Komé to Ebomé: Archaeological research for the Chad Export Project, 1999-2003
Komé to Ebomé: Archaeological research for the Chad Export Project, 1999-2003
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科美到埃博梅：乍得出口项目的考古研究，1999-2003 年
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2005
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Jean Mbairo
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S. MacEachern;Tchago Bouimon;P. Lavachery;Bienvenu Gouem Gouem;Pierre Kinyock;Olivier Nkonkonda;Jean Mbairo
在过去五年中，根据乍得和喀麦隆两国政府、世界银行和一个国际石油公司财团之间的文化遗产管理协议，在乍得南部和喀麦隆进行了考古调查和挖掘。这些举措是作为乍得出口项目的一部分进行的，该项目涉及修建一条从乍得南部科姆到靠近埃博姆的喀麦隆大西洋海岸的输油管道。与该项目有关的考古学家的研究结果是，在一条1070公里长的横断面上对文化遗迹进行了定位和挖掘，部分穿过了以前很少进行研究的非洲地区。这份初步报告审查了这项研究的结果。主要成果包括：(1)在乍得和喀麦隆发现了470个遗址；(2)在喀麦隆南部发现了中晚全新世层序；(3)在喀麦隆南部大西洋海岸和Nanga Eboko之间的森林中发现了含有坑洞特征的遗址，面积比先前研究表明的更大；(4)发现了在喀麦隆东北部和乍得南部树木茂密的稀树草原环境中进行重大炼铁活动的证据。
Over the past five years, archaeological survey and excavation has been undertaken in southern Chad and Cameroon, as the result of a cultural heritage management agreement between the governments of the two countries, the World Bank and a consortium of international oil companies. These initiatives were undertaken as part of the Chad Export Project, which involved the construction of an oil pipeline from Kome in southern Chad to the Atlantic coast of Cameroon near Ebome. Research by archaeologists associated with the project has resulted in location and excavation of cultural remains along a 1070-kilometre transect, in part through regions of Africa where little research had previously been undertaken. This preliminary report examines the results of this research. Major results include: (1) the discovery of 470 sites in Chad and Cameroon; (2) the excavation of a mid- to late-Holocene stratified sequence in southern Cameroon; (3) the discovery of sites containing pit features in the forests of southern Cameroon between the Atlantic coast and Nanga Eboko, a larger area than had been indicated by previous research, and (4) the discovery of evidence for significant ironworking activity in the wooded savanna environments of northeastern Cameroon and southern Chad.