H2020Индивидуална стипендия2019–2021

PALP · Pathiana Archaeological Landscapes Project

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2019-11-16 → 2021-11-15
Финансиране от ЕС: 160 932 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Археологичните пейзажи в региона Патиана в Сенегал се изследват чрез анализ на 30 нови обекта и устни предания. Това помага да се разбере как са се променяли политическите структури в района от 13-ти век до колониалния период.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Pathiana Archaeological Landscapes Project

Located in southern Senegal, in what is currently the Kolda region, the area traditionally known as Pathiana is one of the most underdeveloped parts of Senegal and one that has been marginalised politically and economically since colonial times. Historically, however, this small (30x40 km) territory was a key and powerful player that deeply shaped the history of the Senegambia: first as part of an unknown Bainouk polity (pre-13th C), later as part of the Kaabu province of the Mali Empire (13th-19th C), and eventually as one of the provinces of the Fulaadu kingdom (late 19th C) and a colonial canton (20th C). However, Pathiana had never been the subject of a thorough historical and archaeological study. The aim of this project was therefore two-fold: firstly, to document systematically the archaeology of Pathiana in order to obtain material proof of the historical role of the region and generate the chronologies and baselines for future research to build on. Secondly, to understand how its political power structures changed and adapted over time, with a particular focus on their articulation and materialisation through the landscape. Both goals were fully achieved. Through documents collected in the national archives five different countries, recordings of oral tradition interviews with village elders in ten villages, and the identification and documentation of 30 new archaeological sites across the region, we have generated enough data to put Pathiana in the historical and archaeological map, and enable future research to flourish. The analysis of these data has also allowed us to achieve the second goal: generating new insights into the operation and change over time of Pathiana’s political structures. While this project and its results fill an important lacuna in our understanding of the region, their relevance is not merely academic: the local populations were deeply interested in our work, and I shall return in 2022 to give them copies of the projects results as well as transcripts of the interviews.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

This project focuses on the archaeology and history of the territory of Pathiana, a small (30x40km) region in southern Senegal which has played a key role in the history of the Senegambia over the last millennium. From the 12th to the early 20th C, and through four major socio-political disruptions, Pathiana survived as a political unit and centre of power, becoming a key player in the Atlantic trade in the process. Nevertheless, despite its key historical importance, Pathiana has never been archaeologically or historically studied, except for some limited excavations conducted as part of the applicant’s PhD. The proposed project aims to redress this situation by combing archival research with surface survey and recording of oral traditions amongst village elders. This will generate three interrelated datasets -historical European accounts and maps, local oral historical narratives, and archaeological survey data- which will be combined to achieve two main goals. Firstly, this project will rectify a major lacuna in our understanding of the Senegambia by systematically documenting the archaeology of Pathiana and its associated traditions. This will correlate for the first time the region’s intangible narratives with tangible remains and generate the chronologies and baselines for future research to build on. Additionally, this interdisciplinary dataset will be used to explore how the political structures of a small but powerful polity changed and adapted through seven centuries and three major societal upheavals, and how such structures were reflected in, and articulated through, the landscape. This project thus will generate highly significant data and interpretations concerning both the history of the Senegambia and wider debates on societal organization, political complexity, and the relationship between power and spatiality, as well as further exploring the long-standing dialogue between oral traditions, written sources and archaeology.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · MadridКоординаторИспания