Daphne Gallagher
Biographic Data
| ID | 4009970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daphne Gallagher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daphne |
| FAMILY NAME | Gallagher |
| SIGNATURE | GALLAGHER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Creation by fire: Ritual burning and ancestor shrines in West Africa
Fire-hardened walls, burned floors and completely burned structures are common features of archaeological sites in central West Africa, often forming distinct strata in sites that developed into large mounds, or tells. Despite their ubiquity, the presence of burning on architectural remnants plays a very minor role in archaeological interpretations. We suggest that burned features are frequently the result of different forms of sacrificial burnin…
Collectivism and new identities after the Black Death Pandemic: Merchant diasporas and incorporative local communities in West Africa
Networked Farmers, Ancestral Rituals, Regional Marketplaces, and Salt: New Insights into the Complexity of First Millennium BC/AD Farming Societies in West Africa
Understanding Archaeological Tells: Circulating Memories and Engaging with Ancestors through Material Attachments
Tell sites are central to archaeological interpretation in many world regions due to their lengthy sequences of stratified deposits. However, the cultural choices that create architectural remnants and associated materials are more poorly understood, as are the ways that previous layers situate the living community above. This article calls for agentive understandings of tell-formation processes through examination of archaeological sites in Burk…
Introduction to the special section: Histories of Global Health in Africa
Alcohol, ancestors, and the house: Exploring ritual use of beer at Kirikongo, Burkina Faso
Recognizing plague epidemics in the archaeological record of West Africa
Many archaeological sites in the central West African savanna were either abandoned or reduced in size between the 14th and 15th centuries CE. Explanations have tended to invoke the effects of climate change (increasing aridity), political transformations, and religious conversion. However, more recently scholars have increasingly suggested that this regional pattern could be in part the result of plague epidemics. In this paper we explore the me…
Swahili Urbanisation, Trade, and Food Production: Botanical Perspectives from Pemba Island, Tanzania, AD 600–1500
While archaeological research on the Swahili has often focused on trade and craft-related aspects of the economy, investigation of their agricultural base is equally critical to understanding these
The Archaeology of Shea Butter ( Vitellaria paradoxa ) in Burkina Faso, West Africa
Shea butter, a vegetal fat derived from the nuts of the shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa), is a critical component of the diet for societies in the savanna belt of West Africa. This paper presents the results of an analysis of the longest continuous single site sequence of shea butter production and use yet known, spanning ca. 100–1500 CE, at the well-preserved archaeological site of Kirikongo, located in western Burkina Faso. Drawing on the ethnog…
American plants in Sub-Saharan Africa: A review of the archaeological evidence
American plants play significant roles in Sub-Saharan African societies as foods, raw materials, medicines and ornamentals. Adopted over the past 500 years in the context of the Atlantic slave trade and European colonisation, the pathways by which these plants were culturally integrated are poorly understood. This paper reviews the current archaeological evidence for American plants in Sub-Saharan Africa and draws on botanical, material culture, …
Changing Crafts in the Spaces Between States: Formal, Functional, and Decorative Transformations in Fifteenth-Century CE Ceramics at Kirikongo, Burkina Faso (West Africa)
Adopting agriculture in the West African savanna: Exploring socio-economic choices in first millennium CE southeastern Burkina Faso
Excavations at Gao Saney: New Evidence for Settlement Growth, Trade, and Interaction on the Nige r Bend in the First Millennium CE
Along with Ghana, Gawgaw (Gao) was an important regional trading polity mentioned by Arab chroniclers in the later first millennium CE. In the later tenth century, al-Muhallabi wrote of the dual towns of Gawgaw, one the residence of the king and the other a market and trading town called Sarneh. The large settlement mound of Gao Saney, located seven kilometers east of Gao, has long been thought to be the site of Sarneh. Excavations in 2001-2 and …
Switching mortuary codes and ritual programs: The Double-Monolith-Circle from Sine-Ngayene, Senegal
