Imperial expansion, ethnic change, and ceramic traditions in the Southern chad basin: A terminal nineteenth-century pottery assemblage from Dikwa, Borno State, Nigeria

International Journal of Historical Archeology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 35-70

  Gronenborn, Detlef ^a   Magnavita, Carlos ^a  

^a Archäologie und Archäobotanik Afrikas ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Imperial expansion; Pottery analysis; Style

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344541278     PISSN: 10927697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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