Akin Ogundiran
Akin Ogundiran
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Selected Articles and Essays

“Methodological Protocols for Understanding Decomposed Mud Wall Residential Structures in Oyo-Ile (C. 1570–1837), Nigeria.” South African Archaeological Bulletin 76, 214 (2021): 43–56, with O. Moyib, K. C. Daraojimba, & E. Adeara.

“The Archaeology of Alaafin’s Legacy and Heritage.” In Oyo: History Tradition and Royalty: Essays in Honour of His Imperial Majesty, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba (Dr.) Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, S. Oyeweso and O. C. Adesina, eds. (Ibadan University Press, 2021), pp. 163-191.

“Managing Epidemics in Ancestral Yorùbá Towns and Cities: Sacred Groves as Isolation Sites,” African Archaeological Review, 37, 3 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-020-09407-5.

“Spatial Simulation Modeling of Settlement Distribution Driven by Random Forest: Consideration of Landscape Visibility.” Sustanability, 12 (2020). doi:10.3390/su12114748, with Zheng, M., Tang, and J. Yang.

“Parallel Landscape Visibility Analysis: A Case Study in Archaeology.” In High Performance Computing for Geospatial Applications, W. Tang & S. Wang, eds. (New York: Springer, 2020), pp. 77-96, with Zheng, M., W. Tang, T. Chen, J. Yang.

“The Archaeological Landscape of Bara, near Oyo-Ile.” West African Journal of Archaeology 48 (2019),15-32, with M. Mangut and O. Moyib.

“Rituals and Economics of Regeneration.” Economic Anthropology 6 (2019): 153–156.

“Framing Local History with Global Archaeological Lenses in Osun Grove, Nigeria.” In Engaging Archaeological Research: Case Studies in Method, Theory, and Practice, Stephen Silliman, ed. (New York: Wiley Publishers, 2018), pp. 127-134.

“Colonial Modernity, Rituals, and Feasting in Oduduwa Grove, Ile-Ife,” Journal of African Archaeology 15 (2017), 1: 77-103, with A. Ogunfolakan

“Historical Ecology of Experience, Place, and Time in Osun-Osogbo Grove, Nigeria. In Human  Palaeoecology in Africa: Essays in Honour of M. Adebisi Sowunmi. P. A. Oyelaran, et al., eds. (Ibadan: Ibadan University Press, 2016), pp. 177-213.

“Movementality: a reflection on the experience of mobility.” Azania: Journal of Archaeological Research, 51, 4 (December 2016), pp. 534-9.

““A Multiplex Landscape: Explorations of Place and Practice in Osun Grove, Nigeria.” In Cultural Landscape Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa, John Beardsley, ed. (Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks), pp. 293-322.

“‘Our Ancestors Were Material Scientists’: Archaeological and Geochemical Evidence for Indigenous Yoruba Glass Technology”. Journal of Black Studies 46(8): 751-772 (co-authored with Akin Ige).

“The Making of an Internal Frontier Settlement: Archaeology and Historical Process in Osun  Grove (Nigeria), 17th–18th Centuries.” African Archaeological Review 31,1 (2014): 1-24.

“The Osun-Osogbo Grove as a Social Common and an Uncommon Ground: An Analysis of  Patrimonial Patronage in Postcolonial Nigeria.” International Journal of Cultural Property 21, 2 (2014): 173-198.

“Towns and States in Rainforest West Africa” in P. Mitchell and P. Lanes, eds., Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology (Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 855-869.

“The End of Prehistory?: An Africanist Comment,” The American Historical Review 118 (3): 788-801 (2013).

“Potters Marks and Social Relations of Ceramic Distribution in the Oyo Empire,” Azania: Journal of Archaeological Research, 46, 3 (November 2011), with Paula Saunders, pp. 317-335.

“Material Life and Domestic Economy in a Frontier of Oyo Empire during the Mid-Atlantic Age,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 43, 2 (2009), pp. 351-385.

“African Atlantic Archaeology and Africana Studies: A Programmatic Agenda,” The African Diaspora Archaeology Network Newsletter, June 2008: 1-25.

“Four Millenia of Cultural History in Nigeria (ca. 2000 B.C. – A.D. 1900): Archaelogical Perspectives,” Journal of World Prehistory 19, 2 (June 2005) 133-168.

“Chronology, Material Culture, and Pathways to the Cultural History of Yoruba-Edo Region, Nigeria, 500 B.C.-A.D. 1800,” in Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings, eds., Sources and Methods in African History: Spoken, Written, Unearthed. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, pp. 33-79 [Winner of a 2003 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title].

“Of Small Things Remembered: Beads, Cowries, and Cultural Translations of the Atlantic Experience in Yorubaland,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 35, (2002): 427-457.

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