Pearl millet and Kintampo subsistence

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作者：
D'Andrea A.C. [1 ,3 ]
Casey J. [2 ]
机构：
[1] Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
[2] Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
[3] Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
来源：
African Archaeological Review | 2002年 / 19卷 / 3期
关键词：
Ghana; Kintampo complex; Palaeoethnobotany; Pearl millet; Subsistence; West Africa;
D O I：
10.1023/A:1016518919072
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摘要：
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. © 2002 Plenum Publishing Corporation.
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