Town · West Africa: the Sudan and Guinea · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Pra-Kakum earthworks

The second cluster of ditched enclosures in Chouin and DeCorse's study, between the Pra and the Kakum north of the coast; Akrokrowa there was probably abandoned in the fourteenth century (about 1304-1365 at one standard deviation) and Ngyeduam was perhaps reoccupied in the later fifteenth.

Occupied on 1 January 1200. Position of the point approximate.

Who holds it

Title
Not known
Since
Not known
Confidence
low

Lord in 1200

No lord known.

How things stand that morning

Occupied farming settlements.

Walls and castle

See summary.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Radiocarbon-dated archaeology; position approximate.

Sources and studies

  1. G. Chouin and C. DeCorse, Prelude to the Atlantic trade: new perspectives on southern Ghana's pre-Atlantic history (800-1500), Journal of African History 51 (2010), abstract and summary as read on the publisher's page

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