OF SMALL THINGS REMEMBERED: BEADS, COWRIES, AND CULTURAL TRANSLATIONS OF THE ATLANTIC EXPERIENCE IN YORUBALAND
- A. Ogundiran
- History
- 2002
the ways that Atlantic imports were used as objects of cultural and political capital, altering the physical and cognitive realities of the people, and the impact of the sheer volume and new…
Towns and States of the West African Forest Belt
- A. Ogundiran
- History
- 4 July 2013
Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora
- A. Ogundiran, T. Fálolá
- History
- 2007
Contents Preface Part 1. Introduction 1. Pathways in the Archaeology of Transatlantic Africa Akinwumi Ogundiran and Toyin Falola Part 2. Atlantic Africa 2. Entangled Lives: The Archaeology of Daily…
“Our Ancestors Were Material Scientists”
- A. Ogundiran, O. Ige
- History
- 30 August 2015
The quest for a comprehensive understanding of Africa’s indigenous technology has been an important intellectual agenda in Black Studies. In some instances this interest has tended to be speculative…
Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa: Archaeological Perspectives
- J. Monroe, A. Ogundiran
- History
- 2012
The Atlantic World is increasingly a topic of investigation for historical archaeologists who have followed the lead of historians in designating a number of “Atlantics” as analytical units defined…
Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa: The Formation of an Oyo Imperial Colony during the Atlantic Age
- A. Ogundiran
- History
- 1 February 2012
Material Life and Domestic Economy in a Frontier of the Oyo Empire during the Mid-Atlantic Age*
- A. Ogundiran
- History, Economics
- 1 September 2009
Introduction The Mid- Atlantic Age1 was a period of an integrated commercial system in the Atlantic Basin that linked most parts of Western Europe, the Americas, the Indian Ocean littorals, and much…
Filling a Gap in the Ife–Benin Interaction Field (Thirteenth–Sixteenth Centuries AD): Excavations in Iloyi Settlement, Ijesaland
- A. Ogundiran
- History
- 1 March 2002
Previous archaeological studies have indicated that the Yoruba polity of Ile–Ife and the Edo polity of Benin, both in southwest Nigeria, belonged to the same sphere of sociocultural interactions…
Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and Indigenous Knowledge
- A. Ogundiran
- EconomicsAfrican Archaeological Review
- 1 September 2019
On August 13 this year, President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria directed the country’s central bank to stop providing foreign exchange to businesses seeking to import food into the country. This…
Four Millennia of Cultural History in Nigeria (ca. 2000 B.C.–A.D. 1900): Archaeological Perspectives
- A. Ogundiran
- History
- 1 June 2005
This essay is an analysis of archaeological contributions to the understanding of Nigeria's cultural history between ca. 2000 B.C. and A.D. 1900 focusing on the following themes: the origins of food…
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