Rethinking the mandara political landscape: Cultural developments, climate, and an entry into history in the second millennium A.D

Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa: Archaeological Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 309-336

  MacEachern, Scott ^a  

^a BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511921032.016     Document Type: Chapter

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