Daily practices of food in Likpe Kukurantumi earthwork settlement, Ghana

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Ayipey, P. - Pokorná, Adéla - Beneš, J.
Daily practices of food in Likpe Kukurantumi earthwork settlement, Ghana.
10th International Workshop for African Archaeobotany. 27th-30th June 2023, Paris (France). Abstracts. Oral and poster communications. Paris: AASPE, 2023. s. 22. ISBN N.
[International Workshop for African Archaeobotany /10./. 27.06.2023-30.06.2023, Paris]
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985912
Klíčová slova: foodways * earthworks * archaeobotany * daily practices
Obor OECD: Archaeology
https://iwaa10.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Program_IWAA_2023_final_5.pdf

There are few archaeobotanical studies on the impact of regional foodways on the Atlantic trade and the movement of American crops to the African coast. However, to characterize the full extent of processes that lead to the current social position of American crops within local foodways in Ghana, there is a need to investigate the pre-Atlantic era. Archaeological and interdisciplinary research is necessary to characterize the full extent of processes that lead to the current social position of American crops within local foodways. Archaeologists cannot ignore studies on Earthworks to understand the pre-Atlantic period of Ghana's history. This paper presents a preliminary overview of the archaeobotanical research conducted at the pre-Atlantic abandoned settlement of the Like Kukurantumi Earthwork in the contemporary people of Likpe in the Oti Region of Ghana. In this research, I work closely with the Laboratory of Archaeobotany and Paleoecology at the University of South Bohemia, the African Archaeobotany Department at Goethe Institute Frankfurt, and the Likpe Kukurantumi community to understand the foodways and how the people of the past interacted with their environment. The indigenous knowledge holders are community knowledge holders of Likpe Kukurantumi. This study contributes new empirical evidence that documents some of the evolution of West African food traditions during the past two millennia through the analysis of archaeobotanical samples of the study area. Data from the study shows the archaeobotanical remains recovered from the study area. This research is timely because it contributes to knowledge and the discourse on the foodways during the pre-Atlantic era.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0351260