Composed of five elements located in different provinces of Burkina Faso, this property includes 15 standing natural-draught furnaces, other furnace structures, traces of dwellings and mines.
The five provinces are Douroula, Tiwega, Yamane Kindibo and Bekuy. Douroula, which dates back to the 8th Century BCE, contains the oldest evidence of the development of iron production in Burkina Faso.
Tiwega, Yamane, Kindibo and Bekuy stand testimony to the intensification of iron production in the country during the secnd millennium CE.
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