Nothing Has Always Been Like This

Edward Carr

Chapter Chapter 5 in Delivering Development, 2011, pp 65-79 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract When I first started working in these villages, elderly residents of Dominase claimed an early chief of the village had been one of those who greeted Portuguese explorers who reached the coast five miles to the south in 1471. Since my arrival I have conducted fairly extensive archaeological investigations in both Dominase and Ponkrum, but have yet to find any evidence of occupation that dates to the late 1400s, when European contact occurred. The earliest materials I have uncovered that relate to the current settlements date to sometime around 1825.1 Artifacts from the late 1800s and early 1900s are far more numerous than those from the early 1800s, as might be expected from a settlement that was growing after its founding. The bulk of structures standing here by the mid-twentieth century were constructed in or after the late 1800s.

Keywords: Cash Crop; Slave Trade; Gold Coast; ELIV ERING; Motorize Transport (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230319974_5

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