We are a team of archaeologists, historians and anthropologists studying the Niger Valley where it borders Niger and Bénin (West Africa). We are carrying out new excavations and research to shed more light on the people that inhabited the area between about 1200 and 1850 AD.
This blog will tell you all about it.
This investigation is funded by the European Research Council as part of the Starting Independent Researcher Programme (Seventh Framework Programme – FP7); it is led by Dr Anne Haour of the University of East Anglia, UK. The opinions posted here are however her own!
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quick captions – with Uthman dan Fodio’s standard; five archaeology PhDs, and we still can’t figure out the pits; Romuald at the dyeing site in Karimama, with its new wall; Ali figuring out the devilish SIV stratigraphy; Dr Smith leaves us; an exercise in section drawing; pole photography at sunset; the pots finally removed from the SIV section; Wahabou poses on the shores of the Niger; Louis with Leni, Bhadji and Fadalou