Carlos Magnavita
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4064997 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Carlos Magnavita |
| PRENOMES | Carlos |
| SOBRENOME | Magnavita |
| ASSINATURA | MAGNAVITA C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3968-1953 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
New Luminescence and Radiocarbon Dates for Kanem-Borno Fired-Brick Elite Sites in Kanem, Chad
Five fired-brick sites, tentatively attributed to the Kanem-Borno State, were test-excavated, and samples of fired bricks and wood charcoal were dated using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). Although OSL yielded larger standard deviations compared to radiocarbon dating, both methods produced chronologically significant results. In addition to confirming that the sites were constructed during Kanem-Bo…
LA‐ICP‐MS analysis of glass beads from Tié (12th–14th centuries), Kanem, Chad
Chemical analysis of glass from African archaeological sites has become a standard research tool over the past decades. Despite the multiplication of studies, the continent still exhibits vast unexplored regions. One of these is the surroundings of Lake Chad. This paper discusses the results of LA‐ICP‐MS analysis of recently excavated glass beads from the late medieval Chadian site of Tié. We demonstrate that the composition of those glass beads …
Jacques Aymeric Nsangou
A Unique Twelfth- to Fourteenth-Century AD Iron Nail Assemblage from Kanem, Chad
Iron nails are still a poorly researched group of African archaeological artefacts. Probably because of preservation issues and their ordinary nature, archaeologists have in general not dealt analytically with such objects. A brief survey of the published evidence shows that, compared to North Africa and the Middle Nile Valley, iron nails are late occurrences in sites south of the Sahara, dating to the late first and the second millennia AD . Thi…
Graham Connah
Early Kanem-Borno fired brick élite locations in Kanem, Chad
One of the most intriguing problems concerning the Kanem-Borno sultanate of the central Sahel between the eighth and nineteenth centuries AD concerns its early intra-African connections. Apart from historically documented linkages with North and parts of West Africa, were there trade and other contacts with eastern regions such as Darfur, the Middle Nile Valley and areas beyond prior to the fifteenth century? Addressing the results of recent arch…
Recherches archéologiques à Tié (Kanem, Tchad)
Contrairement aux recherches sur son histoire, les recherches archéologiques dans la région tchadienne du Kanem n’ont commencé que très récemment. À l’heure actuelle, les vestiges matériels les plus remarquables sont les ruines de sites en briques cuites destinés aux élites, dont certains sont manifestement associés au sultanat du Kanem-Borno et sont datés de la période du xie au xive siècle de notre ère. Parmi ceux-ci, le lieu nommé Tié se disti…
Archaeological research at Tié (Kanem, Chad)
Contrairement aux recherches sur son histoire, les recherches archéologiques dans la région tchadienne du Kanem n’ont commencé que très récemment. À l’heure actuelle, les vestiges matériels les plus remarquables sont les ruines de sites en briques cuites destinés aux élites, dont certains sont manifestement associés au sultanat du Kanem-Borno et sont datés de la période du xie au xive siècle de notre ère. Parmi ceux-ci, le lieu nommé Tié se disti…
The Lake Chad region as a crossroads
L’histoire de la région du lac Tchad est intrinsèquement liée à celle de l’empire Kanem-Borno (viiie-xixe siècle après J.-C.), l’État le plus ancien, le plus durable et le plus puissant du Soudan central. Cette réussite politique résultait en grande partie des relations économiques et culturelles que l’État avait naguère établies avec des régions africaines plus ou moins éloignées. Si les historiens sont conscients des liens très lointains que Ka…
All that Glitters is Not Gold
First Trial Geophysical Surveys at Kintampo Open-Air Sites
Within the scope of a short-term pilot study, the authors conducted trial geophysical surveys at two sites of the late Holocene food-producing Kintampo Complex (ca. 2100-1400 BC ) in northern Ghana. Overall goal of research was an evaluation of the potential of employing geophysical prospecting to map the subsurface extent of Kintampo open-air settlements. From an archaeological viewpoint, the results of the surveys were satisfactory but not outs…
Garumele Revisited
Contributions of archaeological geophysics to field research in Sub-Saharan Africa
Compared to other world regions, the employment of archaeological geophysics in Sub-Saharan Africa has been particularly modest. By reviewing the few published case studies from the last fifty years, this paper emphasises the contributions of geophysical surveying to field research so far, while also addressing major changes in its practice through time. It is argued that geophysical methods are essential tools for enhancing archaeological visibi…
The settlement mound of Birnin Lafiya
The Archaeology of Fazzān
