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Author Wait, G. A. (Gerald A.), author.

Title Archaeology and ethnography along the Loango Coast in the south west of the Republic of Congo / Gerry Wait and Ibrahima Thiaw ; with Tim Copeland and Elizabeth Gardner.

Publication Info. Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Archaeopress archaeology
Archaeopress archaeology.
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- List of Figures -- Figure 1. Location Map of the project area -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- The archaeological heritage regulatory framework in the RC -- International Regulatory Framework -- Figure 2. Map of the study area showing the principal villages mentioned in the text -- Figure 3. Typical household, Dougou village -- The Sintoukola Potash Project -- The methodology -- Approach and Methodology: -- Desktop Research and Planning -- Objectives -- Field Survey Methodology -- Archaeological and historical background
Artefact analysis -- Pottery -- Imports -- Lithic Artefacts -- Conclusions: archaeology and the location and dating of ancestral sites -- Figure 4. Yanika village in the mixed savannah-forest zone -- Figure 5. The village of Nkoutou -- Figure 6. Fieldwalking with the massive plantation of cloned eucalyptus trees behind -- Figure 7. Fieldwalking in the mixed savannah and forest zone -- Figure 8. Site recording -- Dt Thiaw and Directrice Mdm Nsania Julienne -- Figure 9. Recording at Lac Ndembo, on one of the sites also recorded by Denbow (note his concrete marker)
Figure 10. Denbow's marker for the site at Lac Ndembo -- Figure 11. Map after Denbow of sites -- Figure 12. Fieldwalking through the mixed savannah-forest zone -- Figure 13. Survey team at Denbow's marker for site BP113 -- Figure 14. Denbow's marker for site BP113 -- Figure 15. Rim-sherd of pottery found in the coastal zone -- Table 1. Chronological periods and pottery styles related to sites discovered in the 2011 survey -- Figure 16. Locations of Archaeological Sites -- Figure 17. Locations of ISO sites
Figure 18. Density of archaeological remains near the coast up to approximately 8km inland -- Figure 19. Density of archaeological remains in the zone of savannah-forest mosaic -- Figure 20. Density of Archaeological remains in the Mayombe -- Figure 21. Zones of relative archaeological potential -- ASPECTS OF THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE IN THE IN THE SINTOUKOLA PERMIT AREA -- Approach -- Objectives -- The social context -- Methodology -- Communal Organisation -- Terrien families -- Religion and beliefs -- Sacred sites: Sanctuaries -- Cemeteries -- Churches -- Zéphirin
Tchikombi and Mangoudi and other dances/festivals -- Christian Churches and Traditional Witchcraft and Sorcery -- Terriens, Village Chiefs, Christian Churches -- Conclusions -- Distribution of Sacred sites -- Figure 22. Village consultation in Koutou -- Figure 23. Meeting with a babongo (pygmy) family near Youbi -- Figure 24. Meeting with villagers in Dougou village -- Figure 25. Map of sacred sites developed during consultation in Koutou with Bouvandji -- Figure 26. Map of sacred sites Lakes Youbi and Yangala developed during consultation with Youbi terriens
Summary This book presents the results of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) project in the southwest region of the Republic of the Congo, undertaken to identify and evaluate cultural resources which might need further investigation. The study also reports on ethnographic surveys considering intangible cultural heritage.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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Subject Cultural property -- Congo (Brazzaville) -- Kouilou (Department)
Cultural property.
Congo (Brazzaville)
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Congo (Brazzaville) -- Kouilou (Department)
Excavations (Archaeology)
Kouilou (Congo : Department) -- Antiquities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
Antiquities.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Thiaw, Ibrahima, author.
Copeland, Tim, editor.
Gardner, Elizabeth, (Illustrator), illustrator.
Other Form: Print version: 1784919942 9781784919948 (DLC) 2018439880 (OCoLC)1052876579
ISBN 9781784919955 (electronic book)
1784919950 (electronic book)
1784919942
9781784919948