West African Worlds: Rivers, Forests, Cities, and Living Heritage
West Africa; selected Ghana context · Profil avec revue des sources

Begho: crafts, households, and exchange

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

The national inventory treats Begho as an archaeological settlement context. The Nyarko-quarter thesis investigates a selected animal-remains sample, not the diet of the entire city. The university research record identifies an active area project and community engagement.

Urban archaeological and research context Medieval and early modern contexts through 1600 CE; later phases separate National inventory, selected-quarter faunal research and ongoing project record Hani, 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.
Aperçu

Foyers, paysages, institutions et éléments probants

Fleuves, environnements et connexions régionales

Hani is a modern orientation for the named context. No territorial extent or automatic continuity is inferred. Urban quarters and exchange relationships do not imply a homogeneous city population or one immutable authority.

Organisation politique et échelle communautaire

Urban quarters and exchange relationships do not imply a homogeneous city population or one immutable authority.

Transformation ultérieure, patrimoine vivant et réception moderne

Living communities and heritage institutions retain their own authority. Later research and interpretation are dated separately below. Neither traded objects nor a quarter name determines language, faith or ancestry. The atlas cannot establish identity, ancestry, descent or membership.

Evidence The national inventory treats Begho as an archaeological settlement context.

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 Nyarko-quarter thesis investigates a selected animal-remains sample, not the diet of the entire city.

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 university research record identifies an active area project and community engagement.

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]
Séquence historique

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

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  1. Settlement questions

    The inventory introduces Begho without fixing every quarter to one foundation year.

  2. Household and exchange questions

    Selected material evidence cannot become a complete city census.

  3. Faunal sampling

    The Nyarko study asks about animal use within a limited excavated context.

  4. Community engagement

    The institutional project record documents ongoing investigation, not endorsement of this atlas.

Culture et langue

Alimentation, artisanat, travail, apprentissage et croyances

Langues mentionnées dans ce profil

  • Neither traded objects nor a quarter name determines language, faith or ancestry.

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

The national inventory treats Begho as an archaeological settlement context.

The Nyarko-quarter thesis investigates a selected animal-remains sample, not the diet of the entire city.

The university research record identifies an active area project and community engagement.

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

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Sources utilisées pour cette page

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

    Archaeological Sites and other sites of historical-cultural relevance to Ghana

    Ghana Museums and Monuments Board · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · Undated; consulted 2026-10-20

  13. S2

    A Zoo-Archaeological Investigation of the Nyarko Quarter of Begho, Bono Region, Ghana

    Benjamin Opoku; University of Ghana MPhil research repository · Original thesis record and abstract; selected faunal sample · 2023

  14. S3

    Dr Daniel Kumah: archaeological research and Begho Area Archaeological Project

    University of Ghana Department of Archaeology · Institutional project account or original research; brief attributed summary · Current institutional research record; consulted 2026-10-20

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Revisión editorial: 20 octobre 2026