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Kirikongo
Kirikongo is an archaeological site located in the Mouhoun Bend region of Burkina Faso. The importance of Kirikongo and investigations of other sites in the Mouhoun River drainage system is that the system remains relatively unexplored and was inhabited by the ancestors of the Bwa.〔, Holl, A. F. C. and L. Kote 2000 Settlement Patterns, Food Production, and Craft Specialization in the Mouhoun Bend (NW Burkina Faso): Preliminary Results of the MOBAP 1997-1999 Field Seasons. ''West African Journal of Archaeology'' 30(1):69-107.〕 Additionally, the area represents a zone of punctuated assimilation and adoption of animal husbandry and agriculture during the occupations at Kirikongo.〔, Dueppen, Stephen A. and Daphne E. Gallagher 2013 Adopting agriculture in the West African savanna: Exploring socio-economic choices in first millennium CE southeastern Burkina Faso. ''Journal of Archaeological Science'' 32:433-448.〕 The site consists of several mounds that each represented a household.〔, Dueppen, Stephen A. 2011 Early evidence for chickens at Iron Age Kirikongo (c. AD 100–1450), Burkina Faso. ''Antiquity'' 85(327):142-157.〕 ==Archaeology of the Mouhoun Bend== The Mouhoun Bend is important archaeologically for its presence along the transition between Holocene forest and the margins of the savanna throughout time.〔 From an agricultural perspective, this region is located along an area with intensive use of tubers in the forests to the south and west and cereals in the savanna margins to the north and east.〔〔 Major occupations in the Mouhoun Bend range from 700 BC to AD 1600.〔 From a cultural perspective, Later Stone Age and Early Iron Age occupations in the Mouhoun Bend are associated with the Kintampo Complex to the south〔 As a product of historical seclusion from state-level societies that developed in western Africa during the Late Iron Age and a lack of contemporary interest by archaeologists, archaeological sites in the Mouhoun Bend have remained greatly underinvestigated.〔 Archaeological investigations that have taken place, though, have focused almost entirely on creating chronological timelines and basic economic transitions.〔
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