Durbi Takusheyi

A high-status burial site in the western Centralbilād al-sūdān

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6041928
AutoresD Gronenborn (0000-0002-6467-5643, LEIZA - Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie, autor correspondente), Paul Adderley (University of Stirling), James Ameje, Arun Banerjee, Arun K Banerjee (0000-0002-9595-1049, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz), Thomas Fenn, Thomas R Fenn (0000-0001-8560-6797, KU Leuven), Gerhard Liesegang, Claus-Peter Haase, Yusuf Abdallah Usman, Stephan Patscher (University of the Witwatersrand)
Ano2012
Volume47
Fascículo3
Páginas256-271
Data de publicação2012-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAzania Archaeological Research in Africa (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0067-270X • E-ISSN: 1945-5534
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0067270x.2012.707470
OpenAlexW2093745116
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas22

Durbi Takusheyi is a burial site composed of at least eight mounds located between the modern towns of Katsina and Daura in northern Nigeria. Parts of the mounds were first excavated in 1907 by Herbert Richmond Palmer in cooperation with the Emir of Katsina and later again in 1992 in the course of a German research project under the lead of Dierk Lange, Bayreuth. After the 1992 excavation, the retained blocks were stored in the Jos Museum, Nigeria, for further analyses. In 2007 the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM) and the National Commission for Museums and Monuments in Nigeria (NCMM) started a project with the objective of completely restoring and analyzing the excavated artefacts. While the remains of the first excavation appear to be lost with only minimal information preserved, the three mounds excavated in 1992 each contained a single interment in the centre of the mound, all three with various burial goods produced from inorganic (metal, glass, stone, cowries) and organic material (cloth, wood, hides). Many artefacts are of regional provenance but some were also imported from distant regions of the Islamic world. Following the currently available radiocarbon measurements, one group of the burials would date to the earlier fourteenth century AD, and judging from typology and art history another burial dates to the later fifteenth/early sixteenth centuries. The site thus covers a crucial phase in history during which the Hausa city states emerged, indicating shifting contacts to the Mediterranean and to the Middle East

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