West African Worlds: Rivers, Forests, Cities, and Living Heritage
West Africa; selected Ghana context · Profil avec revue des sources

Bosumpra and Kwahu plant-work histories

No ancient self-designation is inferred from this research label or modern place name.

The national inventory identifies Bosumpra as an archaeological context rather than a living ethnic classification. The plant study distinguishes long-lived wild plant use from later evidence for crops. The 2017 reassessment discusses a longer sequence than the previously investigated upper deposits.

Archaeobotanical and settlement context Late Pleistocene background and Holocene sequence through medieval phases Excavation sequences, plant remains and national heritage inventory Abetifi, Ghana: approximate public-town orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site or private-land location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty or route boundary. No access, collecting or travel permission is implied.
Aperçu

Foyers, paysages, institutions et éléments probants

Fleuves, environnements et connexions régionales

Abetifi is a modern orientation for the named context. No territorial extent or automatic continuity is inferred. Household and shelter evidence does not supply a centralized authority for the Kwahu Plateau.

Organisation politique et échelle communautaire

Household and shelter evidence does not supply a centralized authority for the Kwahu Plateau.

Transformation ultérieure, patrimoine vivant et réception moderne

Living communities and heritage institutions retain their own authority. Later research and interpretation are dated separately below. Archaeological plant categories cannot identify every resident's language. The atlas cannot establish identity, ancestry, descent or membership.

Evidence The national inventory identifies Bosumpra as an archaeological context rather than a living ethnic classification.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of the registered source, not author or community endorsement; retain the stated sample and chronological limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Research context The plant study distinguishes long-lived wild plant use from later evidence for crops.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of the registered source, not author or community endorsement; retain the stated sample and chronological limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S2]
Interpretive limit The 2017 reassessment discusses a longer sequence than the previously investigated upper deposits.

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Source review: 2026-10-20 [S3]
Séquence historique

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

Ces repères servent d'orientation et ne constituent pas une histoire complète.

  1. Long occupation question

    The reassessment separates earlier background from the main Holocene record.

  2. Plant work

    Plant remains inform food-processing questions, not an exact complete diet.

  3. Crop evidence

    Later millet and cowpea evidence must not be backdated to the earliest deposits.

  4. Reassessment

    Archaeobotanical work and stratigraphic review broadened the questions.

Culture et langue

Alimentation, artisanat, travail, apprentissage et croyances

Langues mentionnées dans ce profil

  • Archaeological plant categories cannot identify every resident's language.

Famille linguistique: Language, script, archaeological style and political affiliation are distinct; this selected evidence does not classify every resident.

The national inventory identifies Bosumpra as an archaeological context rather than a living ethnic classification.

The plant study distinguishes long-lived wild plant use from later evidence for crops.

The 2017 reassessment discusses a longer sequence than the previously investigated upper deposits.

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Sources utilisées pour cette page

Prefer national heritage institutions, accountable archaeological projects, academic editions, original studies and living community knowledge in its authorized context. Identify institutional summaries, repository abstracts, preliminary reports, older colonial research, advisory evaluations and tentative nominations rather than treating them as independent excavation confirmation. Attribute chronology, composition date, genre, audience and viewpoint. Public access is not permission to reproduce source images, archives or restricted knowledge.

  1. C1

    Human interactions with tropical environments over the last 14,000 years at Iho Eleru, Nigeria

    Cerasoni and colleagues; iScience; PubMed research record · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · 2023

  2. C2

    Optical and thermoluminescence dating of Middle Stone Age and Kintampo bearing sediments at Birimi, a multi-component archaeological site in Ghana

    Quickert, Godfrey-Smith and Casey; Quaternary Science Reviews · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · 2003

  3. C3

    10,000 year history of plant use at Bosumpra Cave, Ghana

    Oas, D’Andrea and Watson; University of Ghana repository; Vegetation History and Archaeobotany · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · 2015

  4. C4

    To Timbuktu From A Land Far Away: Migrating Manuscripts

    Ali Diakité and Paul Naylor; Hill Museum & Manuscript Library · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · 2025-01-30

  5. C5

    Learning From Our Past

    University of Victoria; community-linked educational publication · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · 2023

  6. C6

    Banda Through Time

    University of Victoria Libraries; Banda Heritage Initiative · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · Undated; consulted 2026-10-20

  7. C7

    Site archéologique de Bura

    Niger State Party; UNESCO tentative-list record · Tentative nomination, not World Heritage inscription · 2006

  8. C8

    The Oudierin Drainage Archaeological Project: New Perspectives on the Saloum Delta Shell Middens (Senegal)

    Original archaeological project; African Archaeological Review; PMC · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · 2022

  9. C9

    Early Oyo History Reconsidered

    Babatunde A. Agiri; History in Africa 2, 1–16; Cambridge University Press · Original historical study; oral-tradition and chronology critique · 1975; online edition 2014

  10. C10

    St. George’s Castle (Elmina Castle), Elmina (1482)

    Ghana Museums and Monuments Board · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · Undated; consulted 2026-10-20

  11. C11

    Bibliothèque de Manuscrits al-Imam Essayouti

    Hill Museum & Manuscript Library · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · Undated; consulted 2026-10-20

  12. S1

    Archaeological Sites and other sites of historical-cultural relevance to Ghana

    Ghana Museums and Monuments Board · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · Undated; consulted 2026-10-20

  13. S2

    10,000 year history of plant use at Bosumpra Cave, Ghana

    Oas, D’Andrea and Watson; University of Ghana repository; Vegetation History and Archaeobotany · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · 2015

  14. S3

    Bosumpra revisited: 12,500 years on the Kwahu Plateau, Ghana, as viewed from ‘On top of the hill’

    Derek Watson; Azania · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · 2017

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Revisión editorial: 20 octobre 2026