Networked Farmers, Ancestral Rituals, Regional Marketplaces, and Salt: New Insights into the Complexity of First Millennium BC/AD Farming Societies in West Africa

Dueppen, Stephen A.; Gallagher, Daphne

doi:10.1007/s10437-022-09509-2

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“…At present, farmers' way of life has an impact on their future choices of residence 48 . Research by Dueppen highlights that in ancient West Africa, farm dwellings served various purposes, such as farming, cultivation, and habitation, with multigenerational cohabitation being the dominant settlement pattern of that era 49 . Long-term living arrangements, such as living alone or with two or three generations, significantly affect farmers' future housing choices 50 .…”

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Residents’ future residential preference and its affecting factors in the rapid urbanization zone of rural China from a family life cycle perspective

Zhang,

Tong,

et al. 2024

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Understanding farmers’ future residential preferences and the factors affecting these choices is crucial for tackling the issues related to hollow village management and rural planning. Despite limited research on the role of the family life cycle, this study explores how the family life cycle, characteristics of the household head, livelihood strategies, and resource availability shape farmers’ future residential preferences. Data were collected from 777 households in China’s main grain-producing area. The findings reveal that 52.90% of households prefer to stay in their current rural residences. Other favored options are elderly care facilities (13.90%), living with children in the village (12.36%), and ancestral homes (11.68%). The family life cycle significantly affects these preferences (p < 0.01), with changes in family structure and age leading to different living choices. Specifically, households in the initial (71.29%), burden (70.32%), and stable stages (40.14%) prefer their current rural residences, while those in the maintenance and empty-nest stages opt for living with their children’s residences (22.22% and 16.96%, respectively) or in elderly care facilities (30.00% and 33.93%). Meanwhile, age, health, income, livelihood strategies, and land ownership also markedly influence the choice of residence. Recommendations include educational programs for elderly rural residents, improving older individuals’ adaptability to rural changes, creating more rural employment opportunities, and enhancing medical and infrastructural services for the sustainable rural development.

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Residents’ future residential preference and its affecting factors in the rapid urbanization zone of rural China from a family life cycle perspective

Zhang,

Tong,

et al. 2024

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“…The oldest dated mound sites were established in the first millennium BCE, when iron-using agricultural societies first settled in the Mouhoun Bend (Holl 2014;Holl & Koté 2000;Koté 2007; see also discussions in Dueppen 2022). They occupied an area that from current data was heavily forested and had probably presented challenges for previous Neolithic farmers who may have preferred the better-drained metamorphic formations of central Burkina Faso prior to increasing aridity in the first millennium BCE (see Dueppen 2022;Dueppen & Gallagher 2023).…”

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Understanding Archaeological Tells: Circulating Memories and Engaging with Ancestors through Material Attachments

Dueppen¹,

Gallagher²

2023

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Tell sites are central to archaeological interpretation in many world regions due to their lengthy sequences of stratified deposits. However, the cultural choices that create architectural remnants and associated materials are more poorly understood, as are the ways that previous layers situate the living community above. This article calls for agentive understandings of tell-formation processes through examination of archaeological sites in Burkina Faso, West Africa. We argue that tells here formed through strong cultural beliefs of co-residence between the living and ancestral communities. Drawing on data from excavation and cross-section profiles exposed by road construction, we provide evidence that architectural remnants were actively created and preserved in rituals related to the making and veneration of ancestors. Particular places in tells were used for new construction (often with foundation ritual deposits) only after the active memory of the individual faded from the living community, resulting in a slow (at least 80–100 years) stratification process. Through variations on these core ritual processes, dynamic multi-temporal social groups reinvented themselves over 1500 years through eras of inequity, egalitarian revolution and the Black Death pandemic.

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The Archaeology of Social Transformation in Rural Zanzibar, Tanzania, from the Eleventh Through Nineteenth Centuries CE

Alders

2023

Afr Archaeol Rev

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Networked Farmers, Ancestral Rituals, Regional Marketplaces, and Salt: New Insights into the Complexity of First Millennium BC/AD Farming Societies in West Africa

Cited by 10 publications

References 55 publications

Residents’ future residential preference and its affecting factors in the rapid urbanization zone of rural China from a family life cycle perspective

Residents’ future residential preference and its affecting factors in the rapid urbanization zone of rural China from a family life cycle perspective

Understanding Archaeological Tells: Circulating Memories and Engaging with Ancestors through Material Attachments

The Archaeology of Social Transformation in Rural Zanzibar, Tanzania, from the Eleventh Through Nineteenth Centuries CE

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