Djenné-Djenno

The town of Djenné-Djenno to the Mali, the oldest city of Africa of the west (founded towards -250), reached 10.000 inhabitants approximately about the year 800. The wall from the city, cylindrical brick fact between 400 and 800, has up to 11 m of width. Its two kilometers of circumference shelter round or rectangular houses. Local agriculture can apparently nourish its many population. It trades with Tombouctou which knows prosperity thanks to the market of rock salt, extracted in the south of the the Sahara. It will be mysteriously abandoned towards 1400. The current city of Djenné is built to 3 km of this site.

The site of Djenné-Djenno “was excavated” by an archaeological mission led by Roderick and Susan McIntosh, professors of anthropology with Rice University of Houston (Texas, the United States), in the years 1970 and 1980. One finds there in abundance of the shards of pottery.

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http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~anth/arch/brochure/broch-fr.html Jenne-Jeno, an old African city of Susan Keech McIntosh and Roderick J. McIntosh

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