A Neolithic agropastoral culture of the West African forest-savanna transition zone, marking the introduction of food production and sedentism into the region that later became Ghana.
The Kintampo Complex (c. 2500–1400 BCE) of the West African forest-savanna zone transitioned gradually into the later Iron Age cultures of the region by c. 1400–1000 BCE; it did not end through conquest but through cultural evolution as iron use and new agricultural traditions spread across the region.
Covers the West African Neolithic including the Kintampo transition from pastoralism to sedentism.
Authoritative survey of African prehistory through c.500 BC, covering the West African Neolithic transition to food production within which the Kintampo Complex sits.