Archaeological culture · c. 2500–1400 BCE

Kintampo complex

Early farming and herding villages in central Ghana and neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire and Togo, a step from foraging to settled life in West Africa. Kintampo people lived in villages of wattle-and-daub houses, sometimes on stone foundations, kept cattle, goats and dogs, and made polished stone beads, bracelets and puzzling grooved stone 'rasps'.

Pearl millet farming spread to the region at this time.

See Kintampo complex on the map in 2500 BCE →

On the map

2500–1400 BCE