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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 Africa's
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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