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Title Oursi hu-beero : a medieval house complex in Burkina Faso, West Africa / editors, Lucas P. Petit, Maya von Czerniewicz, Christoph Pelzer ; contributions by Klaus-Dieter Albert [and others].

Publication Info. Leiden : [Oxford] : [Sidestone] ; [Oxbow [distributor], [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents List of Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Editors' Preface; Acknowledgement; Foreword; 1 Introduction to Oursi hu-beero; 2 Geomorphodynamic Events at Oursi; 3 Oursi hu-beero in Situ; 4 Stratigraphical Setting; 5 Architecture and Related Objects; 6 The Pottery; 7 Stone Objects; 8 Miscellaneous Finds; 9 Faunal Remains; 10 Analysis of the Charcoal Finds; 11 Non-Charcoal Archaeobotanical Remains; 12 Phytolith Analysis of Charred Leaf Remainsof Plaited Basketry; 13 Human Remains; 14 Radiocarbon Dates.
15 Cultural Preservation and Socio-EconomicDevelopment: the Oursi hu-beero Project16 Oursi hu-beero; References; Appendix A: List of Loci; Appendix B -- List of Bucketnumbers; Appendix C -- List of Plant Remains (Excluding Charcoal)and Examined Archaeobotanical Samples; Appendix D -- List of Animal Species.
Summary This final report describes the study of an exceptionally well-preserved Iron Age building discovered in northern Burkina Faso, West Africa. The site of Oursi hu-beero, meaning ""the big house of Oursi"" in the locally spoken Songhay language, was excavated in 2000 and 2001 by a scientific team from the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Ouagadougou. It is situated in the middle of a group of settlement mounds, nearby the modern village of Oursi. In the year 2000, deep erosion gullies were threatening the architectural remains on the surface, which were provisionally dated to the 10th centu.
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Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- Burkina Faso -- Oudalan.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Burkina Faso -- Oudalan.
Archaeology, Medieval -- Burkina Faso -- Oudalan.
Archaeology, Medieval.
Dwellings -- Burkina Faso -- Oudalan -- History -- To 1500.
Dwellings.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject History.
Oudalan (Burkina Faso) -- Antiquities.
HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
Antiquities.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Petit, Lucas Pieter.
Czerniewicz, Maya von.
Pelzer, Christoph.
Other Form: Paperback 9789088900679
ISBN 9088901155
9789088901157
1299281931 (e-book)
9781299281936 (e-book)