Toloy

Toloy is the name given to the first occupants[1] identified from the Bandiagara Escarpment, in Mali, a region today known to be Dogon country. .

Toloy Housing now abandoned in the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali.

Their name comes from the rocky channel located near Sangha where the remains of this population were found such as granaries, skeletons remains, pottery and plants.

Carbon-14 dating date these remnants possibly of 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.[1][2][3]

The architecture of their granaries is quite specific to the area. They are formed of superimposed clay strands. This contrasts with the mud bricks used by the Tellem people occupying the Bandiagara cliff around the 11th and 16th century,[4] or the dry stones covered with mud by the Dogons since 15th century.

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References
  1. Bedaux, Rogier Michiel Alphons, « Tellem, reconnaissance archéologique d'une culture de l'Ouest africain au Moyen Âge : recherches architectoniques », Journal de la Société des Africanistes (1974), #, p. 103–185 [in] Persée (retrieved March 15, 2020)
  2. photos & texte : Huib Blom, esquisses : Arian & Anneke Blom, p.2 (PDF) dogon-lobi.ch (retrieved March 15, 2020)
  3. Haour, Anne; Manning, K.; Arazi, N.; Gosselain, O.; African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present: Techniques, Identification and Distribution, Oxbow Books (2010), p. 3, ISBN 9781842178737 (retrieved March 15, 2020)
  4. Tarlow, Sarah; Stutz, Liv Nilsson; The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial (Oxford Handbooks in Archaeology), OUP Oxford (2013), p. 214, ISBN 9780199569069 (retrieved March 15, 2020)


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