Excavation at Kormantin No. 1 in the Central Region of Ghana
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2015-12
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Ghana Social Science Journal
Abstract
Kormantin No. 1 lies on a hill approximately a kilometer north of Fort
Amsterdam, Abandze. It was home to the local population at the time when
Fort Amsterdam was occupied by the Dutch or the English from 1631
to1811. Excavation at Kormantin No. 1 has produced European,
Japanese and locally-manufactured pottery, gun flint, glass bottles and
beads, European smoking pipes, bricks and roofing tiles, metal objects,
animal bones and mollusc shells. The site dates from the mid-eighteenth to
the twentieth century, and the local pottery, similar to that excavated at
Fort Amsterdam and other Akan areas, includes vessel forms that are
regarded as indicators of Asante influence and presence on the coast.
Trade with Europeans is attested by imported finds, and the subsistence
economic lifestyle of the site's inhabitants as inferred from animal bones
and mollusc shells was similar to that of the Europeans and residents of
Fort Amsterdam who also depended on local resources for food.
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Ghana Social Science Journal, 12 (2), 35-81
Keywords
hill, local population, Dutch, English, Europeans