Mdaga

12.208888888889 15.126388888889Coordinates: 12 ° 12 ′ 32 " N , 15 ° 7 ′ 35" E

Mdaga

Mdaga is an archaeological excavation site in present-day Chad , about 14 km north of N'Djamena (formerly Fort Lamy). The Mdaga culture is named after this place. Here the transition from the late Stone Age to the Iron Age could be observed quite well.

The ruin site has an elliptical shape and is approx. 300 m long and 185 m wide. It lies on the Linia , a tributary of the Chari , which only carries water at times. The place was excavated from 1960 to 1968. At least 12 layers could be distinguished. The finds consisted of ceramics, terracotta figures, animal bones, bone tools, stone tools and also metal objects made of iron and later also of copper. The place appears from around 500 BC. To have been settled. The iron artifacts were found from layer 8 and date from approx. 200 BC. BC, whereby iron slag indicates the processing of the metal on site. The top layers date back to the 17th century .

House structures could not be found, but these are indirectly detected by fire pits. There were burials, some of which contained grave goods, such as ostrich egg pearls and a clay headrest.

literature

Jean-Paul Lebeuf, AMD Lebeuf, A. Françoise Treinen-Claustre, J. Courtin: Le gisement Sao de Mdaga (Tchad). Fouilles de 1960-1968. Paris 1980. Société d'Ethnographie
Jean-Paul Lebeuf: Carte archeologique des abords du lac Tchad. Paris 1969. Editions du CNRS
Augutsin Holl: The Archeology of Africa , edited by T. Shaw, P. Sinclair, B. Andah, A. Okpoko, London / New York 1993, pp. 341-43, ISBN 041511585X
Graham Connah: Three Thousand Years in Africa: man and his environment in the Lake Chad region of Nigeria . London 1982, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521228480
TK250 West Africa sheet ND 33-5 FORT LAMY (Niger, Chad, Nigeria, Cameroon) Series 1301, Edition 5-AMS (6.7MB)

Individual evidence

↑ Olivier Langlois: Distributions ancienne et actuelle des décors imprimés au Diamaré (North Cameroun) et à ses marges. 2004, p. 27 , accessed on February 27, 2011 (French, Sites des régions voisines du Diamaré mentionnées dans le texte (No. 10 in the map of the sites in Tchad)).
↑ Scott MacEachern: You Customer: Processes of montagnard ethno genesis in the northern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon . Ed .: University of Calgury. London 2003, ISBN 0-9544730-1-9 , Neighboring Regions: Mdaga, pp. 169-175 .

[Lagekarte-1] Olivier Langlois: Distributions ancienne et actuelle des décors imprimés au Diamaré (North Cameroun) et à ses marges. 2004, p. 27 , accessed on February 27, 2011 (French, Sites des régions voisines du Diamaré mentionnées dans le texte (No. 10 in the map of the sites in Tchad)).

[zusammenfassung-2] Scott MacEachern: You Customer: Processes of montagnard ethno genesis in the northern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon . Ed .: University of Calgury. London 2003, ISBN 0-9544730-1-9 , Neighboring Regions: Mdaga, pp. 169-175 .