This paper addresses a number of connected issues revolving around mortuary practices in the Senegambian megalithic traditions, through the lenses of the intriguing double-monolith-circle #27 of Sine-Ngayene, also known as Diallombere. Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation, the diversity of Senegambian megalithic features is still very poorly understood. Most of the cases investigated so far have been claimed to feature sing…
Tobacco Pipes From Excavations at the Museum Site, Jenne, Mali
Tobacco pipes are among the most frequently recorded artifacts from historic period sites in West Africa, and can be used to both establish tight chronologies and address issues of social and economic change.This paper is a discussion of the 300-year sequence of tobacco pipes recovered from excavations at Jenne, Mali in 1999. The assemblage, which includes over 300 fragments, is first placed in its historical and archaeological context. The pipes…
Excavations at Gao Saney: New Evidence for Settlement Growth, Trade, and Interaction on the Nige r Bend in the First Millennium CE
Along with Ghana, Gawgaw (Gao) was an important regional trading polity mentioned by Arab chroniclers in the later first millennium CE. In the later tenth century, al-Muhallabi wrote of the dual towns of Gawgaw, one the residence of the king and the other a market and trading town called Sarneh. The large settlement mound of Gao Saney, located seven kilometers east of Gao, has long been thought to be the site of Sarneh. Excavations in 2001-2 and …
Tobacco Pipes From Excavations at the Museum Site, Jenne, Mali
Tobacco pipes are among the most frequently recorded artifacts from historic period sites in West Africa, and can be used to both establish tight chronologies and address issues of social and economic change.This paper is a discussion of the 300-year sequence of tobacco pipes recovered from excavations at Jenne, Mali in 1999. The assemblage, which includes over 300 fragments, is first placed in its historical and archaeological context. The pipes…
Alcohol, ancestors, and the house: Exploring ritual use of beer at Kirikongo, Burkina Faso
Changing Crafts in the Spaces Between States: Formal, Functional, and Decorative Transformations in Fifteenth-Century CE Ceramics at Kirikongo, Burkina Faso (West Africa)
Switching mortuary codes and ritual programs: The Double-Monolith-Circle from Sine-Ngayene, Senegal
This paper addresses a number of connected issues revolving around mortuary practices in the Senegambian megalithic traditions, through the lenses of the intriguing double-monolith-circle #27 of Sine-Ngayene, also known as Diallombere. Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation, the diversity of Senegambian megalithic features is still very poorly understood. Most of the cases investigated so far have been claimed to feature sing…
Networked Farmers, Ancestral Rituals, Regional Marketplaces, and Salt: New Insights into the Complexity of First Millennium BC/AD Farming Societies in West Africa
Recognizing plague epidemics in the archaeological record of West Africa
Many archaeological sites in the central West African savanna were either abandoned or reduced in size between the 14th and 15th centuries CE. Explanations have tended to invoke the effects of climate change (increasing aridity), political transformations, and religious conversion. However, more recently scholars have increasingly suggested that this regional pattern could be in part the result of plague epidemics. In this paper we explore the me…
Collectivism and new identities after the Black Death Pandemic: Merchant diasporas and incorporative local communities in West Africa
Introduction to the special section: Histories of Global Health in Africa
Tobacco Pipes From Excavations at the Museum Site, Jenne, Mali
Tobacco pipes are among the most frequently recorded artifacts from historic period sites in West Africa, and can be used to both establish tight chronologies and address issues of social and economic change.This paper is a discussion of the 300-year sequence of tobacco pipes recovered from excavations at Jenne, Mali in 1999. The assemblage, which includes over 300 fragments, is first placed in its historical and archaeological context. The pipes…
Switching mortuary codes and ritual programs: The Double-Monolith-Circle from Sine-Ngayene, Senegal
This paper addresses a number of connected issues revolving around mortuary practices in the Senegambian megalithic traditions, through the lenses of the intriguing double-monolith-circle #27 of Sine-Ngayene, also known as Diallombere. Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation, the diversity of Senegambian megalithic features is still very poorly understood. Most of the cases investigated so far have been claimed to feature sing…
