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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]
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