Case Studies from the Middle Niger and Middle Senegal River Valleys
from Part III - Neighbours and Comparanda
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2020
It has been 40 years since the first publication of results of archaeological investigations at the massive settlement mound of Jenné-jeno challenged traditional historiography concerning towns and trade in West Africa. Prior assumptions that Arab-initiated Trans-Saharan trade provided the impetus for town growth along the Middle Niger have yielded to an explanatory model grounded in the local development of regional, inter-regional and long-distance exchange and interaction by the mid-first millennium AD. These findings coincided with an active political and scholarly agenda to decolonise Africa’s past, which provided an incentive for archaeologists to seek additional instances of early trade and town growth along the Middle Niger (Méma, Dia, Timbuktu, Gao, Bentia) and the Middle Senegal (Fig. 14.1).
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