Kirikongo

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Kirikongo is an archaeological site located in the Mouhoun Bend region of Burkina Faso. The importance of Kirikongo and investigations of other sites in the Mouhoun River drainage system is that the system remains relatively unexplored and was inhabited by the ancestors of the Bwa.Holl, A. F. C. and L. Kote 2000 Settlement Patterns, Food Production, and Craft Specialization in the Mouhoun Bend (NW Burkina Faso): Preliminary Results of the MOBAP 1997-1999 Field Seasons. West African Journal of Archaeology 30(1):69-107. Additionally, the area represents a zone of punctuated assimilation and adoption of animal husbandry and agriculture during the occupations at Kirikongo.Dueppen, Stephen A. and Daphne E. Gallagher 2013 Adopting agriculture in the West African savanna: Exploring socio-economic choices in first millennium CE southeastern Burkina Faso. Journal of Archaeological Science 32:433-448. The site consists of several mounds that each represented a household.Dueppen, Stephen A. 2011 Early evidence for chickens at Iron Age Kirikongo (c. AD 100–1450), Burkina Faso. Antiquity 85(327):142-157. Read more on Wikipedia

type: historic site
date from: None

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