The dia archaeological project: Rescuing cultural heritage in the Inland Niger Delta (Mali)

Antiquity

Volumn 75, Issue 290, 2001, Pages 837-848

  Bedaux, Rogier ^a   Macdonald, Kevin ^b   Person, Alain ^c   Polet, Jean ^d   Sanogo, Kléna ^e   Schmidt, Annette ^a   Sidibé, Samuel ^f  

^a Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^e Institut des Sciences Humaines   (Mali)

^f Hospital du Mali   (Mali)

Author keywords

Cultural heritage; Dia; Iron Age; Late Stone Age; Mali; Settlement mounds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039488280     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00089419     Document Type: Article

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