Maritime Archaeology in West Africa

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pape Laity Diop.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archaeology in West Africa", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The subject of my communication concerns the policy of repression of the illicit slave trade on the Senegambian seaboard. After three centuries of practice of a commercial activity based on the slave economy, the nineteenth century promises to be very complicated for the actors of the so-called Atlantic trade because of the major reforms...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Crutcher.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archaeology in West Africa", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Finding direct evidence of West African mariners in early modern European sources is like following a trail of breadcrumbs. African labor was vital to regional and global commerce and culture, but is often obscured by European sources. One example is the Portuguese term "grumete,” which technically means a “cabin boy,” but was then...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marissa G Triola.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archaeology in West Africa", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Manillas and cowry shells served as alternative currencies in the trans-Atlantic trade in West Africa. Cowries are marine snails native to the Indian Ocean whose shells were brought into West Africa by trans-Saharan traders and adopted as an everyday alternative currency exchangeable for anything from food to slaves. Manillas are brass...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Moussa Wele.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archaeology in West Africa", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. There is a great wealth of UCH lying off Africa Atlantic coast and in the continent's inland waters, all speaking to the cultural identity of the coastal communities, but also witness to long history and the many maritime links to other parts of the world.In 2018 the UNESCO Regional Office in Dakar launched an initiative that articulates...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trenton Zylstra. Kelsey Rooney.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archaeology in West Africa", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the late 1960s, a British “adventurer” purchased a small fishing boat from Senegal, used it to build a catamaran, and then sailed across the Atlantic to the US. This presentation studies the original construction of the dugout canoe, known colloquially in Senegal as a pirogue. This term, broadly applied to numerous local, vernacular...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madick Gueye.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archaeology in West Africa", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Depuis le 15ème siècle, la presqu'île du Cap-Vert est devenue un maillon essentiel dans les transactions maritimes liant la Sénégambie et le reste du monde grâce à la baie de Gorée. Cette zone a servi de points d’interactions entre la mer et la terre, entre la côte et l’hinterland et entre la Sénégambie et le reste du monde. Plus qu’un...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joel R Santos. Inês Castro. Tiago Silva.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archaeology in West Africa", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When was Australia “discovered” by the European? When did the European trade with America become more significant? How did the Industrial Revolution change the world? These are some of the questions that we believe are possible to answer without leaving the beaches of Cape Verde. The Cape Verde archipelago was a very strategic place in the...