Prelude to the Atlantic Trade

New Perspectives on Southern Ghana's Pre-Atlantic History (800–1500)

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8979480
AutoresGÉRARD CHOUIN (0000-0001-8885-6919, Institut des Mondes Africains, autor de correspondencia), GÉRARD L CHOUIN, Christopher R Decorse (Institut des Mondes Africains)
Año2010
Volumen51
Número2
Páginas123-145
Fecha de publicación2010-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of African History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0021853710000241
OpenAlexW1964613670
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas39
Referencias citadas13

The Ghanaian forest was well settled by agricultural communities prior to the opening of the Atlantic trade in the late fifteenth century. The most prominent of these settlements were earthworks sites, construction of which began in the first millennium ce and continued until their abrupt abandonment prior to the mid-fifteenth century. In this article, previous archaeological data are evaluated in light of current research to provide a plausible alternative hypothesis for the history of the Akan, placing that history in a much broader and deeper context

Abandonment (legal · Ancient history · Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Fifteenth · Geography · Human settlement · Political science · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law