Nikolas Gestrich
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4065369 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nikolas Gestrich |
| PRENOMES | Nikolas |
| SOBRENOME | Gestrich |
| ASSINATURA | GESTRICH N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Frobenius-Institut |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6376-1972 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Results of Preparatory Surveys on the Tagant Escarpment, Mauritania
This article reports on a short survey carried out on the Tagant escarpment in southeastern Mauritania. This area has a great number of stone-built settlement and funerary sites and an unknown number of sites without stone architecture. The sites show continuity with the well-known neighbouring Tichitt complex of the Ceramic Late Stone Age. However, the Tagant escarpment has so far only been subject to one programme of fieldwork in the late 1980s…
Pottery décor as networks on the Middle Niger, Mali
This paper reports on an attempt to analyse decorative techniques on archaeological pottery from the Middle Niger region of West Africa as knowledge exchange networks. The twelfth-century AD state of this network is modelled and analysed and then compared to its ninth-century counterpart. The analysis shows how knowledge about pottery decoration was propagated within networks of different sizes and intensities, from local, well-connected networks…
The Tichitt Culture and the Malian Lakes Region
The Tichitt culture of the Ceramic Late Stone Age is known for its large settlement sites, built from dry stone walls. It is centered on the cliffs of southeastern Mauritania, but its links to the Middle Niger and the later urban developments there have long been a topic of research. This article adds a further piece of evidence linking the two regions. The available evidence for a set of stone-walled features is presented, around 300 sites of va…
Pearl millet and iron in the West African Sahel
Recent archaeobotanical analysis revealed that the botanical remains from the site of Tongo Maaré Diabal (Mali) are composed primarily of pearl millet remains (up to 85%). Contemporaneous West African sites (500–1200 Cal AD) usually display more diverse patterns, especially by the end of this period. Indeed, contemporary urban sites of the West African Sahel often comprise combined and diversified farming systems of millet (Pennisetum glaucum), A…
Evidence of an Eleventh-Century AD Cola Nitida Trade into the Middle Niger Region
Kola nut ( Cola cf. nitida ) and Safou fruit ( Dacryodes edulis ) remains have been discovered in eleventh- to fourteenth-century archaeological contexts at Togu Missiri near Ségou in Mali. These remains are evidence of early trade in perishable foodstuffs from the West African forest zone into the Middle Niger region. On the basis of these finds, this paper argues that long-distance trade links were well established by the end of the first mille…
Nitrogen isotope values of Pennisetum glaucum (pearl millet) grains
The Empire of Ghana
The Empire of Ghana is one of the earliest known political formations in West Africa. Within the context of a growing trans-Saharan trade, Arabic sources begin to mention “Ghāna,” the name of a ruler as well as of the city or country he ruled, in the 9th century. Repeatedly named in connection with fabulous riches in gold, Ghāna had acquired a preeminent role in the western Sahel and was a leader among a large group of smaller polities. Ghāna’s i…
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…
Excavations at Kranka Dada
The Archaeology of Social Organisation at Tongo Maaré Diabal
Since the 1970s, research on the first millennium AD in the Middle Niger has shed light on a fascinating episode of the world's history. Written records and oral histories hint at the existence of large polities and great wealth, while archaeological research has documented the development of urbanism and long-distance trade networks, and attempted to locate legendary capitals and trace migrations. In contrast, we know very little about the life …
Sorotomo
Sorotomo is one of Mali's largest tell sites and is connected by varied sources to the Empire (AD c.1235–1450). Unlike the majority of urban sites thus far investigated along the Middle Niger, it is associated by oral traditions with political power and military might, rather than with commercial networks. In 2006 and 2009/10 the authors conducted initial excavations at Sorotomo providing a dated occupational sequence and other evidence which hav…
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
Sorotomo
Sorotomo is one of Mali's largest tell sites and is connected by varied sources to the Empire (AD c.1235–1450). Unlike the majority of urban sites thus far investigated along the Middle Niger, it is associated by oral traditions with political power and military might, rather than with commercial networks. In 2006 and 2009/10 the authors conducted initial excavations at Sorotomo providing a dated occupational sequence and other evidence which hav…
The Archaeology of Social Organisation at Tongo Maaré Diabal
Since the 1970s, research on the first millennium AD in the Middle Niger has shed light on a fascinating episode of the world's history. Written records and oral histories hint at the existence of large polities and great wealth, while archaeological research has documented the development of urbanism and long-distance trade networks, and attempted to locate legendary capitals and trace migrations. In contrast, we know very little about the life …
The Tichitt Culture and the Malian Lakes Region
The Tichitt culture of the Ceramic Late Stone Age is known for its large settlement sites, built from dry stone walls. It is centered on the cliffs of southeastern Mauritania, but its links to the Middle Niger and the later urban developments there have long been a topic of research. This article adds a further piece of evidence linking the two regions. The available evidence for a set of stone-walled features is presented, around 300 sites of va…
Evidence of an Eleventh-Century AD Cola Nitida Trade into the Middle Niger Region
