Chapter 2. Ten years of geoarchaeological research in Dogon country (Mali, West Africa)

Introduction Since 1997, considerable archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research has taken place in the Ounjougou site-complex in the Yamé River Valley (Dogon country, Mali; Fig. 1), under the framework of the “Human populations and palaeoenvironment in West Africa” programme, coordinated by Eric Huysecom (University of Geneva). This research has enabled us to reconstruct the history of human settlement and its chronostratigraphic context for the entire Holocene (Huysecom, 2002; Huysecom...