Within savanna and forest: A review of the Late Stone Age Kintampo Tradition, Ghana

dc.contributor.authorWatson, D.J.
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-26T11:47:07Z
dc.date.available2019-04-26T11:47:07Z
dc.date.issued2010-08
dc.description.abstractThe Kintampo Tradition (c. 3600-3200 BP) of Ghana is associated with the earliest manifestations of figurative art, personal adornment, semi-sedentary 'village' settlements and food production in the Late Stone Age (LSA) of the savanna-forest/forests of West Africa. Despite decades of research, fundamental questions regarding this tradition remain unresolved and discussion of it remains heavily structured by notions of diffusion or migration. This study synthesises the available data with a comprehensive comparative analysis of Kintampo material culture in order to explore and evaluate this tradition's temporal and spatial patterning, as well as theoretical issues regarding identity and the socioeconomic and technical practices associated with the appearance of food production. Available data evince the existence of a unique adaptation that confounds attempts to interpret it within traditional socio-economic categories such as 'Neolithic'. The Kintampo is recast here as a distinctive and durable archaeological tradition that constitutes the beginnings of food production in Sub-Sahelian West Africa. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2010.491361
dc.identifier.otherVolume 45, Issue 2,Pages 141-174
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/29605
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAzania Archaeological Research in Africaen_US
dc.subjectFood productionen_US
dc.subjectGhanaen_US
dc.subjectKintampo Traditionen_US
dc.subjectMaterial cultureen_US
dc.titleWithin savanna and forest: A review of the Late Stone Age Kintampo Tradition, Ghanaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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