Description: Drawing on recent archaeological research at the site of Diouboye in eastern Senegal, this book explores social life in medieval Bambuk from the standpoint of a village occupied over several centuries (1000-1400 CE). Material and spatial data from excavations, together with those from survey of the middle Falemme River basin, enable
Brief description: Cameron Gokee is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Appalachian State University. His research focuses on the interplay between village communities and historical landscapes in the Senegambia region of West Africa.
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Winner of the 2016-2018 Book Prize of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA)
The volume is nicely produced and is a useful contribution to our understanding of the medieval (Iron Age) archaeology of West Africa, and is achieved in a theoretically mature manner.
Antiquity