Books/Monographs:

1980 Prehistoric Investigations in the Region of Jenne, Mali. Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, Number 2 (Oxford: B.A.R.), 541 pp., 2 vols. (with S.K.McIntosh)

1996 Plundering Africa's Past, Bloomington: Indiana University Press and London: John Currie, 280 pp. (edited with Peter R. Schmidt)

1998 The Peoples of the Middle Niger. Island of Gold.
(Blackwell Peoples of the World). Oxford: Blackwell , 346pp.

2000 The Way the Wind Blows: Climate, History, and Human Action
New York: Columbia University Press (Historical Ecology Series). (edited with J. Tainter and S.K. McIntosh)

2005 Geomorphology and Human Palaeoecology of the Méma, Mali.
edited by Edwin DeVries, Albertus Makaske, Roderick J. McIntosh and Joseph Tainter. Wageningen: Alterra.

2005 Ancient Middle Niger. Urbanism and the Self-Organizing Landscape.
(Case Studies in Early Society Series)(series editor Rita Wright) Cambridge University Press.

2006 Climates of the Mande. Special segment of MANDE STUDIES. Volume no. 6. Edited by Roderick J. McIntosh and Joseph Tainter.

All other publications:

1974 "Archaeology and mud wall decay in a West African village", World Archaeology. 6:154-171

1976a "Square huts in round concepts: prediction of settlement features in West Africa", Archaeology. 29:92-101

1976b "New radiocarbon dates for northern and western Africa", Journal of African History. 17:161-195 (with M.Posnansky)

1976c "Finding lost walls on archaeological sites -- the Hani model", Sankofa. 2:45-54

1977a "Excavation and survey in and near Djenne, Mali", Nyame Akuma. 10:36-37 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1977b "The excavation of mud structures: an experiment from West Africa", World Archaeology. 9:185-199

1979a "Initial perspectives on prehistoric subsistence in the Inland Niger Delta (Mali)", World Archaeology. 11:227-243 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1979b "Terracotta statuettes from Mali", African Arts. 12:51-53, 91 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1980b "Jenne-jeno: an ancient African city", Archaeology. 33:8-14 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1980c "Excavation and survey at Djenne-djeno, Mali: preliminary results of the 1977 field season", In (ed.) R.E.F.Leakey, Proceedings of the Eighth Panafrican congress of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies. pp. 369-372 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1980d "The 1979 season at the Governor Frederick Bates Estate, Thornhill, St. Louis County", Newsletter of the Missouri Archaeological Society. 341:1-6

1980e "Jenne-jeno: ancient African city", The Times of London. September 1, 1980: 14 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1980f “Jenne-jeno, An ancient African city”. Brochure for the Jenne-jeno site museum published by National Geographic Society.

1980g "Confronting cultural remains", Review of Living Archaeology, by R.A.Gould, Science. 210 (4474):1117-1118

1981a "The Inland Niger Delta before the Empire of Mali: Evidence from Jenne-jeno", Journal of African History. 22:1-22 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1981b "West African prehistory", American Scientist. 69:602-613 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1982a "Finding West Africa's oldest city", National Geographic Magazine. 162:396-418 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1982b "The 1981 season at Jenne-jeno: preliminary results", Nyame Akuma. 20:28-32 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1982c Review of Symbols in Action: Ethnoarchaeological Studies in Material Culture, by Ian Hodder, Archaeology. 35:75

1983a "Current directions in West African prehistory", Annual Review of Anthropology. 12:215-258 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1983b "Forgotten tells of Mali: New evidence of urban beginnings in West Africa", Expedition. 25(2):35-46 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1983c "Floodplain geomorphology and human occupation of the upper Inland Delta of the Niger", Geographical Journal. 149:182-201

1983d "Djenné-jeno, Cité sans citadelle", La Recherche. 148:1272-1275 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1983e "Pompei de l"Afrique Noire", GEO (France). 47:36-51 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1983f "The secrets of ancient Jenne", Topic. 144:20-31 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1983 g "Une civilisation urbaine pré-islamique au sud du Sahara", Afrique Histoire. 7:27-31 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1983h "Nel Mali vienne alla luce una 'Pompei' africana", Atlante (Italy). May 1983:18-31 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1983i Island of Gold: Archaeology of an Early African City. Photographic Exhibition at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, June 17-September 25, 1983 (61,666 attended) (with S.K.McIntosh and H.W.Haskell)

