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Domestic life at Orile-Owu, Nigeria ( c. AD 1456–1661): an initial insight

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Daraojimba, Kingsley Chinedu  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2913-7441
Mangut, Macham  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2359-0539
Ojediran, Olumide  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6410-4941

Abstract

This study explores early domestic life at the historic Yoruba site of Orile-Owu. Excavations and ethnography reveal insights into diet and food processing, medicinal practices and the daily routines of occupants during the mid-fifteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries AD.

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Acknowledgements: We extend our gratitude to the Olowu of Owu, His Royal Majesty Oba Dauda Ajolola Akinfalabi III, the landowner Baba Theophilus Olutoye and our field assistants, Emmanuel Nwagbara and Oyeyemi Olarinde.


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Africa, household archaeology, medicinal herbs, Afin-Isale, Yoruba Kingdom, Owu

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Cambridge University Press

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https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.55

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