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Metal Detecting Finds in Mali

1 published discovery in the Artefacts category from Mali — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.

Artefacts from Mali

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Famous findFigures made about AD 1000 to 1400 · found 1977

The Jenné-jeno Terracottas: clay figures from an ancient West African city, and the looters who outran the archaeologists

Mali · ArtefactsFF 315

In 1977 archaeologists Roderick and Susan McIntosh began excavating Jenné-jeno in Mali, one of the oldest known cities in sub-Saharan Africa, where people made terracotta figures between about AD 1000 and 1400. Within a few years, looters digging for the art market were destroying the sites faster than they could be studied.