1984a "The early city in West Africa: Towards an understanding", African Archaeological Review. 2:73-98 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1984b "Early Iron Age economy in the Inland Niger Delta (Mali)", In (eds.) J.D.Clark and S.A.Brandt, From Hunters to Farmers. (University of California Press), pp.158-172 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1984c "Prospection archéologique aux alentours de Tombouctou, 1984. Rapport préliminaire", Nyame Akuma. 24/25: 5-12 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1984d "Les secrets de l'ancienne Djenné", Topic (français). 144:20-31 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1984e "West Africa's oldest metropolis", The UNESCO Courier. May 1984:12-13

1984f Review of La Poterie Ancienne du Mali by B. de Grunne, African Arts. 17:20-22

1985a "Archéologie et histoire de l'art africain", Grand Atlas de l'Archéologie. Encyclopaedia Universalis (France) (with S.K.McIntosh), 312-313

1985b CA* Comment on "Archaeological implications of traditional house construction among the Nchumuru ", by E.K. Agorsah. Current Anthropology. 26(1985): 111

1985c "A pre-Islamic urban civilization south of the Sahara". Afrique Histoire U.S. 2(3):18-22 (translation of 1983g)

1985d "Timbuktu's emergence in 'Deep Sahelian' civilizations", Papers of the 1985 Annual Meeting, A.S.A. 85(no. 86):1-8

1985e Review of The Present Past, An Introduction to Anthropology for Archaeologists by Ian Hodder. Archaeology. 38:68

1986a "Recent archaeological research and dates from West Africa", Journal of African History 27:413-442 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1986b "Archaeological reconnaissance in the region of Timbuktu, Mali", National Geographic Research 2(3):302-19 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1986c "Dilettantism and plunder: dimensions of the illicit traffic in ancient Malian art", UNESCO Museum 149:49-57 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1986d “Dilettantisme et pillage: trafic illicite d’objets d’art anciens du Mali”, UNESCO Museum 149:49-57 (with S.K.McIntosh)(translation of 1986c).

1986e “Diletantismo y pillaje: el tráfico ilícito del arte maliense antiguo”, UNESCO Museum 149:49-57 (with S.K.McIntosh)(translation of 1986c).

1986f Dig We Must: Island of Gold. Photographic Exhibition at the Sewall Gallery, Rice University, January 31-February 28 (882 attended) (with S.K.McIntosh)

1986g Review of African Archaeology by David Phillipson. Journal of African History . 27:173-175

1987a "Late prehistoric fluvial trends and settlement in the Middle Niger (Mali)", in (ed.) N.Petit-Maire, Past and Future Evolution of Deserts, Annual Report of the International Geological Correlation Programme (Project 252) IUGS: IGCP, p. 74

1987b "Prospection archéologique aux alentours de Dia, Mali, 1986/1987", Nyame Akuma (with SKMcIntosh). 29: 42-45

1987c "Ancient terracottas before the Symplegades gateway", Papers of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting , African Studies Association. 87: number 52

1988a "From siècles obscurs to revolutionary centuries in the Middle Niger", World Archaeology. (with SKMcIntosh). 20(1): 141-65

1988b " From stone to metal: new perspectives on the later prehistory of West Africa", Journal of World Prehistory (with SKMcIntosh). 2(1): 89-133

1988c Review of L'Art Rupestre Préhistorique des Massifs Centraux Sahariens, by A.Muzzolini. African Arts 21(3):80-81

1988d "Frail rumour of they Timbuctoo? Reinventing a Romantic Prehistory", Working Paper #17, Center for the Study of Institutions and Values, Rice University, 57 pp.

1989a "Archaeology of the peoples without history", Archaeology 42 (1)(1989): 74-80, 107 (with S.K.McIntosh & T.Togola)

1989b "Ancient terracottas before the Symplegades gateway", African Arts 22(2)(1989): 74-83, 103-104

1989c "Early urban clusters. arbitrating social ambiguity", in (eds.) N.Al Sayyad & J-P. Bourdier. Approaches to the Study of Traditional Dwellings and Settlement . IASTE Papers, Vol. 4, Berkeley: Center for Environmental Design Research. p. 17-44

1991a "Early urban clusters in China and Africa: The arbitration of social ambiguity", Journal of Field Archaeology 18: 199-212

