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Kintampo Complex

2500 BC – 1400 BC
CultureAfrica

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.

Borders in 2500 BC · drawn from 1 sourced border frame
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