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- Title
Early evidence for chickens at Iron Age Kirikongo (c. AD 100-1450), Burkina Waso.
- Authors
Dueppen, Stephen A.
- Abstract
An excavated sequence from Burkina Faso shows that the Asian jungle fowl Gallus gallus, also known as the chicken, had made its way into West Africa by the mid first millennium AD. Using high precision recovery from a well-stratified site, the author shows how the increasing use of chickens could be chronicled and distinguished from indigenous fowl by both bones and eggshell. Their arrival was highly significant, bringing much more than an additional source of food: it put a sacrificial creature, essential for numerous social and economic transactions, in reach of everyone.
- Subjects
BURKINA Faso; CHICKENS; IRON Age; JUNGLEFOWL; BIRD remains (Archaeology); ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; ANIMAL sacrifice
- Publication
Antiquity, 2011, Vol 85, Issue 327, p142
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0003598X00067491