Banda (Geographic Keyword)
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The Banda Research Project encompassed archaeological investigations in the Banda area, Bono Region, Ghana from 1982 through 2011. Investigations focused on sites dating to the last two millennia, with a particular focus on how life in the region was shaped by wider inter-regional and inter-continental networks. The project originated in Ann B. Stahl's PhD research (University of California, Berkeley), followed by multiple seasons of survey, site testing and wider excavations at sites dating to...
Grounded in the Past, Looking Forward: Reflections on Archaeological Practice in the New Millennium (2016)
The plenary theme asks us to reflect on the question “what pasts for Africa?” This is a very big question, with many possible responses. The ones that I sketch are shaped by my position as a graying, North American-based scholar, where archaeology is practiced as a subfield of anthropology and a discipline among the social sciences. This location has substantially shaped my approach to our field, in terms of the questions that intrigue me, the combination of ‘science’ and ‘art’ through which my...
Interim Report on National Science Foundation Grant SBR-9911690, "A Regional Perspective on the Archaeology of Global Encounters, Banda, Ghana AD 1300-1825." (2001)
An interim project report on 1995 excavations at Kuulo Kataa (Banda area, Ghana) and a program of regional site testing. The report was submitted to the US National Science Foundation and the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board. This version is annotated with hand-written notes by Ann Stahl, which have been transcribed as comments in the scanned version.