Oursi Hu-Beero - a house in medieval west africa
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- čas přidán 29. 09. 2022
- Thank you to FromNothing for hosting this collaboration.
Project Playlist:
• South of the Sahara
Thank you to Al-Muqaddimah for making the project intro.
Patreon for those who want to (and can afford to) throw a few dollars my way:
/ hiddenhistory
Twitter where I post African history related pictures:
/ hiddenhsty
~ Credits ~
Songs:
Kadialy Kouyate at SOAS, 2018
Earthquake - Justice Der
Out There - Hentzup
Magisches Blau (Remix)
In My Room - Justice Der
Sunsets - Aso
Cyanide - Justice Der
Latenite - Hentzup
Boketto - Sweeps
Images:
Image assets are made by me.
- Plan of Oursi Village, map of Mer D'Oursi, plan of Oursi Hu-Beero, and depictions of skeletons lifted from book.
- Map of West Africa in the 12th c. taken from FromNothing, The History of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai: Every Year: 200 BCE - 1901 CE.
Sources:
Pelzer, Christoph, et. al. Oursi Hu-beero: A Medieval House Complex in Burkina Faso, West Africa.
This book is free to download!
www.sidestone.com/books/oursi...
Video is educational in purpose, targeted towards those teenaged and up who are interested in archaeology, history and/or africa.
I always like your African archaeology videos and the storytelling element and animation just really brings all of it back to life. Well done, thanks again for partaking in this collaboration!
Missed your videos bro! Read about this mansion a while ago while debating someone who claimed Two storey structure didjt exist in west Africa. I didn't know it was burned down like that what a shame.
It's neat learning about aspects of African history that I was previously unfamiliar with!
Thank you! It's a slightly unconventional topic but I'm happy to have finally done a video on it.
The Kora music in the intro was well placed 👌🏿 Loving this series
You got a new sub, love this.
You should make videos on the Ethiopian-Adal War, it's such an underrated conflict
You're Channel should be bigger than it is. You put so much work into your stuff. It makes this CZcams Algorithm criminal that it glosses over the talented people.
Fascinating!
Just discovered this channel, after watching "Hometeam History" for several years, now a subscriber, keep them coming!
It's so awesome to learn something new about sub Saharan African history. Great video!
So you learned something new about "sub Saharan Africa", what have you learned about Africa?
@@slimpickens01 I learned that a good number of midieval sub Saharan African villages build their homes in complexes rather than separate buildings. Which is quite interesting.
Love the fact that you use drawings for the visuals. I subscribed :D
Just came across your channel. Instantly captivated!
He's back 🔥🔥🔥sooo good and so unique! You're just like HomeTeam History and From nothing
The African history trinity
Fantastic work as always! The way you describe the sights and sounds of daily life really makes for an immersive experience.
Question: Are there any publications you’d recommend for those looking to stay up to date on archaeological work in the Sahel specifically?
In terms of journals, I really don't have specific recommendations. The information is often published kind of sporadically in various ones from the Journal of African Archaeology to African Archaeological Review to World Archaeology to even random ones like Nature Communications. There was a nice website at african-archaeology.net that listed off recent archaeological finds, but for some reason the operators just removed it and a similar site, africanarchaeology.org/news, just doesn't update that often. Your best bet is to just look for things that interest you and research them.
@@hiddenhist Ah, i thought that'd probably be the case. Thanks for the reply and looking forward to your future projects.
Nice work man... Interesting topic and great production quality!
Such great storytelling and art, this video is amazing!
Welcome back, shared on Quora
Glad to see you back.😄
lol 6.66 thousand subscribers. Interesting video btw
Awesome video as always hidden 🙂
Imagine the home you will leave behind for history. There is a higher than 0 chance that someone, somehow, hundreds or thousands of years from now will stand in the center of the room you're in right now and piece together parts of your life for posterity.
What will they find? What did the mysterious you leave behind?
Excellent video btw is that an ngoni in the intro music
More west african content bro
Can you do battle of adwa?
Fantastic video, don't get me wrong, the visuals and content are amazing.
There is one issue. Too much sibilance, (the harsh P, S and C sounds) in your audio.
I don't know if you have tried to address this but ideally you should use a pop filter or at least a windbreak and ensure you are a hands width away from the microphone. You can also try adding equalisation during editing which will standardise your audio's frequency, most video editing software's should have something that does it automatically.
It may not have bothered others but I have misophonia.
Dont worry, I noticed when I played back the audio, and already had tried to reduce it. Most deessers also cause some other auditory downgrade though so I had to try to reach a balance between removing it all and not ruining the rest of the audio. Didn't have a pop filter when I did the audio which was months ago and certainly didn't have time to redo it once the issue became really apparent.
@@hiddenhist Well I applaud you for realising that it was an issue and it is also rather interesting seeing a little into your workflow! Good luck with further projects and hopefully the audio issue won't be too much of a problem.