What is the architectural style of precolonial sub-Saharan African architecture?
Hi Collin, I won’t go into Sub-Saharan anything, Just African period, I see no reason for the continuing truncating of the continent, as if the regions weren’t linked and not influencing each other.
This thread we will explore some hidden and hiding in plain sight gems of unique African architecture and lost cities. The history of urbanization in Africa is extremely old, some of Africa's urbanization process were contemporary with what was taking place in the earliest phase of Mesopotamia how many here knew of the Soninke city of Dhar Titchitt-Walata.. 4000–2300 B.C in Western Africa an important historical site which gave rise to the later Sudanic complexes with which some of us are here might be familiar ,but as far as Dhar Titchitt is concern only the most ardent of African scholars knew of it's existence and yet it is hiding in plain sight.
As you should know there’s no one style for a continent supposedly approaching size of the surface of the moon,
Starting with the Ta-Seti which had the first pharaobrnic state on the Nile, their successor state outside of Egypt was Kerma.
Note the house of the Ta-Setian Pharoah of the predynastic with that of later Djoser of the 3rd dynasty.
Pyramids of Nuri.
The history of Kerma is in itself divided in several main settlement periods:
Pre-Kerma (c. 3500–2500 BC) No C-Group culture Phase
Early Kerma (c. 2500–2050 BC) C-Group Phase Ia–Ib
Middle Kerma (c. 2050–1750 BC) C-Group Phase Ib–IIa
Classic Kerma (c. 1750–1580 BC) C-Group Phase IIb–III
Final Kerma (c. 1580–1500 BC) C-Group Phase IIb–III Late Kerma – ‘New Kingdom’ (c.1500–1100? BC)
This thread we will explore some hidden and hiding in plain sight gems of unique African architecture and lost cities. The history of urbanization in Africa is extremely old, some of Africa's urbanization process were contemporary with what was taking place in the earliest phase of Mesopotamia how many here knew of the Soninke city of Dhar Titchitt-Walata.. 4000–2300 B.C in Western Africa an important historical site which gave rise to the later Sudanic complexes with which some of us are here might be familiar ,but as far as Dhar Titchitt is concern only the most ardent of African scholars knew of it's existence and yet it is hiding in plain sight.
As you should know there’s no one style for a continent supposedly approaching size of the surface of the moon,
Starting with the Ta-Seti which had the first pharaobrnic state on the Nile, their successor state outside of Egypt was Kerma.
Note the house of the Ta-Setian Pharoah of the predynastic with that of later Djoser of the 3rd dynasty.
The history of Kerma is in itself divided in several main settlement periods:
Pre-Kerma (c. 3500–2500 BC) No C-Group culture Phase
Early Kerma (c. 2500–2050 BC) C-Group Phase Ia–Ib
Middle Kerma (c. 2050–1750 BC) C-Group Phase Ib–IIa
Classic Kerma (c. 1750–1580 BC) C-Group Phase IIb–III
Final Kerma (c. 1580–1500 BC) C-Group Phase IIb–III Late Kerma – ‘New Kingdom’ (c.1500–1100? BC)
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