The So Pots of Central Africa: Memories of the past

by Graham Connah

African Archaeology, Volume 91

This book is an original study of very large pots in parts of Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria. Found in excavations and surface fieldwork, they have been attributed to the So, a group of pre-Islamic inhabitants of the area before the sixteenth century AD, who have become mythologised as giants. Originally for burial, in some cases the pots have been dug up by villagers and reused: for brewing beer or as dye pits...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1407316885
• ISBN13: 9781407316888
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 11.7"