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West African Worlds: Rivers, Forests, Cities, and Living Heritage
West Africa; selected Ghana context · Source-reviewed profile

Koma Land and Yikpabongo: figurines, work, and interpretation

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

The 2013 study investigates ritual practice at Yikpabongo, rather than treating every mound as a burial. The ceramic dissertation examines pottery and figurine production within sampled contexts. The exhibition catalogue is an interpretation of selected material, not authorization to reproduce sacred knowledge.

Ritual-material and ceramic research context Approximately eighth–eleventh century investigated contexts; regional variation retained Excavation-based ritual study, ceramic doctoral research and exhibition catalogue Tamale, 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.
概览

Households, landscapes, institutions, and the evidence

Rivers, environments, and regional connections

Tamale is a modern orientation for the named context. No territorial extent or automatic continuity is inferred. Selected mounds and figurines do not establish one Koma kingdom, homogeneous people or universal ritual.

Political organization and community scale

Selected mounds and figurines do not establish one Koma kingdom, homogeneous people or universal ritual.

Later transformation, living heritage, and modern reception

Living communities and heritage institutions retain their own authority. Later research and interpretation are dated separately below. No figurine, ceramic style or modern regional name alone identifies an ancient language. The atlas cannot establish identity, ancestry, descent or membership.

Evidence The 2013 study investigates ritual practice at Yikpabongo, rather than treating every mound as a burial.

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 ceramic dissertation examines pottery and figurine production within sampled contexts.

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 exhibition catalogue is an interpretation of selected material, not authorization to reproduce sacred knowledge.

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 [S3]
历史序列

简洁、来源化的时间表

这些里程碑是指向点,而不是完整的历史.

  1. Material contexts

    Dating attaches to selected investigated deposits, not every figurine sold under a regional label.

    [S1]

  2. Sampled ceramic questions

    The doctoral research examines production within a limited sequence.

    [S2]

  3. Ritual research

    The published study investigates practices without supplying a complete ancient belief system.

    [S1]

  4. Interpretation and care

    Catalogue and ceramic research remain distinct from living community authority.

    [S3]
文化和语言

Food, craft, labor, learning, and belief

本简介中命名的语言

  • No figurine, ceramic style or modern regional name alone identifies an ancient language.

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

The 2013 study investigates ritual practice at Yikpabongo, rather than treating every mound as a burial.

The ceramic dissertation examines pottery and figurine production within sampled contexts.

The exhibition catalogue is an interpretation of selected material, not authorization to reproduce sacred knowledge.

Material evidence and transmitted accounts require context; no artifact, manuscript, ancestral-remains or sacred-site imagery is reproduced.

Independent DNAGENICS AI-assisted educational summaries, not reproductions of the cited works or professional scholarly review. Cited communities, museums, researchers, universities, heritage authorities, UNESCO and publishers did not author or endorse this atlas. Names identify sources only; no logos, source imagery, human remains, restricted cultural expressions or sensitive coordinates are reproduced. Public availability does not establish cultural consent. Use the site's contact channel for corrections or concerns.

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证据登记册

本页使用的来源

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

    Insights into Past Ritual Practice at Yikpabongo, Northern Region, Ghana

    Kankpeyeng and colleagues; African Archaeological Review; University of Manchester · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · 2013

  13. S2

    Re-piecing the fragments: insight into the motivations and identities of the Koma Land pottery and figurine makers, using ceramics analysis

    Bryn Trevelyan James; University of Manchester · Original doctoral research record · Repository record; consulted 2026-10-20

  14. S3

    Fragmentary Ancestors. Figurines from Koma Land, Ghana

    Insoll, Kankpeyeng, Nkumbaan and Saako; Manchester Museum · Exhibition catalogue record; not permission to reproduce sensitive objects · 2013

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Editorial review: October 20, 2026

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