Excavations at Gao Saney
New Evidence for Settlement Growth, Trade, and Interaction on the Nige r Bend in the First Millennium CE
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5830657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mamadou Cisse (corresponding author), Susan Keech Mcintosh (0000-0002-2082-7721, Rice University, corresponding author), L Dussubieux (0000-0002-9334-8131, Field Museum of Natural History, corresponding author), Thomas R Fenn (0000-0001-8560-6797, University of Arizona, corresponding author), Daphne Gallagher (corresponding author), Abigail Chipps Smith (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9-37 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of African Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1612-1651 • E-ISSN: 2191-5784 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.3213/2191-5784-10233 |
| OpenAlex | W2049665389 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
| References cited | 20 |
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 2009 were the first sustained archaeological explorations of the main, 32-hectare mound, providing new information on function, subsistence economy, material culture, and chronology, and expanding considerably on earlier investigations by T. Insoll and R. Mauny. This article presents a broad overview of the recent excavations, focusing particularly on the evidence for spatial differentiation (domestic and workshop areas), chronology (both radiocarbon and ceramic) and involvement in trade networks
Chronology · Polity · Settlement (finance · Subsistence economy · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
Architecture and Settlement Growth on the Southern Edge of the Sahara
Metalworking in Pre-Islamic North Africa
The Early History of Weaving in West Africa
Technology in the Sahara and Beyond
Shattering Illusions
Long-Distance Exchange and Urban Trajectories in the First Millennium AD
The Early Islamic Trans-Saharan Market Towns of West Africa
“Bamanaya is so difficult to leave behind”
“Becoming Muslim”
Mobile Technologies in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond
Protohistoire du Mali et du Niger
Ancient History of Technology in West Africa
Recognizing plague epidemics in the archaeological record of West Africa
Layers of Lexical Borrowing in Long-Term Contact Rooted among Ancient Crops from Mali’s Bandiagara Region
A Unique Twelfth- to Fourteenth-Century AD Iron Nail Assemblage from Kanem, Chad
Sur les traces des Grands Empires
Niyanpangu-bansu
Glass Beads from Medieval Gao (Mali)
The Glass Making Crucibles from Ile-Ife, SW Nigeria
The Archaeology of West Africa, ca. 800 BCE to 1500 CE
De l’archipel berbère au Grand jeu saharien
Chemical analysis of glass beads from Igbo Olokun, Ile-Ife (SW Nigeria)
The Making of Bikini Glass in Bida, Nigeria
Iron Age Landscapes of the Benue River Valley, Cameroon
Elephants for Want of Towns”
Glass Beads from Songo Mnara, Tanzania
Crafting Swahili Beads
On the Margins of Ghana and Kawkaw
Glass beads from pre-European contact sub-Saharan Africa
Power, Status, and the Archaeology of the Atlantic Experience in Peki, Ghana
Tracing connections
Reconnecting the Forest, Savanna, and Sahel in West Africa
Archaeological Glass Beads as Evidence of Exchange Dynamics in West Africa
Understanding Archaeological Tells
The Ile-Ife glass bead series
Pottery décor as networks on the Middle Niger, Mali
Zanzibar and Indian Ocean trade in the first millennium CE
The settlement mound of Birnin Lafiya
Ile-Ife and Igbo Olokun in the history of glass in West Africa
Africa in the World
Craft Production Systems
Archaeological Investigations of Iron Age Sites in the Mema Region, Mali (West Africa)
The Oldest extant writing of West Africa
Perles de verre découvertes sur le site de Tegdaoust
Early primary glass production in southern Nigeria
Southern African glass beads
A Simplified Approach to Calibrating 14 C Dates
The Inland Niger Delta before the Empire of Mali
Iron Age Gao
Myth and Metrology
Islamic Glass Weights and Stamps
Chemical Analysis of Glass Beads From Medieval Al‐basra (Morocco)
The Trading of Ancient Glass Beads
Radical changes in Islamic glass technology
The Beads of Kissi, Burkina Faso
Discovery of the earliest royal palace in Gao and its implications for the history of West Africa
Did Specialized Pastoralism Develop Differently in Africa than in the Near East? An Example from the West African Sahel
Excavating Essouk-Tadmakka (Mali)
Archaeological Investigations of Early Trade and Urbanism at Gao Saney (Mali)
Salts of the Western Sahara
| Unique citing works | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,33 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 40 |