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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sundjata: [QB] Thanks Brada-Anansi! [QUOTE]Originally posted by Brada-Anansi: [qb] Reminiscent of old Zimbabwe far to the South of Africa is these ruins in Burkina Fasso West Africa they link the gold producing cities to the south of the savanna empires had contacts to the forest empires like the Ashanti and others. [IMG]http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/thumbs/site_1225_0002-500-334-20100126120931.jpg[/IMG] Read more: http://egyptsearchreloaded.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=bag&thread=791&page=1#ixzz1NQRKZiMs [/qb][/QUOTE]Goodness, how much history can be hidden?! What's interesting is that it can't be associated with any particular ethnic group/kingdom. Given that, I wonder what they've used to narrow down the range of time in which this structure was built as the writer/s seem to contradict themselves: [QUOTE]The recent inter-disciplinary project has allowed a reassessment of the history of Loropéni. [b]This has pushed much further back the date of its construction from around the 17th century to at least the 11th century AD[/b] and disassociated it from the Gan people, mentioned in the previous evaluation report.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]It is necessary to locate the construction of the Loropéni ruins in the geopolitical context of the sub-Saharan kingdoms. [b]They appeared after the fall of the first empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, when there were migrations of gold miners and goldsmiths into the Lobi area, and well before the development to the south of the Akan kingdoms[/b], such as the powerful Ashanti kingdom, which caused migrations to the north as people fled slave hunters[/QUOTE]^ But if it can be pushed back to the 11th century then that is well before the emergence Mali and Songhai. The introductory description also claims the ruins are 1,000 years old, "AT LEAST" and that the town reached its apogee between the 14th and 17th century. This is roughly congruent with the rise and fall of Old Mali. Maybe they're referring to the Gan's "rebuilding" project as was alluded to. It would be interesting to scan the archaeology and present ethnography to see if we can identify any similar building traditions preceding Loropeni and if any other groups likely remember it (as the Koulango say they do). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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