1991b "Reconnaissances archéologiques le long du Moyen-Niger", in (eds.) M.Raimbault and K.Sanogo. Recherches archéologiques au Mali. Les Sites Protohistoriques de la Zone Lacustre. Paris: Karthala (with S.K. McIntosh). pp. 99-120

1991c "Resolved: To act for Africa's historical and cultural patrimony", African Arts. 24(1): 18-22, 89

1992a "From traditional African art to the archaeology of form in the Middle Niger", in (ed.) G. Pezzoli. Dall'Archeologia all'Arte Tradizionale Africana. Milan: Centre Studi Archeologi Africana pp. 145-151

1992b "New Oxford University policy on TL authentication services", African Arts 25(4): 103

1992c "The Middle Senegal Valley Project: preliminary results from the 1990-1991 field season", Nyame Akuma 38: 47-61 (with S.K. McIntosh and H. Bocoum)

1993a "The Pulse Theory: Genesis and accommodation of specialization in the Middle Niger", Journal of African History. 34 (2): 181-220

1993b "Cities without citadels: Understanding urban origins along the Middle Niger", In (eds.) T.Shaw, P.Sinclair, B.Andah, and A.Okpoko, The Archaeology of Africa. Foods, Metals and Towns. London: Routledge. pp. 622-41 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1993c "Field survey in the tumulus zone of Senegal", The African Archaeological Review. 11: 73-107 (with S.K. McIntosh)

1993d "Les prospections d'après les photos aeriennes: régions de Jenné et Tombouctou", in. Vallées du Niger. Catalogue Scientifique. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, pp. 234-48 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1993e "La politique et le commerce dans le Delta Intérieur du Niger à l'Age du fer", In (ed.) B.Andah, P. de Maret and R. Soper. Proceedings of the Ninth Congress of the Panafrican Association of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies. Lagos: Rex Charles. pp. 203-7 (with S.K.McIntosh).

1993f Review of Hamdallahi, Capitale de l'Empire Peul du Massina, Mali. Première Fouille Archéologique, Etudes Historiques et Ethnoarchéologiques. By Alain Gallay, Eric Huysecom, Matthieu Honegger, and Anne Mayor, Journal of African History, 34 (2): 325-26.

1994a "A la recherche du diagramme fondateur de la Djenné préhistorique" (Search for the founding diagram of prehistoric Djenné), in (ed.) Rogier M.A.Bedaux and J.D. van der Waals. DJENNE, Mooiste Stad van Afrika. (Djenné. Une Ville Millénaire au Mali). Leiden: Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, pp. 54-63. (with S.K. McIntosh)

1994b "Plight of ancient Jenne", Archaeology 47 (3): 32-33

1994c "Genius of the Beni". Review of the museum exhibition, Benin: Royal Art of Africa, Archaeology 47 (3): 53-55

1995a&b In Excavations at Jenne-jeno, Hambarketolo and Kaniana: The 1981 Season. Susan Keech McIntosh, editor, University of California Monographs in Anthropology. Berkeley: University of California Press
Ch. 1. "Background to the 1981 Research", pp. 1-26 (with S.K.McIntosh)
Ch. 2. "Stratigraphy, Features and Chronology", pp. 27-129 (with S.K.McIntosh)

1995c "The Good Collector and the premise of mutual respect among nations", African Arts. 28 (4): 60-69, 110-112 (with T.Togola and S.K.McIntosh).

1995d Jenne-jeno, An African Civilisation under Siege. Photographic exhibition as a part of the exhibition, Africa: The Art of a Continent. Royal Academy of Arts. London (Opened 2 Oct.)

1995e Jenne-jeno, An Ancient African City; Jenné-jeno, Une Ancienne Cité Africaine . Brochure published by the National Geographic Society. (with SKMcIntosh) (20 pp.)

1995f "Eveiller la fierté populaire: Une communauté malienne affronte les trafiquants en art du passé (The shield of public pride. A Malian community confronts traffickers in its past)", in ICOM (Conseil International des Musées) Illicit Traffic of Cultural Property in Africa .Paris: UNESCO-ICOM. pp. 239-244.

