The Eastern Periphery of the Yoruba Cultural Sphere
Ceramics from the Lowland Rain Forests of Southwestern Cameroon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2219265 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Mercader (0000-0002-5637-7937), Raquel Marti, Raquel Martı́, J Wilkins (0000-0003-2586-107X), Kent D Fowler (0000-0002-8181-7885) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 173-184 |
| Publication date | 2006-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/499551 |
| OpenAlex | W2915618216 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 27 |
Numerous societies throughout subSaharan Africa supported strong political systems prior to European colonization. Seldom, however, are the boundaries of large, dominant polities sharply delineated, making it difficult to identify the extent of their influence on neighbouring, peripheral communities. In this report, we present ceramic evidence from the lowland rain forest of southwest Cameroon suggesting macroregional interactions that, during the last millennium, connected later Iron Age polities of Central Africa with Nigeria and Burkina Faso, West Africa. We propose that these rainforest communities were engaging in longdistance regional interaction networks with societies much farther west than previously expected and thus formed the eastern periphery of the Yoruba culture sphere
Archaeology · Colonization · Economic geography · Ethnology · Geography · Political science · Politics · Rainforest · Yoruba · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies · Ecology · History
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Technology and Style
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,41 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2018 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |