West African Worlds: Rivers, Forests, Cities, and Living Heritage
West Africa; selected Mali context · Profil avec revue des sources

Ounjougou and early Holocene pottery

No ancient self-designation is inferred from this research label or modern place name.

Project research dates selected pottery to the tenth millennium cal BCE, not to an entire regional population. The research history treats Ounjougou as a complex of localities, not one continuously occupied household. The project distinguishes early Holocene phases; pottery and plant processing do not by themselves demonstrate domesticated crops.

Archaeological landscape Tenth millennium BCE and later Holocene phases; earlier background separate Stratified pottery, grinding material, sediments and project chronology Bandiagara, Mali: approximate public-town orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site or private-land location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty or route boundary. No access, collecting or travel permission is implied.
Aperçu

Foyers, paysages, institutions et éléments probants

Fleuves, environnements et connexions régionales

Bandiagara is a modern orientation for the named context. No territorial extent or automatic continuity is inferred. Selected occupation contexts do not establish a single village, state or regional government.

Organisation politique et échelle communautaire

Selected occupation contexts do not establish a single village, state or regional government.

Transformation ultérieure, patrimoine vivant et réception moderne

Living communities and heritage institutions retain their own authority. Later research and interpretation are dated separately below. No securely identified spoken language follows from early pottery. The atlas cannot establish identity, ancestry, descent or membership.

Evidence Project research dates selected pottery to the tenth millennium cal BCE, not to an entire regional population.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of the registered source, not author or community endorsement; retain the stated sample and chronological limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Research context The research history treats Ounjougou as a complex of localities, not one continuously occupied household.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of the registered source, not author or community endorsement; retain the stated sample and chronological limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S2]
Interpretive limit The project distinguishes early Holocene phases; pottery and plant processing do not by themselves demonstrate domesticated crops.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of the registered source, not author or community endorsement; retain the stated sample and chronological limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S3]
Séquence historique

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

Ces repères servent d'orientation et ne constituent pas une histoire complète.

  1. Early pottery

    Selected stratified finds support early ceramic use; avoid a universal first-pottery claim.

  2. Changing assemblages

    The project separates phases rather than assuming one unchanged people.

  3. Landscape investigation

    Project history documents multiple localities and changing research questions.

  4. Limits retained

    Calendar dates, site phases and subsistence interpretations remain distinct.

Culture et langue

Alimentation, artisanat, travail, apprentissage et croyances

Langues mentionnées dans ce profil

  • No securely identified spoken language follows from early pottery.

Famille linguistique: Language, script, archaeological style and political affiliation are distinct; this selected evidence does not classify every resident.

Project research dates selected pottery to the tenth millennium cal BCE, not to an entire regional population.

The research history treats Ounjougou as a complex of localities, not one continuously occupied household.

The project distinguishes early Holocene phases; pottery and plant processing do not by themselves demonstrate domesticated crops.

Material evidence and transmitted accounts require context; no artifact, manuscript, ancestral-remains or sacred-site imagery is reproduced.

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Sources utilisées pour cette page

Prefer national heritage institutions, accountable archaeological projects, academic editions, original studies and living community knowledge in its authorized context. Identify institutional summaries, repository abstracts, preliminary reports, older colonial research, advisory evaluations and tentative nominations rather than treating them as independent excavation confirmation. Attribute chronology, composition date, genre, audience and viewpoint. Public access is not permission to reproduce source images, archives or restricted knowledge.

  1. C1

    Human interactions with tropical environments over the last 14,000 years at Iho Eleru, Nigeria

    Cerasoni and colleagues; iScience; PubMed research record · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · 2023

  2. C2

    Optical and thermoluminescence dating of Middle Stone Age and Kintampo bearing sediments at Birimi, a multi-component archaeological site in Ghana

    Quickert, Godfrey-Smith and Casey; Quaternary Science Reviews · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · 2003

  3. C3

    10,000 year history of plant use at Bosumpra Cave, Ghana

    Oas, D’Andrea and Watson; University of Ghana repository; Vegetation History and Archaeobotany · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · 2015

  4. C4

    To Timbuktu From A Land Far Away: Migrating Manuscripts

    Ali Diakité and Paul Naylor; Hill Museum & Manuscript Library · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · 2025-01-30

  5. C5

    Learning From Our Past

    University of Victoria; community-linked educational publication · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · 2023

  6. C6

    Banda Through Time

    University of Victoria Libraries; Banda Heritage Initiative · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · Undated; consulted 2026-10-20

  7. C7

    Site archéologique de Bura

    Niger State Party; UNESCO tentative-list record · Tentative nomination, not World Heritage inscription · 2006

  8. C8

    The Oudierin Drainage Archaeological Project: New Perspectives on the Saloum Delta Shell Middens (Senegal)

    Original archaeological project; African Archaeological Review; PMC · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · 2022

  9. C9

    Early Oyo History Reconsidered

    Babatunde A. Agiri; History in Africa 2, 1–16; Cambridge University Press · Original historical study; oral-tradition and chronology critique · 1975; online edition 2014

  10. C10

    St. George’s Castle (Elmina Castle), Elmina (1482)

    Ghana Museums and Monuments Board · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · Undated; consulted 2026-10-20

  11. C11

    Bibliothèque de Manuscrits al-Imam Essayouti

    Hill Museum & Manuscript Library · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · Undated; consulted 2026-10-20

  12. S1

    The beginning of the Holocene at Ounjougou

    Human Population and Palaeoenvironment in Africa project · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · Undated; consulted 2026-10-20

  13. S2

    Research history

    Ounjougou research project · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · Undated; consulted 2026-10-20

  14. S3

    Archaeology

    Ounjougou research project · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · Undated; consulted 2026-10-20

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Revisión editorial: 20 octobre 2026