Keep Your Eyes on the Practices and Process: Ann Stahl’s Impact on the Archaeology of the Bight of Benin and Beyond

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Crafting Archaeological Practice in Africa and Beyond: Celebrating the Contributions of Ann B. Stahl to Global Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Through a series of publications, boots on the ground fieldwork, and dynamic community collaboration, Ann Stahl set the pace for an engaged archaeology that centered historical processes, daily practices, scale, and dimensions of time. Although these theoretical innovations have been adopted broadly, they took flight in the West African region when Stahl focused her research. This paper explores Stahl’s impact on the archaeology of the Bight of Benin Region in West Africa, as well as the diasporic places where people from this region were forcibly relocated.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Crafting Archaeological Practice in Africa and Beyond: Celebrating the Contributions of Ann B. Stahl to Global Archaeology   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38837.0