Mauritania Culture History and Archaeology

Iron Smelting in Mauritania
A page at the Museum of Ethnography at Neuchâtel website, on Jean Gabon's ethnoarchaeological studies of iron smelting in Mauritania, and discussion of the collections at the museum. In French.

MEN: Mauritania
From the Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel, a history of the ethnographic collections in the Museum from Mauritania. In French.

Kumbi Saleh
The Iron Age archaeological site of Kumbi Saleh was built by the west African Soninke society about AD 600, and was probably used as a capital city for the Ghana empire.

Tegdaoust
The archaeological site of Tegdaoust is a Berber site in Mauritania, and probably represents the historical town called Awdaghost, a site on the crucial caravan trade network in Saharan Africa during the 9th century AD.

Dhar Tichitt (Mauritania)
Dhar Tichitt is the name of a group of villages located along the edge of a limestone cliff in south central Mauritania from between 2000-800 BC.