Komé - Kribi: Rescue Archaeology Along the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline, 1999-2004Africa Magna Verlag, 2010 - 177 Seiten This book presents the
first preview of discoveries made in the longest archaeological trench
ever dug in Africa. From the forests of coastal south Cameroon towards
the dry savannas in southern Chad, the construction of the underground
pipeline of the Chad Export Project enabled an international research
team to investigate a transect of 1070 kilometers (!) length. The
Kome-Kribi project demonstrates the exemplary application of rescue or
preventive archaeology and of cultural heritage management with regard
to a variety of involved political and commercial institutions. In areas
previously almost unknown archaeologically an impressive number of 472
new sites from the Middle Stone Age to the Iron Age, many considered to
be important, were located. Their description, including quantities of
cultural materials, a chronological outline based on about sixty
radiocarbon dates, and the integration of the new and known evidence in a
synoptic consideration of the cultural development of Central Africa,
provides a substantial base for further studies and, for those
archaeologists less familiar with the region, also offers an
introduction into the local prehistory. Finally, the authors have given
us a vision on the abundance of information about Africa’s past that is
still preserved in the ground and scarcely touched, so far. |
Inhalt
Preface | 1 |
Acknowledgements | 4 |
1 Introduction | 5 |
2 Project structure and regulatory basis | 7 |
3 Natural and human environments in the Chad Export Project study area | 15 |
4 Background to prehistoric cultural patterning in the Chad Export Project study area | 25 |
Maps | 35 |
5 Archaeological impact mitigation p rocedures | 47 |
7 Archaeological sites in Chad | 61 |
8 Archaeological sites in Cameroon | 89 |
9 Regional comparisons | 137 |
10 Conclusions | 145 |
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Appendix | 161 |
Abbreviations | 177 |
6 Site patterning and site treatment in the Chad Export Project research area | 57 |
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