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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Pearl Millet and Kintampo Subsistence |
Authors: | D'Andrea, A.C. Casey, J. |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | African Archaeological Review |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | September |
Pages: | 147-173 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | millet prehistory Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Anthropology and Archaeology |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016518919072 |
Abstract: | Subsistence practices of the Kintampo cultural complex of sub-Saharan West Africa are now known to have included pearl millet cultivation, in addition to the utilization of tropical forest margin species such as oil palm. Charred plant remains recovered from the Birimi site, northern Ghana, suggest that the growing of pearl millet, possibly in uniform stands, was occurring amongst northerly Kintampo groups during the fourth millennium bp. The cultivation of this drought-tolerant crop facilitated the establishment of sedentary villages by providing a storable food resource enabling Kintampo people to survive the protracted dry season of the West African savanna. Bibliogr., sum. in French and English. [Journal abstract] |