Kola nut ( Cola cf. nitida ) and Safou fruit ( Dacryodes edulis ) remains have been discovered in eleventh- to fourteenth-century archaeological contexts at Togu Missiri near Ségou in Mali. These remains are evidence of early trade in perishable foodstuffs from the West African forest zone into the Middle Niger region. On the basis of these finds, this paper argues that long-distance trade links were well established by the end of the first mille…
The Empire of Ghana
The Empire of Ghana is one of the earliest known political formations in West Africa. Within the context of a growing trans-Saharan trade, Arabic sources begin to mention “Ghāna,” the name of a ruler as well as of the city or country he ruled, in the 9th century. Repeatedly named in connection with fabulous riches in gold, Ghāna had acquired a preeminent role in the western Sahel and was a leader among a large group of smaller polities. Ghāna’s i…
Pottery décor as networks on the Middle Niger, Mali
This paper reports on an attempt to analyse decorative techniques on archaeological pottery from the Middle Niger region of West Africa as knowledge exchange networks. The twelfth-century AD state of this network is modelled and analysed and then compared to its ninth-century counterpart. The analysis shows how knowledge about pottery decoration was propagated within networks of different sizes and intensities, from local, well-connected networks…
Pearl millet and iron in the West African Sahel
Recent archaeobotanical analysis revealed that the botanical remains from the site of Tongo Maaré Diabal (Mali) are composed primarily of pearl millet remains (up to 85%). Contemporaneous West African sites (500–1200 Cal AD) usually display more diverse patterns, especially by the end of this period. Indeed, contemporary urban sites of the West African Sahel often comprise combined and diversified farming systems of millet (Pennisetum glaucum), A…
Sorotomo
Sorotomo is one of Mali's largest tell sites and is connected by varied sources to the Empire (AD c.1235–1450). Unlike the majority of urban sites thus far investigated along the Middle Niger, it is associated by oral traditions with political power and military might, rather than with commercial networks. In 2006 and 2009/10 the authors conducted initial excavations at Sorotomo providing a dated occupational sequence and other evidence which hav…
The Archaeology of Social Organisation at Tongo Maaré Diabal
Since the 1970s, research on the first millennium AD in the Middle Niger has shed light on a fascinating episode of the world's history. Written records and oral histories hint at the existence of large polities and great wealth, while archaeological research has documented the development of urbanism and long-distance trade networks, and attempted to locate legendary capitals and trace migrations. In contrast, we know very little about the life …
Excavations at Kranka Dada
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…
Nitrogen isotope values of Pennisetum glaucum (pearl millet) grains
The Empire of Ghana
The Empire of Ghana is one of the earliest known political formations in West Africa. Within the context of a growing trans-Saharan trade, Arabic sources begin to mention “Ghāna,” the name of a ruler as well as of the city or country he ruled, in the 9th century. Repeatedly named in connection with fabulous riches in gold, Ghāna had acquired a preeminent role in the western Sahel and was a leader among a large group of smaller polities. Ghāna’s i…
Pearl millet and iron in the West African Sahel
Recent archaeobotanical analysis revealed that the botanical remains from the site of Tongo Maaré Diabal (Mali) are composed primarily of pearl millet remains (up to 85%). Contemporaneous West African sites (500–1200 Cal AD) usually display more diverse patterns, especially by the end of this period. Indeed, contemporary urban sites of the West African Sahel often comprise combined and diversified farming systems of millet (Pennisetum glaucum), A…
Evidence of an Eleventh-Century AD Cola Nitida Trade into the Middle Niger Region
Kola nut ( Cola cf. nitida ) and Safou fruit ( Dacryodes edulis ) remains have been discovered in eleventh- to fourteenth-century archaeological contexts at Togu Missiri near Ségou in Mali. These remains are evidence of early trade in perishable foodstuffs from the West African forest zone into the Middle Niger region. On the basis of these finds, this paper argues that long-distance trade links were well established by the end of the first mille…
The Tichitt Culture and the Malian Lakes Region
The Tichitt culture of the Ceramic Late Stone Age is known for its large settlement sites, built from dry stone walls. It is centered on the cliffs of southeastern Mauritania, but its links to the Middle Niger and the later urban developments there have long been a topic of research. This article adds a further piece of evidence linking the two regions. The available evidence for a set of stone-walled features is presented, around 300 sites of va…
Pottery décor as networks on the Middle Niger, Mali
This paper reports on an attempt to analyse decorative techniques on archaeological pottery from the Middle Niger region of West Africa as knowledge exchange networks. The twelfth-century AD state of this network is modelled and analysed and then compared to its ninth-century counterpart. The analysis shows how knowledge about pottery decoration was propagated within networks of different sizes and intensities, from local, well-connected networks…
Results of Preparatory Surveys on the Tagant Escarpment, Mauritania
This article reports on a short survey carried out on the Tagant escarpment in southeastern Mauritania. This area has a great number of stone-built settlement and funerary sites and an unknown number of sites without stone architecture. The sites show continuity with the well-known neighbouring Tichitt complex of the Ceramic Late Stone Age. However, the Tagant escarpment has so far only been subject to one programme of fieldwork in the late 1980s…
Archaeology (9 obras) · Geography (9 obras) · African Studies and Geopolitics (8 obras) · African Studies and Ethnography (7 obras) · History (7 obras) · Ancient history (6 obras) · Excavation (4 obras) · History (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · African Botany and Ecology Studies (3 obras)