African Worlds South of the Sahara: Deep History, Cities, and States
Southwestern Lake Chad basin · Perfil con revisión de fuentes

Daima and Lake Chad communities

Daima mound

A deep mound sequence preserves changing settlement, food production, craft, iron use, architecture, and exchange near Lake Chad without turning material phases into tribes or direct ancestors of later states.

Long-lived mound settlement and regional archaeological context Late second millennium BCE-early second millennium CE, with later regional histories Stratified mound excavation, radiocarbon dating, ceramics, architecture, plant and animal remains, metal evidence, and regional survey Daima mound near Lake Chad; an excavated settlement reference, not a capital, ethnic center, or modern boundary point
Resumen

Evidencias, paisajes, escala comunitaria, organización política y conexiones

Paisajes históricos, movilidad y conexiones regionales

Lake-margin plains, changing shorelines, river systems, pasture, farmland, and transboundary routes shaped settlement and mobility.

Organización política y escala comunitaria

Households and settlement communities organized subsistence, craft, construction, exchange, and defense through changing phases; the mound does not document one continuous state.

Transformación posterior, patrimonio vivo y recepción moderna

Daima lies in modern Nigeria within a wider Lake Chad landscape shared across states and living communities. The point makes no border, ethnic, or ancestry claim.

Reference point Daima mound

One long-lived settlement, not a universal regional capital.

Reviewed 2026 [S1]
Evidence Stratified settlement sequence

Phases describe deposits, not fixed peoples.

Current research [S1] [S3]
Map limit Lake Chad is transboundary

The marker expresses no sovereignty or ethnic boundary.

Current geography [S2]
Secuencia histórica

Una cronología breve y documentada

Estos hitos sirven de orientación y no constituyen una historia completa.

  1. Mound occupation begins

    Dated deposits document settlement near changing Lake Chad environments.

    [S1] [S2]

  2. Subsistence and material practices change

    Ceramics, food remains, and settlement deposits reveal locally varied development.

    [S1] [S3]

  3. Iron use and settlement complexity grow

    Later phases include changing craft and architecture without proving ethnic replacement.

    [S1] [S2]

  4. Stratified sequence excavated

    Fieldwork established a regional chronology while later research has revised its wider interpretation.

    [S1] [S3]
Cultura e idioma

Hogares, paisajes, subsistencia, trabajo, lengua, creencias, artesanía y movilidad

Idiomas mencionados en este perfil

  • No locally written corpus for most of the sequence
  • Later regional language and political identities cannot be read directly from pottery

Familia lingüística: Unknown from mound phases alone

Deep stratigraphy records change rather than one culture.

Lake fluctuations affected settlement and subsistence.

Regional exchange developed without erasing local agency.

Stone architecture, elite burials, imported goods, inscriptions, monumental art, and external chronicles are often more visible than households, rural work, women, children, enslaved people, mobile communities, and oral knowledge. Evidence gaps must not be filled with primitive, isolated, stateless, foreign-builder, or lost-civilization narratives.

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Fuentes utilizadas en esta página

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    Tsodilo

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · 2001; current record

  3. C3

    Old Towns of Djenne

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · 1988; current record

  4. C4

    Aksum

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · 1980; current record

  5. C5

    Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · 2003; current record

  6. C6

    Mbanza Kongo, Vestiges of the Capital of the former Kingdom of Kongo

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · 2017; current record

  7. C7

    Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · 1981; current record

  8. C8

    Great Zimbabwe National Monument

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · 1986; current record

  9. C9

    Hyrax Hill Museum

    National Museums of Kenya · National museum and site record · Current institutional record

  10. C10

    Arts of Africa: archaeological contexts including Nok, Igbo-Ukwu, and Ife

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Museum research resource · Current museum resource

  11. S1

    The Daima Sequence and the Prehistoric Chronology of the Lake Chad Region of Nigeria

    The Journal of African History, Cambridge University Press · Peer-reviewed archaeological study · 1976; online record 2009

  12. S2

    Lake Chad Cultural Landscape

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · Transboundary heritage record · 2018; current record

  13. S3

    Nigeria heritage records

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage portal · Current institutional record

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Revisión editorial: 4 agosto 2026

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