1995g "La réduction directe et ses rapports avec l'environnement dans la moyenne vallée du fleuve Sénégal, des origins au XVIe siècle. In (ed.) Stanislau Tomas i Morera. La Farga Catalana en el Maroc de l'Arqueologica Siderurgica. Andorra: Ministry of Social and Cultural Affairs. pp. 491-501. (with H.Bocoum & S.K.McIntosh)

1995h "Research strategies, topics and African heritage" in (ed.) F.Hassan. The future of African archaeology, The African Archaeological Review. 13 (1): 11-15

1995i "Western Africa to 600 CE", In (eds) Mary Beth Norton and Pamela Gerardi. Guide to Historical Literature. American Historical Association. (3rd Edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 573-574

1995j "Empire of Mali", Encartra '95 Encyclopaedia (Microsoft Inc.).

1996 a & b Plundering Africa's Past . (ed.with Peter R. Schmidt), Bloomington: Indiana University Press and London: John Currie, 280 pp.
Chapters;
"The African past endangered", pp. 1-17 (with P.Schmidt)
"Just say shame: Excising the rot of cultural genocide", pp. 45-62.

1996c "Exploratory archaeology at Jenne and Jenne-jeno, Mali", Sahara . 8: 19-28 (with Paul Sinclair, Téréba Togola, Michale Petrèn, and Susan Keech McIntosh)

1996 d & e In (ed.) Brian Fagan. The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Entries:
"Intellectual history of archaeology", pp. 280-285
"West African savanna kingdoms: Introduction", pp. 748-750 (with SKM)

1996f "Middle Niger cultures", in (eds.) J.S.Turner. The Dictionary of Art . London: Grove Press, Vol. 21, pp. 478-82 (with S.K.McIntosh).

1996g "Two shield Mali's Past", In (ed.) G.Pwiti and R. Soper. Aspects of African Archaeology. Papers from the Tenth Congress of the Panafrican Association of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies. (Harare: University of Zimbabwe Press), pp. 787-793.

1996h "People without history", in (ed.) Karen D. Vitelli. Archaeological Ethics (Walnut Creek: Altimira Press), pp. 185-197.

1996i Le siege de l'art africaine. Jenné-jeno: une ancienne civilisation africaine menacée. Photographic panel exhibition, Opened 14 May at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Bamako; At exhibition closing, became permanent gift to Institut des Sciences Humaines and Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
Regional Openings: 16 December 1996, Jenne (Mopti Region)

1997a "Mali's many shields of its past", Non-Renewable Resources . 6 (4): 111-129 (with Boubacar Diaby and Téréba Togola)

1997b "Agricultural beginnings in Sub-Saharan Africa" in (ed.) Joseph O. Vogel. Encyclopaedia of Precolonial Africa . Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press. pp. 409-418.

1997c&d Chapters in (ed.) John Middleton. The Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa . New York: Simon & Schuster.
"History of Africa to the Seventh Century", Vol. 2, pp. 311-318
"Jenne and the Saharan Borderlands", Vol. 2, pp. 405-410

1997e "A civilization under siege", US / ICOMOS Newsletter (U.S. Committee, International Council on Monuments and Sites). Special Issue Newsletter, No. 1 January/February 1997: 2-4 (with S.K.McIntosh, Téréba Togola, and Boubacar Diaby)

1997f "Saharan climates", Review of Climats anciens du Nord de l'Afrique by Robert Vernet, Journal of African History 38 (1): 148-149.

1997g "Recherche et sauveguarde à Djenné-Djeno, la campagne 1996-1997", Djenné Patrimoire Informations, No. 3, July 1997, pp. 5-6.

1998b "Riddle of Great Zimbabwe", Archaeology . 51 (4) (July/August): 44-49, 72.

1998c Une Journée d'Archéologie à Djenné-djeno, 30pp. (with N.Coulibaly, T.Togola, B.Kiabou, and S.K.McIntosh) (Privately published brochure for the Malian public)

1999a "Western representations of urbanism and invisible African towns", in (ed.) S.K.McIntosh, Beyond Chiefdoms. Pathways to Complexity in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 56-65.

1999b "Clustered cities of the Middle Niger: Alternative Routes to authority in prehistory", In (eds.) David M. Anderson and Richard Rathbone. Africa's Urban Past . London: James Currey and New York: Heinemann. pp. 19-35.

