Tondidarou

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Tondidarou
Town
Tondidarou is located in Mali
Tondidarou
Tondidarou
Location in Mali
Coordinates: 16°0′43″N 4°06′52″W / 16.01194°N 4.11444°W / 16.01194; -4.11444Coordinates: 16°0′43″N 4°06′52″W / 16.01194°N 4.11444°W / 16.01194; -4.11444
Country Mali
RegionTombouctou Region
CercleNiafunké
Time zoneUTC+0 (GMT)

Tondidarou is a small town and megalithic archaeological site in Niafunké Cercle, Timbuktu Region, Mali, northwest of Niafunké, about 150 kilometres south-west of Timbuktu.[1] The site, located on the eastern bank of , was discovered by Jules Brévié in 1904 and is said to be "defined by three groups of stone megaliths", monoliths which are a "remarkable collection of phalliform stone monuments."[2][3] Ancient Egypt in Africa refers to the site as "Diop's 'Egypt-influenced' phalliform stone circle of Tondidarou".[4] Eugene Maes was the first to seriously document the stones at Tondidarou in 1924.[5] It was extensively excavated in around 1980.[6] The site is dated to 670 - 790 AD.

References[]

  1. ^ Mokhtar, G. (1981). General History of Africa: Ancient civilizations of Africa. UNESCO. p. 523. ISBN 978-92-3-101708-7. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
  2. ^ Sottas, Beat (1997). Forum suisse des africanistes. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 69. ISBN 978-3-8258-3506-4. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
  3. ^ Ki-Zerbo, Joseph (1981). General History of Africa: Methodology and African prehistory. UNESCO. p. 630. ISBN 978-92-3-101707-0. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
  4. ^ O'Connor, David; Reid, Andrew (August 2003). Ancient Egypt in Africa. Cavendish Publishing. p. 104. ISBN 978-1-84314-758-9. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
  5. ^ Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. National Museum of African Art Branch (1989). The arts of Africa: an annotated bibliography. African Studies Association. p. 128. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
  6. ^ Fage, J. D. (1 February 1979). The Cambridge History of Africa: From c. 500 B.C. to A.D. 1050. Cambridge University Press. p. 341. ISBN 978-0-521-21592-3. Retrieved 12 July 2012.

Further reading[]

  • Saliege, JF, Person, A., Barry, I. and Fontes, P. (1980) 'Premieres datations de tumulus pre- islamiques au Mali: site mcgalithiquc de Tondidarou', Comptes rendus de /' Academic des Sciences, 291 (D), 12, pp. 981–4.


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