Bosumpra

A cave site near Abetifi, Ghana, which yielded one of the first scientifically excavated assemblages of a West African Neolithic industry. Radiocarbon dating has shown that occupation began around the middle 4th millennium BC and continued for at least 3000 years. Throughout the sequence, a microlithic chipped-stone industry was associated with simple pottery and with ground-stone ax- or hoe-like implements.

A cave site near Abetifi in southern Ghana which yielded one of the first scientifically excavated assemblages of a West African Neolithic industry. More recent investigations have provided a radiocarbon chronology, showing that the site’s occupation began around the middle of the 4th millennium bc and continued for at least 3000 years. Throughout the sequence a microlithic chipped-stone industry was associated with simple pottery and with ground stone implements of axe-like or hoe-like form; the last two categories of artefact became progressively more common through the occupation. The site has yielded no conclusive evidence for the practice of food production which is, however, attested elsewhere in Ghana from the 2nd millennium bc (see Kintampo).