essay
The Kintampo culture and its place in the economic prehistory of West Africa
origins of african plant domestication • The Hague • Published In 1976 • Pages: 211-221
By: Flight, Colin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This overview of the Kintampo culture in Ghana notes where it is found, where it might have originated, and some sites the author excavated. A discussion of subsistence covers the possible use of domesticates, and the differences between the various sites.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Location
- Flora
- Land use
- Settlement patterns
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- West African Neolithic
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2021
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1967-1968
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 3500-3000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ghana
- NotesAdditional notes
- Colin Flight
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-221)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77353651
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- West African Neolithic