The Archaeology of Fazzān: Volume 3, Excavation of C.M. Daniels by David J. Mattingly (ed.), London, The Society for Libyan Studies, and Tripoli, Department of Antiquities, 2010, xxvi + 574 pp., £6
Garu Kime
Zilum
In the last few years, archaeological investigations carried out at the mid-first millennium BC settlement site of Zilum, Nigeria, have integrated magnetic survey, a geophysical technique, as an additional source of information. Amongst other results, the magnetic survey revealed the presence of an archaeological feature that encloses the entire settlement area. Excavations show that this feature consists of a ditch. Dimensions and shape suggest …
Ancient Humped Cattle in Africa
A Look Into the Earth
In the last decades, geophysical methods such as magnetic survey have become a common technique for prospecting archaeological sites. At sub-Saharan archaeological sites, however, magnetic survey and correlated techniques never came into broad use and there are no signs for an immediate change of this situation. This paper examines the magnetic survey undertaken on the Nigerian site of Zilum, a settlement of the Gajiganna Culture (ca 1800-400 BC)…
Imperial Expansion, Ethnic Change, and Ceramic Traditions in The Southern Chad Basin
Imperial Expansion, Ethnic Change, and Ceramic Traditions in The Southern Chad Basin
Zilum
In the last few years, archaeological investigations carried out at the mid-first millennium BC settlement site of Zilum, Nigeria, have integrated magnetic survey, a geophysical technique, as an additional source of information. Amongst other results, the magnetic survey revealed the presence of an archaeological feature that encloses the entire settlement area. Excavations show that this feature consists of a ditch. Dimensions and shape suggest …
Contributions of archaeological geophysics to field research in Sub-Saharan Africa
Compared to other world regions, the employment of archaeological geophysics in Sub-Saharan Africa has been particularly modest. By reviewing the few published case studies from the last fifty years, this paper emphasises the contributions of geophysical surveying to field research so far, while also addressing major changes in its practice through time. It is argued that geophysical methods are essential tools for enhancing archaeological visibi…
The settlement mound of Birnin Lafiya
A Look Into the Earth
In the last decades, geophysical methods such as magnetic survey have become a common technique for prospecting archaeological sites. At sub-Saharan archaeological sites, however, magnetic survey and correlated techniques never came into broad use and there are no signs for an immediate change of this situation. This paper examines the magnetic survey undertaken on the Nigerian site of Zilum, a settlement of the Gajiganna Culture (ca 1800-400 BC)…
The Lake Chad region as a crossroads
L’histoire de la région du lac Tchad est intrinsèquement liée à celle de l’empire Kanem-Borno (viiie-xixe siècle après J.-C.), l’État le plus ancien, le plus durable et le plus puissant du Soudan central. Cette réussite politique résultait en grande partie des relations économiques et culturelles que l’État avait naguère établies avec des régions africaines plus ou moins éloignées. Si les historiens sont conscients des liens très lointains que Ka…
Garu Kime
Ancient Humped Cattle in Africa
Early Kanem-Borno fired brick élite locations in Kanem, Chad
One of the most intriguing problems concerning the Kanem-Borno sultanate of the central Sahel between the eighth and nineteenth centuries AD concerns its early intra-African connections. Apart from historically documented linkages with North and parts of West Africa, were there trade and other contacts with eastern regions such as Darfur, the Middle Nile Valley and areas beyond prior to the fifteenth century? Addressing the results of recent arch…
Archaeological research at Tié (Kanem, Chad)
Contrairement aux recherches sur son histoire, les recherches archéologiques dans la région tchadienne du Kanem n’ont commencé que très récemment. À l’heure actuelle, les vestiges matériels les plus remarquables sont les ruines de sites en briques cuites destinés aux élites, dont certains sont manifestement associés au sultanat du Kanem-Borno et sont datés de la période du xie au xive siècle de notre ère. Parmi ceux-ci, le lieu nommé Tié se disti…
Garumele Revisited
Imperial Expansion, Ethnic Change, and Ceramic Traditions in The Southern Chad Basin
A Look Into the Earth
In the last decades, geophysical methods such as magnetic survey have become a common technique for prospecting archaeological sites. At sub-Saharan archaeological sites, however, magnetic survey and correlated techniques never came into broad use and there are no signs for an immediate change of this situation. This paper examines the magnetic survey undertaken on the Nigerian site of Zilum, a settlement of the Gajiganna Culture (ca 1800-400 BC)…
Zilum
In the last few years, archaeological investigations carried out at the mid-first millennium BC settlement site of Zilum, Nigeria, have integrated magnetic survey, a geophysical technique, as an additional source of information. Amongst other results, the magnetic survey revealed the presence of an archaeological feature that encloses the entire settlement area. Excavations show that this feature consists of a ditch. Dimensions and shape suggest …