1999c "Clustered cities and alternative courses to authority in prehistory", Journal of East Asian Archaeology 1(1): 1-24

1999d "Africa's storied past. Once a "People Without History," Africans explore a vibrant precolonial landscape"", Archaeology . 52 (4): 54-60, 83

1999e "Listening to the mill. Growing up in the shadow of 'The Steel'", Archaeology . 52 (6)(1999): 54-56.

1999f "L'origine de Djenné, d'après les traces archéologiques", in (ed.) Joseph Brunet-Jailly, DJENNE , d'Hier à Demain, Bamako: Editions Donniya. pp. 13-26

1999g "Nouvelle campagne de fouilles à Djenné", Djenné Patrimoine. Informations . 6: 6-7

2000a&b The Way the Wind Blows: Climate, History, and Human Action New York: Columbia University Press (Historical Ecology Series). (edited with J. Tainter and S.K. McIntosh)
"Climate, History and Human Action (Introduction)" pp. 1-42 (with J. Tainter and S.K. McIntosh)
"The Mande weather machine" pp. 141-180.

2000c "Jenné-jeno: Island of Gold" Permanent museum exhibition at the Musée du Site Jenné-jeno, Mission Culturelle de Djenné, Djenné, Mali

2000d "L'Age du fer dans la Moyenne Vallée du Sénégal", Notes Africaines 196: 9-18 (with Hamady Bocoum & S.K.McIntosh)

2000e "Climate, history and human action", Earth Affairs November 2000: (3pp)(with J.Tainter and S.K.McIntosh)

2001 "Francophone Africa" (Archaeological research in) , in (ed.) Tim Murray. Editor. Encyclopaedia of Archaeology. History and Discoveries. Vol. I., pp. 21-35; Santa Barbara, CA: ABC CLIO.

2002 "Africa. Cause for Despair. Cause for Hope", Art, Antiquity, and Law 7(3): 291-300

2003a “Early urban configurations on the Middle Niger: Clustered cities and landscapes of power”. In (ed.) Monica L. Smith. The Social Construction of Ancient Cities (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press), pp. 103-20. (with S.K.McIntosh)

2003b “Climate change and population: history”, in (eds.) Paul Demeny and Geoffrey McNicoll, The Encyclopedia of Population . Vol. 1 (New York: Macmillan Reference). pp. 144-9.

2003c “Tobacco pipes from excavations at the Museum Site, Jenne, Mali”. Journal of African Archaeology. 1(2): 171-99 (with Susan Keech McIntosh and Daphne Gallagher).

2003d “The historical ecology of arid lands”, Review of (eds.) Graeme Barker and David Gilbertson. The Archaeology of Drylands: Living at the Margins. Journal of African History. 44(3): 511-13.

2004a "Africa. Cause for Despair. Cause for Hope", in (eds. A. St. Clair and P. O'Keefe), Art, Antiquity and the Law: Preserving Our Global Cultural Heritage. (The Institute of Art and Law and Rutgers University Press), pp.

2004b “Social Memory: Reservoir of human responses to environmental changes”. ”. In Aguirre-Bravo, Celedonio, et al. (eds.). Monitoring Science and Technology: Unifying Knowledge for Sustainability in the Western Hemisphere. Proceedings RMRS-P-OOO. (Ogden, UT: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station)(on-line).

2004c “Results of recent excavations at Jenné-jeno and Djenné, Mali”, Proceedings of the Bamako Panafrican Congress of Prehistory and Related Studies. edited by K.Sanogo and T. Togola. (with Susan Keech McIntosh), pp. 469-81

2005b&c Geomorphology and Human Palaeoecology of the Méma, Mali. edited by Edwin DeVries, Albertus Makaske, Roderick J. McIntosh and Joseph Tainter. Wageningen: Alterra.
Ch. 4. Prior Knowledge: Previously known sites and their interpretation
Ch. 5. Pulse of the Méma: Deep-time risk strategies

2005d Review of Vallée de l’Azawagh (Sahara du Niger). By Edmond Bernus, Patrice Cressier, Alain Durand, François Paris, and Jean-François Saliège, in Journal of African History. Pp. 333-35.

2006a,b,c Climates of the Mande. Special Segment of MANDE STUDIES. Volume no. 6.
Ch. 1. Why Mande palaeoclimates matter (with Joseph Tainter)
Ch. 2. Chasing Dunjugu over the Mande Landscape: Making sense of
prehistoric and historic climate change
Ch. 5. Two thousand years of niche specialization and ecological resilience
in the Middle Niger