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Early evidence for chickens at Iron Age Kirikongo (c. AD 100–1450), Burkina Faso

Dueppen, Stephen A.·2011·Antiquity
DOI 10.1017/s0003598x00067491
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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.

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  • The zooarchaeological record demonstrates that chickens were present in West African Mande-speaking territory prior to their arrival in the northern Sahel.

    “The zooarchaeological record, however, demonstrates that chickens were present in West African Mande-speaking territory prior to their arrival in the northern Sahel (66, 67) (SI Appendix, Table S2).”

    From The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens (2022) · cites this paper as [66]

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Authors
Dueppen, S. A.
Affiliations
University of Oregon (US)
Corresponding author
Dueppen, Stephen A.
ORCID
Dueppen, Stephen A.
Venue
Antiquity
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2011-02
Volume
85
Issue
327
Pages
142-157
ISSN
  • 0003-598X (ISSN-L)
  • 1745-1744
DOI
10.1017/s0003598x00067491
OpenAlex
W246619447
Cited by
42
References
35
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 3
FWCI
1.57
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 1431 d)
Locations
Antiquity (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • National Museum of Natural History
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Animal Science and Zoology › Livestock and Poultry Management
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Keywords
chickens, Gallus gallus, Iron Age, animal domestication, zooarchaeology, eggshell, sacrificial animals, livestock introduction, West Africa

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