Adopting agriculture in the West African savanna: Exploring socio-economic choices in first millennium CE southeastern Burkina Faso
Excavations at Gao Saney: New Evidence for Settlement Growth, Trade, and Interaction on the Nige r Bend in the First Millennium CE
Along with Ghana, Gawgaw (Gao) was an important regional trading polity mentioned by Arab chroniclers in the later first millennium CE. In the later tenth century, al-Muhallabi wrote of the dual towns of Gawgaw, one the residence of the king and the other a market and trading town called Sarneh. The large settlement mound of Gao Saney, located seven kilometers east of Gao, has long been thought to be the site of Sarneh. Excavations in 2001-2 and …
The Archaeology of Shea Butter ( Vitellaria paradoxa ) in Burkina Faso, West Africa
Shea butter, a vegetal fat derived from the nuts of the shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa), is a critical component of the diet for societies in the savanna belt of West Africa. This paper presents the results of an analysis of the longest continuous single site sequence of shea butter production and use yet known, spanning ca. 100–1500 CE, at the well-preserved archaeological site of Kirikongo, located in western Burkina Faso. Drawing on the ethnog…
American plants in Sub-Saharan Africa: A review of the archaeological evidence
American plants play significant roles in Sub-Saharan African societies as foods, raw materials, medicines and ornamentals. Adopted over the past 500 years in the context of the Atlantic slave trade and European colonisation, the pathways by which these plants were culturally integrated are poorly understood. This paper reviews the current archaeological evidence for American plants in Sub-Saharan Africa and draws on botanical, material culture, …
Changing Crafts in the Spaces Between States: Formal, Functional, and Decorative Transformations in Fifteenth-Century CE Ceramics at Kirikongo, Burkina Faso (West Africa)
Swahili Urbanisation, Trade, and Food Production: Botanical Perspectives from Pemba Island, Tanzania, AD 600–1500
While archaeological research on the Swahili has often focused on trade and craft-related aspects of the economy, investigation of their agricultural base is equally critical to understanding these
Recognizing plague epidemics in the archaeological record of West Africa
Many archaeological sites in the central West African savanna were either abandoned or reduced in size between the 14th and 15th centuries CE. Explanations have tended to invoke the effects of climate change (increasing aridity), political transformations, and religious conversion. However, more recently scholars have increasingly suggested that this regional pattern could be in part the result of plague epidemics. In this paper we explore the me…
Alcohol, ancestors, and the house: Exploring ritual use of beer at Kirikongo, Burkina Faso
Introduction to the special section: Histories of Global Health in Africa
Networked Farmers, Ancestral Rituals, Regional Marketplaces, and Salt: New Insights into the Complexity of First Millennium BC/AD Farming Societies in West Africa
Understanding Archaeological Tells: Circulating Memories and Engaging with Ancestors through Material Attachments
Tell sites are central to archaeological interpretation in many world regions due to their lengthy sequences of stratified deposits. However, the cultural choices that create architectural remnants and associated materials are more poorly understood, as are the ways that previous layers situate the living community above. This article calls for agentive understandings of tell-formation processes through examination of archaeological sites in Burk…
Collectivism and new identities after the Black Death Pandemic: Merchant diasporas and incorporative local communities in West Africa
Creation by fire: Ritual burning and ancestor shrines in West Africa
Fire-hardened walls, burned floors and completely burned structures are common features of archaeological sites in central West Africa, often forming distinct strata in sites that developed into large mounds, or tells. Despite their ubiquity, the presence of burning on architectural remnants plays a very minor role in archaeological interpretations. We suggest that burned features are frequently the result of different forms of sacrificial burnin…
Archaeology (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · History (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (4 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Ancient history (4 works)