Elephants for Want of Towns”
Archaeological Perspectives on West African Cities and Their Hinterlands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9744675 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Cameron Monroe (0000-0002-8476-6999, University of California, Santa Cruz, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 387-446 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Archaeological Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1059-0161 • E-ISSN: 1573-7756 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10814-017-9114-2 |
| OpenAlex | W2767860053 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 178 |
Agency (philosophy · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Geography · Pace · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Urban geography · Urban planning · Urbanization · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Urban Studies · Ecology
Early Modern Atlantic Cities
The Early Islamic Trans-Saharan Market Towns of West Africa
Consumption as a Lens for Viewing the Complexities of Medieval Mediterranean Art
Cities, Surplus, and the State
Bringing the Country to Town
Classic Ilé-Ifẹ̀
Os laços que nos unem
Stop making sense
Les villes en Afrique avant 1900. Bilan historiographique et perspectives de recherche
Iwo
Cities in Africa before 1900. Historiography and Research Perspectives
Egyptology and Global History
The Archaeology of Emptiness? Understanding Open Urban Spaces in the Medieval World
Les fortifications endogenes au Senegal Oriental (17ème – 19ème siecle)
Traditions of Equality
Reconnecting the Forest, Savanna, and Sahel in West Africa
Managing Epidemics in Ancestral Yorùbá Towns and Cities
Townlands of the Swahili Coast
Against Method
Harvesting the winds, harvesting the rain
African urbanisms and their hinterlands
The Archaeology of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa (Cambridge World Archaeology)
Dahomey and the slave trade
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Excavations at Jenné-Jeno, Hambarketolo, and Kaniana (Inland Niger Delta, Mali)
Trade and politics on the Gold Coast, 1600-1720
Forests of gold
The Oyo Empire, c.1600-c.1836
Ife in the history of West African sculpture.
West African Early Towns
Man, Settlement and Urbanism
Recherches archéologiques sur la capitale de l’empire de Ghana: Etude d’un secteur d’habitat à Koumbi Saleh, Mauritanie. Campagnes II-III-IV-V (1975-1976)-(1980-1981)
African Civilizations
The Rise of the Bassar Chiefdom in the Context of Africa's Internal Frontier
Modeling political organization in large-scale settlement clusters
Segou, Slavery, and Sifinso
The Formation of an Oyo Imperial Colony during the Atlantic Age
The Eguafo Polity
Western representations of urbanism and invisible African towns
Fortified Towns of the Koinadugu Plateau
Satellite Remote Sensing for Archaeology
Mapping patterns of long-term settlement in Northern Mesopotamia at a large scale
Pathways to complexity
Corpus of early Arabic sources for West African history
The pivot of the four quarters
Settlement, trade and polities in the seventeenth century Gold Coast
A History of African Archaeology
The rise and fall of Swahili states
A short history of Africa
Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora
Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba
Great Benin
Four Millennia of Cultural History in Nigeria (ca. 2000 B.C.–A.D. 1900)
Social and Demographic Changes in the Birim Valley, southern Ghana, c . 1450– c . 1800
Early Trade Posts And Forts Of West Africa
Archaeological Data on the Origins of Cultivation in the Southwestern Sahara and Their Implications for West Africa
Archaeological Data on the Origins of Cultivation in the Southwestern Sahara and Their Implications for West Africa
Australasian Historical Archaeology
Archaeologies of Colonialism
Rulers, Warriors, Traders, Clerics
Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa
Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade
The Precolonial State in West Africa
A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea
The Archaeology of Colonialism
Islam, Archaeology and History
Archaeological Investigations of Iron Age Sites in the Mema Region, Mali (West Africa)
Urbanism, Archaeology and Trade
The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex
Note sur la structure évolutive d'une ville historique. L'exemple d'Abomey (République populaire du Bénin)
Myths of the Archaic State
The Political Landscape
Background to the Ghana empire
On the frontier of empire
Adapting LiDAR data for regional variation in the tropics
Reanalyzing environmental lidar data for archaeology
Revealing pre-historic Native American Belle Glade earthworks in the Northern Everglades utilizing airborne LiDAR
Regional-Scale Archaeological Remote Sensing in the Age of Big Data
Early primary glass production in southern Nigeria
Swords into Ploughshares
Dia Shoma (Mali), a medieval cemetery in the inner Niger delta
Plant use at an early Islamic merchant town in the West African Sahel
Comparing archaeological settlement systems with rank-size graphs
Rediscovering the lost archaeological landscape of southern New England using airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR)
Automated feature extraction for prospection and analysis of monumental earthworks from aerial LiDAR in the Kingdom of Tonga
Urbanism and the archaeological visibility of African complex societies
On the Trail of the Bush King
States and Trade in the Central Sahel
The early city in West Africa
Field survey in the tumulus zone of Senegal
New Perspectives on Sincu Bara, a First Millennium Site in the Senegal Valley
Early Urban Clusters in China and Africa
A View from the Periphery
Ceramic Spheres and Regional Networks in the Yoruba-Edo Region, Nigeria, 13th–19th Centuries A.C
Field Report
Researching Africa's Past
Bronze and Terra-Cotta Sculptures from Ita Yemoo, Ife
Using LiDAR data to locate a Middle Woodland enclosure and associated mounds, Louisa County, Iowa
Tadmekka. Archéologie d’une ville caravanière des premiers temps du commerce transsaharien
Les sites Gangara, la fin de la culture de Tichitt et l'origine de Ghana
Early Asante and European Contacts
Coastal Ghana in the first and second millennia AD
Notse's ancient kingship
Communautés villageoises néolithiques des Dhars Tichitt et Oualata (Mauritanie)
Towns and States of the West African Forest Belt
Rediscovering Ghana's past
The Dahomean Feast
Using historically informed archaeology
Subsistence patterns of the Dhar Tichitt Neolithic, Mauritania
Sorotomo
Culture contact, continuity, and change on the Gold Coast, AD 1400–1900
Dahomey and the Dahomans
Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire
The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology
African Archaeology
Initial Encounters
Ife and its Archaeology
Archaeology and the prehistoric origins of the Ghana empire
Wealth in People as Wealth in Knowledge
The Pulse Model
Prelude to the Atlantic Trade
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |