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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Stahl, A.B. Innovation, diffusion, and culture contact: The holocene archaeology of Ghana. J World Prehist 8, 51–112 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02221837
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