AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF ELMINA
Africans and Europeans on the Gold Coast, 1400-1900

CHRISTOPHER R. DeCORSE
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York

Prepublication praise . . .

"DeCorse uses well-dated European artifacts to help establish what is
certainly the most comprehensive archaeological sequence of historic period
West Africa.  . . .  Descriptions and analyses of potting, metalwork, bead
making, ivory carving, and salt making provide much new information and in
some cases demand reevaluation of previously held ideas."

                       Leland Ferguson, University of South Carolina

"[A]n account of the significance of Elmina in West African history,
showing how archaeological evidence can be integrated with documentary
sources and oral evidence to cast new light on this phase of Africaís
history."

                       Martin Hall, University of Cape Town

"[E]legantly reveals a town where West Africans dealt on equal terms with
Europeans.  . . .  DeCorse brings alive a town which was more African than
European in its diet, burial practice, religious rites, and spatial
relations, a town with trading connections with four continents."

                       Merrick Posnansky, University of California, Los
Angeles

Published by Smithsonian Institution Press

ISBN 1-56098-971-8/hardcover/296 pp./illus./2001/$45.00

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