Grubenbefunde in Campo (Südkamerun)

Abstract

During the second half of the first millennium BC, the Central African rainforest was first settled by sedentary and potteryproducing people. The underlying settlement process is still not very well understood. Two pit features from the site of Campo, Église catholique (South Cameroon), throw some light on this process. The pits, which contained mostly ceramics, were excavated in 2007. They also yielded some iron slag, which indicate the production of iron by the people in question. Especially the ceramics of the older pit show a strong relationship between the sites in southern Cameroon and those in northern Gabon in the latter half of the first millennium BC.