Product Description: English summary: The present volume revisits the history of Koumbi Saleh, the Mauritanian site that sat at the center of so many regional developments from the sixth to the seventeenth century. Written sources have portrayed Koumbi Saleh as being swept along by the successive waves of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay political expansions, a history that is re-examined through a close analysis of ceramic materials from the site...read more

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