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The Future of African Archaeology—The 2023 Perspectives
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This editorial introduces the 2023 "Future of African Archaeology" forum in *African Archaeological Review*, a companion to the journal's 1996 forum of the same title, published to mark the journal's fortieth anniversary. It describes how the forum was assembled and lists the twelve essays that resulted.
Key findings
- The 2023 forum is framed as complementary to, not a replacement for, the 1996 forum; both address methodology, theory, practice, themes, ethics, and epistemology of African archaeology.
- The editors settled on sixteen issues and recruited authors, but "there was attrition along the way, and only twelve made it to publication."
- The forum identifies topics that lacked traction in 1996, including archaeogenetics and its "ethical, methodological, and conceptual issues," and a louder call for indigenous epistemology in African archaeology.
- The twelve published essays cover: Africa and its global connections; heritage management and development; training and collaboration; African museums, archaeology, and praxis; human origins and modern behavior; material science; geospatial science; genetics and archaeology; ethnoarchaeology; durability, context, and pragmatics in linguistic histories; social archaeology, resilience, and usable pasts; and African epistemologies and ontologies.
Methods
- Editorial/forum design: the editors drew up a list of topics and shared it with the editorial board for input, then after "open and private discussions" settled on sixteen issues and recruited authors.
- Contributors were asked to write 1500–2000-word essays as "think pieces rather than literature reviews," addressing recent developments and future directions in their subject areas.
- No empirical data, sample, or formal analysis is reported; the text is a framing introduction to the essay collection.
Limitations
- Stated: attrition meant only twelve of the sixteen planned issues reached publication.
- Evident from the text: the piece is an editorial framing rather than a research study, so it offers no systematic evidence or analysis of the field's future directions beyond the editors' own selection and framing of topics.
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- Premisecitation§ The Future of African Archaeology-The 2023 Perspectives
The March 1996 issue of the African Archaeological Review featured a forum with the same title as the 2023 forum, 'The Future of African Archaeology.'
“The March 1996 issue of this journal featured a forum with the same title as this: “The Future of African Archaeology.””
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Premisecitation§ The Future of African Archaeology-The 2023 PerspectivesFekri Hassan, then editor-in-chief, introduced the 1996 forum as a stimulus for thinking about 'new ways of field research and analysis' on the eve of a new millennium.
“Fekri Hassan, the then editor-in-chief, introduced the 1996 forum as a stimulus for thinking about “new ways of field research and analysis” on the eve of a new millennium (Ellison et al., 1996, p. 5).”
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New instrumentation and other technologies have opened new frontiers for archaeological inquiry that were not present twenty-seven years ago.
“New instrumentation and other technologies have opened new frontiers for archaeological inquiry that were not present twenty-seven years ago.”
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Recent advances in archaeogenetics raise ethical, methodological, and conceptual issues.
“A good example is the recent advance in archaeogenetics and its associated ethical, methodological, and conceptual issues.”
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The call for indigenous epistemology in African archaeology is louder today than it was in 1996.
“Moreover, the battle cry for indigenous epistemology in African archaeology was not as loud in 1996 as today.”
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The generalization (archaeology as anthropology) and particularistic (archaeology as history) debates are muted in African archaeology today.
“the generalization (archaeology as anthropology) or particularistic (archaeology as history) debates are muted these days in African archaeology.”
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Anthropological approaches to the particularities of time, place, and experience have become accepted as valid archaeological research endeavors.
“In fact, the anthropological approaches to the particularities of time, place, and experience seem to have become accepted as valid archaeological research endeavors.”
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African archaeological practice is attentive to heritage studies, cultural histories, and indigenous knowledge.
“In this regard, the attentiveness of African archaeological practice to heritage studies, cultural histories, and indigenous knowledge underscores the need to study, value, and appreciate the African experience in its own right, not a mere pathway to universal cross-cultural generalizations.”
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New emergent topics in African archaeology did not have traction in 1996.
“there are also new and emergent topics that did not have traction in 1996”
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The future of African Archaeology
Ellison, J. (1996) · The African Archaeological Review · doi:10.1007/bf01956131 · Cited by 11
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ogundiran, A., & Gokee, C.
- Affiliations
- Appalachian State University (US)
- ORCID
- Ogundiran, Akin
- Venue
- African Archaeological Review
- Published
- 2023-12
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 775-776
- ISSN
- 0263-0338 (ISSN-L)
- 1572-9842
- OpenAlex
- W4390144291
- Semantic Scholar
- 3e256aeaa84428d45f10eda648d7801311e31f90
- Cited by
- 0
- References
- 1
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- African Archaeological Review (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
- Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeological Research and Protection
- Keywords
- African archaeology, future research directions, research agenda, African prehistory, African material culture
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