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This volume contains the proceedings of the international conference "Cultural developments and technological innovations in first millennium BC/AD West Africa" held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in March 2008, with participants from eleven countries and three continents. The rationale behind the meeting was the conviction that the first millennium before and after the beginning of the Common Era, like no other period before, encompasses the origins of developments that are directly related to the modern world - particularly in Africa. Current archaeological research in West Africa has been providing an increasing amount of relevant evidence on this period, including a series of significant developments that had critical impacts on human ways of life in subsequent times. The papers of the present volume deal with different aspects of these developments and contribute towards the understanding of the unique cultural diversity of this part of the African continent.
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T. Vallette, S. Amblard-Pison, C. Albaret, H. Jousse, A. Dicko & A. Person: Les groupements de pièces lithiques peuvent-ils être des indices de modes de vie des sociétés néolithiques ?
Le cas du Dhar Néma (Mauritanie sud-orientale) du second au premier millénaire av. J.-C.
P. Breunig: Cultural Change in the First Millennium BC - Evidence from Nigeria, West Africa
C. Magnavita, P. Breunig, D. Ishaya & O. Adebayo: Iron Age Beginnings at the Southwestern Margins of Lake Chad
A.F.C. Holl: Iron Metallurgy in West Africa: An Early Iron Smelting Site in the Mouhoun Bend, Burkina Faso
L. Koté: Recherches archéologiques au Burkina Faso : entre logique politique et idéal scientifique
S. Magnavita: Sahelian Crossroads: Some Aspects on the Iron Age Sites of Kissi, Burkina Faso
P. Robertshaw, S. Magnavita, M. Wood, E. Melchiorre, R. Popelka-Filcoff & M.D. Glascock: Glass Beads From Kissi (Burkina Faso): Chemical Analysis and Archaeological Interpretation
T.R. Fenn, D.J. Killick, J. Chesley, S. Magnavita & J. Ruiz: Contacts Between West Africa and Roman North Africa: Archaeometallurgical Results from Kissi, Northeastern Burkina Faso
R. Kuba: Cultural Contacts Between the Savannah and the Forest: Trade Along the Eastern Niger
O.A. Idé: La question du fer dans la vallée de la Mékrou, Niger méridional
J.-M. Fabre: La métallurgie du fer au Sahel burkinabé à la fin du 1er millénaire AD
D. N'dah: Contribution de l'archéologie à la connaissance de l'histoire du peuplement de l'Atakora entre le premier et le second millénaire après Jésus-Christ
B.W. Kankpeyeng & S.N. Nkumbaan: Ancient Shrines? New Insights on the Komaland Sites of Northern Ghana
S. MacEachern: Before States? Mandara Peripheries in the Late First and Early Second Millennia AD
C. Pelzer, M. von Czerniewicz & L.P. Petit: De l'évènement à l'histoire structurelle : Oursi hu-beero
M. Sall: Familles céramiques des sites de la Vallée du fleuve Sénégal (0-1400 AD) et problématique des origines Sereer
T.H. Kiénon-Kaboré: La métallurgie ancienne du fer en Côte d'Ivoire : Etat des connaissances et perspectives de recherche
H.P. Hahn: L'ancienne métallurgie de fer en Afrique de l'ouest - Problèmes ethnoarchéologiques et interprétations
L. Simporé: La métallurgie traditionnelle du fer et la fondation du Royaume de Wogdogo (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
Note (par J.C. Ky): Le Patrimoine culturel sahélien dans les collections du Musée National du Burkina
