[1] Additionally, the area represents a zone of punctuated assimilation and adoption of animal husbandry and agriculture during the occupations at Kirikongo.

[1] 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.

[4] The households were generally equal in status in AD 500, but over the years, the society stratified based on family lineage demonstrated by differences in settlement organization.

[4] The presence of cattle at Kirikongo provides data that supports cultural developments at Jenne-Jeno as part of a migration of ancestral Bwa peoples.

[4] In addition to ceramic and architectural data, bioarchaeological analysis has provided strong indications in transitions towards social inequality by AD 1100.

[5] Additionally, ceramic assemblages at Kirikongo are indicative of the potential for regional interaction with the Kintampo Complex and cultural development out of pre-existing populations.

[4] In fact, Kirikongo may represent merely one of many homestead farming settlements located throughout the Mouhoun Bend and surrounding region during the late Iron Age.