Potsherd Pavements

[mellomusings]

This was something interesting I came across one day and thought it was pretty cool, I'm sure most people that hangout on ES or ESR are already familiar with this but if not...well here you go. It's all to often we hear that before the advent of European intervention in Africa, they lacked roads (however this is true for most parts of Africa) but contrary to popular belief Ill-Ife the Yoruba capital as well as the Hausa Kingdom of Kebbi's capital Surname, and if I'm not mistaken Jenne-Jeno possessed potsherd pavements. Although most of the research was conducted around Ill-Ife they were used to pave the streets of the capital and the courtyards of compounds. I thought this was really cool and wanted to share, sometimes it's the smaller things that give things more context.
www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://historum.com/middle-eastern-african-history/71640-potsherd-pavements-ile-ife.html&ved=2ahUKEwj43ozx8PLaAhWDzVMKHSdQCgsQFjAAegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw3noY_idrvzRGWNt1kXY637
www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://safa.rice.edu/Nyame_Akuma/NA_051-060/Nyame_Akuma_Issue_053-Article_07/&ved=2ahUKEwj43ozx8PLaAhWDzVMKHSdQCgsQFjACegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw38_w0GRJ3GcnxQaeRer9s3

[zarahan]

WHat do you have on the construction of the city, economy, trade, admin etc?

[mellomusings]

May 7, 2018 21:40:26 GMT -5 zarahan said:

WHat do you have on the construction of the city, economy, trade, admin etc?

Haven't really looked into that but I will get back to you after doing some digging around. But I'd assume that it was similar to the later Yoruba city-states since Ile-Ife was considered their cultural and spiritual capital.

[Tukuler al~Takruri]

Well at least the Met is coming round to not denigrating African accomplishment with degrading terms

The Metropolitan Museum of Art recognizes terracotta bricks ain't no damn haphazard broken pieces of pottery

metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pave/hd_pave.htm

Not to exhonorate the institution that put Anc Egypt in the Met but Africa's other blk cultures in the Museum of Natural History (roun de conna) with dinosaurs animals and shish