Burkina Faso - The necropolises of Bourzanga

The ensemble that constitutes the necropolis of Bourzanga includes two groups of site belonging each to a population group: the necropolis with jar dogon and the royal necropolis with stelae kurumba. I - Necropolis with jars - dogon coffins Archaeological materials at the sites include ceramics and lithic material. Ceramic is the most abundant, the most visible and the most present. Domestic ceramics characterized by the presence of fragments of jugs, bowls, lids, etc. are distinguished. Funerary ceramics are composed of funerary jars more or less fragmented. The erosion and the action of men have revealed two types of jars - coffins in Bourzanga: the coffins-coffins in vertical position and those in horizontal position.

Burkina Faso - The rock engravings of the Burkinabe Sahel: Pobé-Mengao, Arbinda and Markoye

Pobé-Mengao N13. 87864 W 001.74810 Aribinda N14.22036 E 000.86329 Markoye N14 39.822 E00 03.515 Sorbaia (North) Markoye N14 36.068 E00 04.458 Tondo Banda (South) These sites are located in the Burkinabe Sahel, a border area in Mali and Niger. There is a continuum of sites where the parietal art is dominant with an iconographic fund and a technique of work almost similar. In Burkina, rock art has two components namely, engravings and paintings.

Burkina Faso - The Biosphere Reserve of the Mare aux Hippopotames de Bala

The Biosphere Reserve of Bala (Hippopotamus Mare) is located about sixty kilometers north-east of Bobo Dioulasso straddling the departments of Satiri and Padema. It is surrounded by ten villages to which it attached several large hamlets of culture for a total population estimated at 40 000 inhabitants. Its climate is south Sudanian with an annual rainfall of about 1200 mm. The area of ​​the reserve is 19,200 ha. Its main components are: A pond that extends in the N / NW-S / SE direction, approximately 2,600 K m long and 700 m wide. It also includes 660 ha ponds and flood plains along the 864 ha drainage lines. The aquatic vegetation and the flood zones consist of floating species (Prapia stratioides, Eschornia matans azola sp, Neptunia, Ipomea sp.), A thick thicket composed of Ficus congensis, Canthium cornelia ... and a formation dense herbaceous plant composed of Vetiveria nigratana, Hyparrhenia rufa ... At the end of the dry season, the surface of the lake is reduced from 160 to 120 ha and is covered by a dense aquatic vegetation.

Burkina Faso - Royal Court of Tiébélé

Located at the foot of a hill in a plain landscape, the Royal Court of Tiébélé forms an irregular circular area of ​​approximately 1.2 ha. It is accessed to the southwest by the main entrance. There are several characteristic elements: the Purou, sacred hillock where are buried the placentas of the family members, the nabarê, the altar of the ancestor, the red fig tree, sacred stones, the box of the court, the cemetery of the ancestors and basically the concessions divided into 5 areas corresponding to the following categories: the princes, the keepers of the drums, the elders, the little brothers, and the spokesmen. Each concession is organized around a mother house which, seen from above, has the shape of an eight. The courtyard is characterized by a rich traditional architecture of defensive character. It is surrounded by high walls of fence connected by walls of houses. The whole forms an enclosure difficult to cross.