Further reading

Amblard-Pison, S. Communautes Villageoises Neolithiques des Dhars Tichitt et Oulata (Mauritanie). Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2006.

Holl, A.F.C. ‘Background to the Ghana empire: archaeological investigations on the transition to statehood in the Dhar Tichitt region (Mauritania).' Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 4 (1985), 73-115.

‘Late Neolithic cultural landscape in southeastern Mauritania: an essay in spatiometrics.' In A.F.C. Holl and T.E. Levy (eds.), Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics: Case Studies from Food-Producing Societies. Ann Arbor, MI: International Monographs in Prehistory, 1993. 95-133.

MacDonald, K.C. ‘Before the empire of Ghana: pastoralism and the origins of cultural complexity in the Sahel.' In G. Connah (ed.), Transformations in Africa: Essays on Africa's Later Past. London: Leicester University Press, 1998. 71-103.

‘Betwixt Tichitt and the IND: the pottery of the Faita Facies, Tichitt tradition.' Azania, 46 (2011), 49-69.

‘Invisible pastoralists: an inquiry into the origins of nomadic pastoralism in the West African Sahel.' In C. Gosden and J. Hather (eds.), Prehistory of Food: Appetitesfor Change. London: Routledge, 1999. 333-49.

MacDonald, K.C., R. Vernet, M. Martinon-Torres, and D.Q. Fuller. ‘Dhar Nema: from early agriculture to metallurgy in southeastern Mauritania.' Azania, 44 (2009), 3-48.

Manning, K. ‘A developmental history for early West African agriculture.' In P. Allsworth- Jones (ed.), West African Archaeology: New Developments, New Perspectives. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2010. 43-52.

Munson, P.J. ‘Archaeological data on the origins of cultivation in the southwestern Sahara and their implications for West Africa.' InJ.R. Harlan, J.M.J. de Wet, and A.B. Stemler (eds.), Origins of African Plant Domestication. The Hague: Mouton, 1976. 187-209.

‘Archaeology and the prehistoric origins of the Ghana empire.' Journal of African History, 21 (1980), 457-66.

Ould Khattar, M. ‘Les sites Gangara, la fin de la culture de Tichitt et l'origine de Ghana.' Journal des Africanistes, 65 (1995), 31-41.

Vernet, R. Prehistoire de la Mauritanie. Nouakchott: Centre Culturel Franςais A. de Saint- Exupery; Paris: Sepia, 1993.