I was responding to Ngozi who stated that the Dogon are 10000 years old. The narrator didnt say that. The narrator speculated that they were and then said that no one is certain. That is a far cry from The Dogon are 10000 years old. Secondly, any first year anthropology student knows that you cannot associate the present culture of people to a given area, with archaeological finds from a remote past. People migrate and abandon sites. The Sahara and Sahel are full of such sites. One could not associate the Dogon with this pottery, especially since in The Pale Fox and Conversations with Ogotemmeli, the Dogon say they recently migrated there, especially trying to avoid Islam. So the Dogon people arent the ones who created that Pottery. It is also an exercise of studying the whole picture. This site is alleged to be the oldest site in Africa for pottery. However, the invention of potter is 30,000 years old. Eurocentrists like to argue that all technology in Africa derives from Caucasians who (back) migrated into Africa, via the delta/Egypt and diffused their knowledge to the Africans. One could argue that the pottery was introduced to them via trade, and if so, these pottery shards came from the Middle East, which means it had to pass through Egypt first. The ongoing argument is that Egypt has nothing to do with the Africans in West Africa, and that is not the case by any stretch of the imagination. It is the fall of Egypt that causes West African civilizations to thrive, and ultimately is the reason for the slave trade. West Africans went to Egypt. Egyptians went to West Africa. When Egypt fell, the Egyptians scattered to West Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal), Central Africa (Congo, Angola) and East Africa (Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Mozambique). Their languages, culture and oral traditions confirm it. https://youtube/watch?v=zZnmOM057Rc
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 23:36:35 +0000
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