The Djenné-Djenno urban sequence
- Date of account
- Occupation approximately 250 BCE–900 CE, with later regional developments
- Location
- Near modern Djenné, Mopti Region
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Excavations at Djenné-Djenno documented a substantial Inland Niger Delta settlement beginning in the first millennium BCE, with mud architecture, craft production, terracotta figures and evidence of regional exchange. Susan and Roderick McIntosh used the site to challenge models that made cities and complex economies dependent on external colonization or Islamic influence. The lead is valuable for comparing decentralized urbanism, floodplain adaptation and craft specialization. Debate continues over political integration, links among settlement mounds and how later Islamic-period histories should be related to earlier occupations.
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