Book
The Kintampo culture: subsistence and settlement in Ghana during the mid-second millenium B.C.
UMI • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 2015 • Pages:
By: Stahl, Ann Brower.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This Ph.D. dissertation details archaeological survey and excavation in west-central Ghana. Thirty-six Kintampo Neolithic to Iron Age sites were found. The study mainly centers on the excavations and findings at the K6 rockshelter, occupation of which extended from the Late Stone Age Punpun phase through the Kintampo Neolithic and into the Iron Age. The site includes some evidence of shelter construction, ceramics, and early goats.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Location
- Soil
- Fauna
- Flora
- Ceramic technology
- Lithic industries
- Settlement patterns
- General tools
- Cultural stratigraphy
- 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
- Book
- 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
- 1982
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 6400-2000
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Bono, Bono East and Ahafo regions, Ghana
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Ann Brower Stahl
- UM 8525127
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-307)
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of California, Berkeley, 1985
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- West African Neolithic