ABSTRACT
The commonest relics are stone celts of neolithic type, which are found in many parts of the Colony and Ashanti. Very few prehistoric settlements have so far been discovered. In the forest in the eastern province of the Colony a few prehistoric earthworks have been found, usually consisting of a simple mound-and-ditch enceinte; excavation in the ditches has revealed little but pottery similar to that already known from Ashanti and elsewhere. The most famous of early expeditions to West Africa is that made by Hanno the Carthaginian. The principal people of the Colony and Ashanti is the Akan. The Akan occupy the whole of Ashanti, and the whole of the forest country west of the Volta in the Colony. The grassy plains of Accra, stretching for sixty miles along the coast between the Akwapim hills and the sea, are the home of the Ga people.
