On tobacco pipes in Asante

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Title:	On tobacco pipes in Asante
Author:	Vivian, Brian
Year:	2005
Periodical:	Journal des africanistes
Volume:	75
Issue:	2
Pages:	86-95
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Ghana
Subjects:	smoking pipes Ashanti
Abstract:	Tobacco pipes are some of the most decorative and temporally diagnostic artifacts found on Iron Age sites in Ghana. The temporally sensitive nature of these items is demonstrated by the success of the initial pipe seriation Paul Ozanne developed in an unpublished manuscript in 1962. Subsequently archaeologists have continued to utilize this seriation and rely on pipes as index fossils in identifying the temporal affiliations of late period sites throughout Ghana. Fewer researchers have attempted to refine the seriation and define more regional pipe types. A review of recent finds from Ashanti Region indicates that other types of pipes do occur which are temporal/regional markers that perhaps are associated with ethnic affiliations. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]