Innovation,diffusion, and culture contact: The holocene archaeology of Ghana |
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Authors: | Ann Brower Stahl |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Binghamton, P.O. Box 6000, 13902-6000 Binghamton, New York |
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Abstract: | Stressing recent research, this review of Ghana archaeology highlights what we know of the advent of sedentism, agriculture, iron technology, and urbanism in Ghana and examines how certain patterns in Ghanaian prehistory depart from the expectations of the progressive evolutionary model that has framed our understanding of world prehistory. It is also argued that the archaeology of Ghana has much to contribute to current debates on the relationship between material culture and identity, and the impact of the Atlantic economy on non-European peoples, and to our understanding of cultural diversity in the past. |
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Keywords: | archaeology Ghana Holocene Late Stone Age Iron Age historic |
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