Ghana - Yikpabongo Mound Samples, Komaland, January 2010. (all photos copyright T. Insoll).

(All captions refer to images left to right) (see Current Research and Current Field Project for details).

1. Larger example of a cleaned figurine formed of different separate parts.

2. Detail of libations hole on the top of same figurine - this is the focus of analysis on other examples.

1. Cluster of pot sherds and quern stone excavated and sampled.

2. Figurine arrangement excavated and sampled found below the quern cluster - chameleon figurine at top and pointed libations figure at bottom of image.

1. The pointed libations figurine after removal.

2. Libations hole on one of the sampled figurines.

1. Bed of pot sherds recorded below the pointed libations figurine.

2. Inverted human skull found below figurine samples with jawbone detached and teeth removed and placed in a pile to the north of the jawbone. Teeth sampled for analysis.

1. Top of a libations figurine sitting within a semi-circle of potsherds stood on edge. Sampled as a block with its surrounding deposits.

2. Close-up of sampled pointed libations figure in context.

1. Part of the low mound at Yikpabongo during excavation by University of Ghana students.