This week, we’re starting a new #GroundingHeritage theme: #FoodStorage.we’re looking at serala, a Setswana term for a grain storage bin used in Botswana.
A serala provided temporary storage for grain while it awaited threshing.
#AfricanArchaeology #Botswana

🎤Coming soon on Monday, 9 March - featuring #GroundingHeritage

Join us on a journey through hundreds of archaeological features in Africa from the ground up.

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#GroundingHeritage #AfricanHeritage #Archaeology #Didyouknow #Featurethis

#GroundingHeritage takes us to Ethiopia’s mountains. The rock-hewn churches of Lalibela and fortified sites like Fasil Ghebbi reflect how defence, faith, and landscape intertwine in resilient heritage systems. #DefenceSystems #AfricanArchaeology #Ethiopia

Bara perimeter wall is one of several defensive earthworks associated with Oyo-Ile, the former capital of the Oyo Empire, southwestern Nigeria. The enclosure dates between c. AD 1620 and 1837 and formed part of the broader defensive landscape of the Oyo capital.

#GroundingHeritage #Didyouknow #Oyo

#GroundingHeritage - Kasongo-Tongoni (Old Kasongo) is a major 19th-century ivory and slave-trade hub in present-day #DRC, linked Central Africa to East African networks. #Archaeology reveals possible defensive features around merchant houses...

➡️ doi-org.uplib.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0067...

Tata structures in Senegal continued...

These defensive structures became widespread in Senegal and were central to the socio-political and economic interests of pre-colonial West African states. A prime example is the tata of Maba Diakhou Bâ.

#GroundingHeritage #Tata #SenegalArchaeology