Over the past decade, the increasing wealth of new archaeological data on the Middle Stone
Age (MSA) in Senegal and Mali has broadened our understanding of West Africa's …

MIS 3 environmental conditions in Africa north of the Equator and the Arabian Peninsula
have long been controversial due to data scarcity and methodological caveats. In this paper …

Architecture is an important component of cultural identity, but knowledge regarding
construction techniques using local materials is gradually disappearing, and this subject has …

The presence of glass beads in West African archaeological sites provides important
evidence of long-distance trade between this part of the continent and the rest of the world …

The study of the Palaeolithic in Senegal has made considerable progress in the last decade
and has provided a renewed vision of the behavioral evolution of prehistoric populations in …

Ceramic traditions are constantly evolving, but the pace of change is variable and not all
stages of the chaîne opératoire are affected in the same way, depending on the causes of …

L'objectif de cet article est de présenter les résultats préliminaires de l'étude d'une séquence
sédimentaire de l'Holocène récent située dans la vallée de la Falémé au Sénégal oriental …

Iron production represents a major technological shift in African prehistory, and a growing
body of archaeological and archaeometric data over the past few decades testifies to the …

Abstract Historical narratives in Upper Senegal largely center on precolonial statecraft, long-
distance trade, and ethno-religious mobilization. Drawing on the perspective of political …

Compared to eastern, southern, and northern Africa, there is a rarity of stratified Pleistocene
sites–especially related to the Acheulean techno-complex–and a near absence of hominin …