Ibrahima Thiaw, List of Publications

In Press: Atlantic commerce and merchant’s community in Ouidah. A Review of Robin Law, Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving ‘port’ 1727-1892.
International Review of Social History

In Press: Every house has a story: the archaeology of Gorée island, Sénégal. Presented at the Sephis south-south workshop on the trans-atlantic construction of the notions of “race”, black culture, blackness and antiracism. 11-17 November 2001, Gorée Island, Senegal.
Africa World Press.

In Press: Archaeomagnetic dating in the Middle Senegal Valley. (with Tom Gray). R.J. McIntosh, S.K. McIntosh, and H. Bocoum (editors), Archaeological Investigations in the Middle Senegal Valley, Oxford: BAR.

In Press: Archaeological Research in the western lower Falemme and Culture Interaction in the Senegal River Basin AD 400-1900. Oxford: BAR

In Press: Atlantic Impact on Inland Senegambia: French Penetration and African Initiatives in Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries Gajaaga and Bundu. In C.R. Decorse (Editor), Rivers of the African Past: Studies in Historical Archaeology. Special issue of Historical Archaeology.

2005: Book Review: “Dictionnaire Archéologique de la Mauritanie” Journal of African Archaeology, Vol. 3 (1) : 161-162.

2005: The Archaeology of Memory and Identity on Goree Island, Senegal. IFAN brochure, 14p. IFAN-Dakar.

2005: Faire Savoir les Savoir-Faire. Brochure exposition IFAN, 22p. IFAN-Dakar.

2003: Archaeology and the public in Senegal: Reflections on doing fieldwork at home.Journal of African Archaeology, Vol. 1 (2): 27-35.

2003: Toward a Systematic Bead Description System: A View from the Lower Falemme, Senegal" With C.R. Decorse and F. Richard. Journal of African Archaeology, 1 (1): 81-105.

2003: The Gorée Archaeological Project (GAP): Preliminary results. Nyame Akuma 60: 27-35.

2003: The Gorée Archaeological Project (GAP): Material things and the use of space in plural settings. Sephis Newsletter, 8: 10-14.

2002: Appendix V: Analysis of Faunal Remains from Sincu Bara. In S. McIntosh and H. Bocoum (eds.), Fouilles à Sincu Bara, Moyenne Vallée du Sénégal. CRIAA-IFAN, pp. 183-189.

2001: Tools for Understanding Transformation and Continuity in Senegambian Society: 1500-1900. With S.K. McIntosh. In Decorse C.R. (editor), West Africa During the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeological Perspectives. Leicester University Press, pp 14–37.

2000: L'Impact de la Traite des Noirs dans le Haut Fleuve du Senegal: Archéologie des Intéractions Afro-Européennes dans le Gajaaga et le Bundu au 18è et 19è siècles. In Samb D. (Editor), Saint-Louis et l’esclavage. Actes du Symposium international sur « la traite négrière à Saint-Louis du Sénégal et dans son arrière-pays » (Saint-Louis, 18,19 et 20 décembre 1998.) p.129-137.

1999: An Archeological Investigation of long-term Culture Change in the Lower Falemme (Upper Senegal Region) AD 500-1900. Ph.D. Dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Rice University.

1998: The Built Environment and the Expansion of Social Dependence in Eighteenth-Nineteenth Century Inland Senegambia (Upper Senegal River). Society of Historical Archaeology Newsletter, 31 (4): 28.

1998: The Impact of French Penetration in the Upper Senegal: Preliminary results. Paper presented at the 14th Biennial of the Society of the Africanist Archaeologists, Syracuse University, May 20-24, 1998.

1996: A First Millennium AD Secular Variation Curve for the Middle Senegal Valley. Paper presented at the 61st Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, April-May. New Orleans, Louisiana.

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