Ancient Humped Cattle in Africa
Garu Kime
The Archaeology of Fazzān
The Archaeology of Fazzān: Volume 3, Excavation of C.M. Daniels by David J. Mattingly (ed.), London, The Society for Libyan Studies, and Tripoli, Department of Antiquities, 2010, xxvi + 574 pp., £6
Contributions of archaeological geophysics to field research in Sub-Saharan Africa
Compared to other world regions, the employment of archaeological geophysics in Sub-Saharan Africa has been particularly modest. By reviewing the few published case studies from the last fifty years, this paper emphasises the contributions of geophysical surveying to field research so far, while also addressing major changes in its practice through time. It is argued that geophysical methods are essential tools for enhancing archaeological visibi…
The settlement mound of Birnin Lafiya
Garumele Revisited
All that Glitters is Not Gold
First Trial Geophysical Surveys at Kintampo Open-Air Sites
Within the scope of a short-term pilot study, the authors conducted trial geophysical surveys at two sites of the late Holocene food-producing Kintampo Complex (ca. 2100-1400 BC ) in northern Ghana. Overall goal of research was an evaluation of the potential of employing geophysical prospecting to map the subsurface extent of Kintampo open-air settlements. From an archaeological viewpoint, the results of the surveys were satisfactory but not outs…
The Lake Chad region as a crossroads
L’histoire de la région du lac Tchad est intrinsèquement liée à celle de l’empire Kanem-Borno (viiie-xixe siècle après J.-C.), l’État le plus ancien, le plus durable et le plus puissant du Soudan central. Cette réussite politique résultait en grande partie des relations économiques et culturelles que l’État avait naguère établies avec des régions africaines plus ou moins éloignées. Si les historiens sont conscients des liens très lointains que Ka…
Recherches archéologiques à Tié (Kanem, Tchad)
Contrairement aux recherches sur son histoire, les recherches archéologiques dans la région tchadienne du Kanem n’ont commencé que très récemment. À l’heure actuelle, les vestiges matériels les plus remarquables sont les ruines de sites en briques cuites destinés aux élites, dont certains sont manifestement associés au sultanat du Kanem-Borno et sont datés de la période du xie au xive siècle de notre ère. Parmi ceux-ci, le lieu nommé Tié se disti…
Archaeological research at Tié (Kanem, Chad)
Contrairement aux recherches sur son histoire, les recherches archéologiques dans la région tchadienne du Kanem n’ont commencé que très récemment. À l’heure actuelle, les vestiges matériels les plus remarquables sont les ruines de sites en briques cuites destinés aux élites, dont certains sont manifestement associés au sultanat du Kanem-Borno et sont datés de la période du xie au xive siècle de notre ère. Parmi ceux-ci, le lieu nommé Tié se disti…
Graham Connah
Early Kanem-Borno fired brick élite locations in Kanem, Chad
One of the most intriguing problems concerning the Kanem-Borno sultanate of the central Sahel between the eighth and nineteenth centuries AD concerns its early intra-African connections. Apart from historically documented linkages with North and parts of West Africa, were there trade and other contacts with eastern regions such as Darfur, the Middle Nile Valley and areas beyond prior to the fifteenth century? Addressing the results of recent arch…
Jacques Aymeric Nsangou
A Unique Twelfth- to Fourteenth-Century AD Iron Nail Assemblage from Kanem, Chad
Iron nails are still a poorly researched group of African archaeological artefacts. Probably because of preservation issues and their ordinary nature, archaeologists have in general not dealt analytically with such objects. A brief survey of the published evidence shows that, compared to North Africa and the Middle Nile Valley, iron nails are late occurrences in sites south of the Sahara, dating to the late first and the second millennia AD . Thi…
LA‐ICP‐MS analysis of glass beads from Tié (12th–14th centuries), Kanem, Chad
Chemical analysis of glass from African archaeological sites has become a standard research tool over the past decades. Despite the multiplication of studies, the continent still exhibits vast unexplored regions. One of these is the surroundings of Lake Chad. This paper discusses the results of LA‐ICP‐MS analysis of recently excavated glass beads from the late medieval Chadian site of Tié. We demonstrate that the composition of those glass beads …
New Luminescence and Radiocarbon Dates for Kanem-Borno Fired-Brick Elite Sites in Kanem, Chad
Five fired-brick sites, tentatively attributed to the Kanem-Borno State, were test-excavated, and samples of fired bricks and wood charcoal were dated using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). Although OSL yielded larger standard deviations compared to radiocarbon dating, both methods produced chronologically significant results. In addition to confirming that the sites were constructed during Kanem-Bo…
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