Download or read book MUSEUMS ARCHAEOLOGY W AFRICA PB written by ARDOUIN C and published by Smithsonian. This book was released on 1997-08-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors, drawing on their practical experiences in eleven countries, analyse problems and attitudes involved in the development of links between museum personnel and archaeologists, underlining the existing gaps and suggesting possible improvements.
Download or read book MUSEUMS HIST IN W AFRICA PB written by West African Museums Programme and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 2000-04-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Museums in West Africa have generally paid little attention to recent history, often acting more as warehouses for exotic, antique objects than as interpreters of contemporary events or family oral traditions. As institutions, they risk becoming irrelevant to the societies that support them." "Representing museums throughout western Africa, including those in Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, twenty-four contributors argue that their institutions must become active, research-related centres capable of developing historical knowledge and communicating it locally. They urge museums throughout the sub-region to focus their collection building strategies, to use indigenous material culture, to research recent social and cultural changes, and to harness family histories in their efforts to convey their findings more fully and root their activities more firmly in their communities."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book MUSEUMS COMMUNITY W AFRICA PB written by E. N. Arinze and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1995-06-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book draws on the practical experience of the West African Museums Programme in encouraging the establishment of museums which are responsive to local needs." "Museums, as institutions of cultural importance, should be responsive to the needs of the community. They can contribute in vital ways to its growth and development." "The contributors show that in the preservation of the cultural heritage of the community, the focal responsibility falls more on the local museums than on the centrally-controlled national museums. The running of local museums must harmonise with the national museum." "The contributors have wide experience in countries right across West Africa and provide examples of imaginative ways to respond to local needs. They also give practical advice on such basic matters as staff training, security and the legal framework, without which little can be achieved."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Museums Archaeology in West Africa written by Claude Daniel Ardouin and published by James Currey. This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors, drawing on their practical experiences in eleven countries, analyse problems and attitudes involved in the development of links between museum personnel and archaeologists, underlining the existing gaps and suggesting possible improvements.
Download or read book West African Journal of Archaeology written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oursi Hu beero written by Lucas Pieter Petit and published by Sidestone Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This final report describes the study of an exceptionally well-preserved Iron Age building discovered in northern Burkina Faso, West Africa. The site of Oursi hu-beero, meaning "the big house of Oursi" in the locally spoken Songhay language, was excavated in 2000 and 2001 by a scientific team from the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Ouagadougou. It is situated in the middle of a group of settlement mounds, nearby the modern village of Oursi. In the year 2000, deep erosion gullies were threatening the architectural remains on the surface, which were provisionally dated to the 10th century AD. Scholars from both universities saw the importance of this site and undertook immediate action. But even they were not prepared for what they uncovered under only one metre of destruction debris. The rich diversity of incredible finds in the 25 different rooms rendered their exposure of enormous importance for the archaeology and history of Burkina Faso. Complete storage jars, metal equipment, wooden furniture, rope and textile fragments, grinding stones and charred botanical remains are only a fraction of the total assemblage of finds. Although we are dealing with the results of a single occupation phase and from one building only, the density of finds, the preservation of the architecture and the absence of later disturbances add considerably to our understanding of daily life in this part of West Africa. Up to now the limited contextual information about life in villages and towns prior to the historical periods has promoted divergent and weakly argued interpretations. This volume breaks open new grounds of investigation and calls for further study. Additionally, the editors hope that this report will stimulate and encourage the discussion between historians and archaeologists of the fascinating West African past. The current volume presents an introduction to the expedition, an analysis of the site formation processes, the presentation of the architectural features, in-depth studies of the findings and a lively account of the heritage management project that resulted in an on-site museum. Nine authors contributed to this rich and multifaceted final report. The account of the construction, intensive use, violent destruction and subsequent rediscovery of the building is the enthralling subject of this volume, which is richly illustrated with numerous coloured drawings, photographs, maps and reconstruction drawings. It melds archaeological, historical and environmental data into a thrilling story. A story that reads like a new Crime Scene Investigation episode but happens to have been a real-life tragedy in the African Sahel almost 1,000 years ago.
Download or read book Plundering Africa s Past written by Peter Ridgway Schmidt and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An important book at a time when the booming illicit trade in African antiquities and the despoiling of some of the continent's prime archeological sites generate little concern in the art world." --Foreign Affairs "This benchmark publication challenges all of us to be part of the solution. Plundering Africa's Past cannot help but raise the level of discourse and consciousness about the looting problem, what needs to be done to stop it and about the relationship between Africa and the West." --African Studies Review "Plundering Africa's Past should be required reading for all archaeologists, historians, art historians, museum curators, and government officials involved in the cultural heritages of Africa, as well as most countries and continents with a disappearing past." --H-Net Book Review African government and museum officials, members of international agencies, academics, and journalists examine why the African past is disappearing at a rate perhaps unmatched in any other part of the world. Each looks at the international network of looting and trafficking from a different perspective. Here, for the first time, is a frank indictment of African contributions to the problem--voiced by the distinguished African essayists. The book concludes with a discussion of specific steps that could halt the disappearance of Africa's art and antiquities.
