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DOCUMENT Citation Only Oluseyi O. Agbelusi.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While many archaeological studies examine the impacts of the Atlantic slave trade on West African communities, archaeological research on tension for freedom in the region has been limited. No archaeological studies have analysed how anti-slavery or struggle for abolition set the stage for colonialism in the region. This paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean H. Reid.

This paper illustrates how images captured by satellite remote sensing technology can be used to detect vegetation that indicates archaeological sites in West Africa. These sites are typically marked by a pattern of vegetation that differs from the surrounding landscape, including concentrations of very large trees with sociocultural and historical significance: cotton (Ceiba pentandra) and baobab (Adansonia digitata). These features are conspicuous elements of the landscape both from the ground...