DGB funnel mouth pots (watercolour by Owen Murray). Please note the hole-like mouth.

Research Projects

Current and planned research projects are presented in this section. Contributions for discussion are welcome.

Survey and excavation of old stone ruins found in the Mandara Mountains

The survey and excavation of a group of large and smaller precolonial stone structures started in 2001/02 as part of the Mandara Archaeological Project (University of Calgary). The ruins are found in several Mafa villages to the west of Koza, situated between 800m and 1200m on the most northern slopes of the Ziver-Oupay massif. The project began with studying and surveying the architecture of the ruins and will continue with excavating some of them in the next two years to come. The second field session followed in Oct-Dec 2002 and resulted in a successful excavation of two of the sites. The third field session explored the possible ethnohistorical connections with the "Godaliy" of the Gwoza hills.

Entrance area of DGB-1

Reconstruction of DGB-2 (drawing by Owen Murray)

Results of the third (2004) field session