound is so intim ately associated with western Asia th at its transfer to West Africa may seem in appropriate
Chickens in Africa
An articulated hen's skeleton, set under the doorway of a building at the celebrated desiccated site of Qasr Ibrim in Egyptian Nubia, is cause to look again at the flight of chickens into Africa
Out of Africa and out of context
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Sponge Spicules in Pottery
Until recently, the presence of sponge spicules in ancient ceramics has only been reported from South America. Current technological studies of Neolithic pottery from Sudan and Iron Age pottery from Mali provide evidence that sponge spicules are also a distinctive inclusion of some African ceramics. In this study, new data concerning the presence and quantitative variability of sponge spicules in West African Iron Age pottery from sites along the…
African earthen structures in colonial Louisiana
Coincoin, probably of Kongo parentage, was born a slave, became the concubine of a French planter, Pierre Metoyer, bore him ten children, and in 1787 was settled by him on a plantation of her own. Locating and excavating her house, the authors discovered it to be a type of clay-wall building known from West Africa. The house, together with an adjacent clay boundary wall, was probably built by slaves of Bight of Biafra origin loaned from the neigh…
Discussing ceramics in the African Atlantic
The impressive array of papers pulled together by Liza Gijanto and Akin Ogundiran to form the present issue of Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa engage forcibly with key issues evolving on both sides of the Atlantic. There is much ‘grist for the mill’ here for both African historical archaeology and that of the Diaspora: new ways of studying social practice and ruptures as well as warnings about overly simplistic cultural associations of …
Knowledge, Ethics, and Power
October 01 2020 Knowledge, Ethics, and Power: Publishing African Objects Without Clear African Provenance Lisa Homann, Lisa Homann Guest Dialogue Editor; Associate Professor, Department of Art & Art History, UNC Charlotte; UNC Editorial Board Member, African Arts Consortium Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar UCLA Editorial Board, UCLA Editorial Board Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Schola…
Sponge Spicules in Pottery
Until recently, the presence of sponge spicules in ancient ceramics has only been reported from South America. Current technological studies of Neolithic pottery from Sudan and Iron Age pottery from Mali provide evidence that sponge spicules are also a distinctive inclusion of some African ceramics. In this study, new data concerning the presence and quantitative variability of sponge spicules in West African Iron Age pottery from sites along the…
News and Short Contributions
Kathryn A. Bard, Richard L. Burger, William J. Folan, Susan Keech McIntosh, Kevin C. MacDonald, Richard Ekman, News and Short Contributions, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Winter, 1989), pp. 475-496
The domestic chicken (Gallus gallus) in sub-Saharan Africa
Chickens in Africa
An articulated hen's skeleton, set under the doorway of a building at the celebrated desiccated site of Qasr Ibrim in Egyptian Nubia, is cause to look again at the flight of chickens into Africa
A reconsideration of the West African macrolithic conundrum
Why Chickens? The Centrality of the Domestic Fowl in West African Ritual and Magic
Douglas J. Brewer, Donald B. Redford & Susan Redford. Domestic plants and animals
Douglas J. Brewer, Donald B. Redford & Susan Redford. Domestic plants and animals: the Egyptian origins. viii + 149 pages, 94 illustrations, 6 tables. 1994. Warminster: Aris & Phillips; 0-85668-584-4 hardback £40 & 59.95. - Volume 69 Issue 264
Prehistory as Propaganda
Prehistory as Propaganda
Out of Africa and out of context
An abstract 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
More forgotten tells of Mali
More forgotten tells of Mali
Th e use of th e word "tell" to describe a settlem ent mound is so intim ately associated with western Asia th at its transfer to West Africa may seem in appropriate
Korounkorokalé revisited
The Origins and Development of African Livestock
The Dia archaeological project
Mali is a country with a rich history and diverse cultures. Its cultural heritage is, however, threatened by both the pillage of archaeological sites and illicit trade (ICOM 1995; Bedaux & Rowlands, this volunle). Looting has dramatically increased in recent years, especially in the Inland Delta of the Niger, and has obliged Malian authorities to take measures to counteract this destruction. Within the framework of a long-term Malian-Dutch cultur…
The domestic chicken in the Tylos burials of Bahrain
Four out of fifteen burials from the Tylos period ( c .200 BC – AD 200), presented by Toft Jensen in this number of AAE , contained bones of the domestic chicken ( Gallus gallus ) and represent the earliest remains of that species found on the island of Bahrain
Ancient DNA analysis of 101 cattle remains
Origins and Development of African Livestock
Dr. Téréba Togola, National Director of Cultural Heritage (Mali)
Dhar Néma
Dhar Néma, easternmost of the Tichitt escarpment chain, was neglected by archaeologists throughout the twentieth century. However, since 2000, two separate archaeological teams have conducted survey and test excavation work in the region. This article presents the final research results of one of these teams. Two sites in particular are closely examined: the settlement mound of Djiganyai with stratified intermittent occupation between c. 2000 and…
Archaeology, language and the peopling of West Africa
Using language to date the origin and spread of food production, Archaeology and Language II represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the second part of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination. Archaeology and historical linguistics have largely pursued separate tracks until recently, although their goals can be ve…
Slavery in Africa
The role and consequences of slavery in the history of Africa have been brought to the fore recently in historical, anthropological, and archaeological research. Public remembrances — such as Abolition 2007 in Great Britain, which marked the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act and which this book also commemorates — have also stimulated considerable interest. There is a growing realisation that enslavement, whether as part of a sl…
Slavery in Africa
Discussing ceramics in the African Atlantic
The impressive array of papers pulled together by Liza Gijanto and Akin Ogundiran to form the present issue of Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa engage forcibly with key issues evolving on both sides of the Atlantic. There is much ‘grist for the mill’ here for both African historical archaeology and that of the Diaspora: new ways of studying social practice and ruptures as well as warnings about overly simplistic cultural associations of …
Segou, Slavery, and Sifinso
© Cambridge University Press 2012. INTRODUCTION Slavery formed a fundamental element in the economic production systems of many historic African states. Such economies, which include documented West African cases, such as the Sokoto Caliphate, Songhai, and Segou, appear to have relied upon an enslaved workforce, derived from warfare, for agricultural production (Lovejoy 2005; Meillassoux 1991; Roberts 1987). The settlement landscape of Segou (c.1…
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