Qualla: Bosumpra Cave https://qualla.com/bosumpra-cave en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/p/q/bosumpra-cave-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Bosumpra Cave https://qualla.com/bosumpra-cave Bosumpra Cave: Introduction https://qualla.com/bosumpra-cave/ Photo credit Yds2802, CC BY-SA 4.0. The name tells you what this place meant before archaeologists arrived. In Akan, abosom are the lesser gods, spirits who inhabit rivers and lakes. Bosumpra Cave was the home of Obosom Pra, the tutelary deity of the Pra River -- one of the sons of the supreme Sky God, according to Akan cosmology. Long before anyone dug into its floor with trowels and brushes, this rock shelter on the Kwahu Plateau was sacred ground. What the digging revealed was that people had been treating it as such for over thirteen thousand years.

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/p/q/bosumpra-cave-wp/ecpq-bosumpra-cave-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bosumpra Cave: The Pioneer's Trench https://qualla.com/bosumpra-cave/ Photo credit Yds2802, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1943, British archaeologist Thurstan Shaw drove the first excavation trench into Bosumpra's floor. What he found in just 1.5 meters of depth told a story with two chapters: a long prehistoric period defined by thousands of tiny stone tools -- geometric microliths -- and small ...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/p/q/bosumpra-cave-wp/ecpq-bosumpra-cave-the-pioneers-trench.mp3 0:06 2 full Bosumpra Cave: Pottery Before Farming https://qualla.com/bosumpra-cave/ Photo credit Yds2802, CC BY-SA 4.0. Some of the oldest pottery in sub-Saharan West Africa comes from this cave. Stratigraphic evidence shows that by the tenth millennium BC, the people living at Bosumpra were producing solidly manufactured ceramics decorated with channeling and impressed patterns -- a technique kno...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/p/q/bosumpra-cave-wp/ecpq-bosumpra-cave-pottery-before-farming.mp3 0:06 3 full Bosumpra Cave: Thirteen Millennia of Continuity https://qualla.com/bosumpra-cave/ Photo credit Yds2802, CC BY-SA 4.0. What makes Bosumpra unique in Ghana is not any single artifact but the sheer length of its archaeological record. The site was occupied periodically from at least 11,000 BC through the seventeenth century AD -- the longest continuous sequence yet found in the country, spanning ro...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/p/q/bosumpra-cave-wp/ecpq-bosumpra-cave-thirteen-millennia-of-continuity.mp3 0:06 4 full Bosumpra Cave: A Shrine, Then a Church https://qualla.com/bosumpra-cave/ Photo credit Yds2802, CC BY-SA 4.0. Bosumpra's spiritual life did not end with the Stone Age. The cave served as a shrine to Obosom Pra, the deity of the Pra River, whose headwaters lie nearby in the Kwahu region. In Akan religion, the Pra's spirit ranked among the principal abosom of the Guan pantheon -- a god of ...

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