🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient city
Begho North Quarter (Brong-Akan Gold Sector)
Medieval-Bono (13th–18th c. CE) · Brong-Akan (Bono)
North craft quarter of Begho gold entrepôt with gold-weights and bloomery.
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🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient city
Medieval-Bono (13th–18th c. CE) · Brong-Akan (Bono)
North craft quarter of Begho gold entrepôt with gold-weights and bloomery.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Fortress
Medieval Akan (Bono) (11th–18th c. CE) · Akan (Bono–Adansi)
Granite dome fortress refuge of Bono state with white dot art shelters.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient city
Late Iron Age / Akan · Akan (Brong) / Wangara / Kramo
Iron-curtain city of 10,000+ (11th–18th c) at Akan–Niger gold, kola, cloth and Saharan salt crossroads.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient city
Late Iron Age / Akan · Akan-Bono
Crowned hilltop capital of Bono (Bono Manso) 13th–18th c, mother of Akan gold kingdoms (Mampong, Asante).
🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient village
Later Stone Age Kintampo · Kintampo culture
Kintampo culture villages (2100–1400 BCE) with figurative terracotta 'cigars', ground stone axes and pioneering pearl millet + cowpea cultivation evidence (earliest in Ghana).