Download or read book Archaeology in Africa and in Museums written by D. W. Phillipson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Phillipson is the first Professor of African Archaeology to be appointed at any UK university, and is Director of Cambridge University's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. In the first part of this passionately argued lecture, he makes the case for the importance of 'archaeology in Africa' and 'Africa in archaeology'. Africa was almost certainly the birthplace of the first hominids and has an archaeological record longer than any other continent. Drawing on examples from the archaeology of Ethiopia, specifically the ancient civilisation of Aksum, Phillipson highlights the contribution that archaeology can make to the understanding of that continent and its people, and demonstrates the relevance of African archaeology to mankind as a whole. In the second part of this lecture, Phillipson defends the vital role of museums as custodians of a significant part of our international cultural heritage and as an essential resource for the furtherance of international scholarship.
Download or read book West African Archaeology written by Philip Allsworth-Jones and published by British Archaeological Reports. This book was released on 2010 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains papers read at the conference West African archaeology, New developments, New perspectives, co-sponsored by the Nigerian Field Society and the Department of Archaeology of the University of Sheffield, with the support of the Universitys Humanities Research Institute, was held at the HRI in Sheffield on 27 June 2009. They are a testimony to the fact that - for all the constraints imposed upon it - archaeological research in West Africa continues to be pursued actively and to make a significant contribution to the subject in the continent as a whole. Contents: Introduction (Philip Allsworth-Jones); Ounjougou: a long Middle Stone Age sequence in the Dogon country (Mali) (Sylvain Soriano, Michel Rasse, Chantal Tribolo, Eric Huysecom); Middle Stone Age Sangoan-Lupemban Lithic Assemblages of Africa (Laura Basell) The archaeological context of the Iwo Eleru cranium from Nigeria and preliminary results of new morphometric studies (Philip Allsworth-Jones, Katerina Harvati, Chris Stringer); A developmental history for early West African agriculture (Katie Manning); Recent developments in iron-working research in West Africa (Len Pole); Beyond Art, Archaeological studies on the Nok Culture, Central Nigeria (Nicole Rupp); Destructive times, constructive measures: Danish funding and collaboration to develop archaeology in Benin (Klavs Randsborg); Between the Forest and the Sudan: The Dynamics of Trade in Northern Ghana (Joanna Casey); Was Benin a forest kingdom? Attempting to reconstruct landscapes in Southern Nigeria (Pauline von Hellermann); The archaeology and palynology of Ajaba, a late iron-age settlement in north-east Yoruba land, Nigeria: some preliminary results (A.E. Orijemie, A. Ogunfolakan, J.O. Aleru, M.A. Sowunmi); The Stone Arm Rings and Related Polished Stone Industries of Hombori (Mali) (K.C. MacDonald); Contextualising the DGB sites of northern Cameroon(Gerhard Muller-Kosack); Ethnoarchaeology at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Ibadan: excavation of the mound at Adesina Oja in the Archaeological Reserve (Philip Allsworth-Jones); The Dundu Museum (Angola): project for its reopening and renovation (2007) (Manuel Laranjeira Rodrigues de Areia); The linguistic geography of Nigeria and its implications for prehistory (Roger Blench).
Download or read book The State of West African Archaeology at the Close of the Twentieth Century written by V. Emenike Chikwendu and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rethinking West African Archaeology written by Samuel Oluwole Ogundele and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology written by Peter Mitchell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 1077 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa has the longest and arguably the most diverse archaeological record of any of the continents. It is where the human lineage first evolved and from where Homo sapiens spread across the rest of the world. Later, it witnessed novel experiments in food-production and unique trajectories to urbanism and the organisation of large communities that were not always structured along strictly hierarchical lines. Millennia of engagement with societies in other parts of the world confirm Africa's active participation in the construction of the modern world, while the richness of its history, ethnography, and linguistics provide unusually powerful opportunities for constructing interdisciplinary narratives of Africa's past. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of African archaeology, covering the entirety of the continent's past from the beginnings of human evolution to the archaeological legacy of European colonialism. As well as covering almost all periods and regions of the continent, it includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates, and situates the subject's contemporary practice within the discipline's history and the infrastructural challenges now facing its practitioners. Bringing together essays on all these themes from over seventy contributors, many of them living and working in Africa, it offers a highly accessible, contemporary account of the subject for use by scholars and students of not only archaeology, but also history, anthropology, and other disciplines.
Download or read book East African Archaeology written by Chapurukha Makokha Kusimba and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East Africa occupies a special place in human history as the testing ground for early human experimentation.
Download or read book A History of African Archaeology written by Peter Robertshaw and published by James Currey (GB). This book was released on 1990 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archaeology Africa written by Martin Hall and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Hall explains how archaeologists find sites, design an excavation, date finds, and write history. The reader is given an outline of the history of the African continent, from the early hominids to the present. South Africa: David Philip/New Africa Books
Download or read book The Archaeology of Southern Africa written by Peter Mitchell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an archaeological synthesis of Southern Africa.
Download or read book The Prehistoric Archaeology of Northwest Africa written by Frederick Roelker Wulsin and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
