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In Côte d’Ivoire, the archaeological research conducted for more than 100 years have revealed a rich archaeological heritage that includes various furniture remains and an enormous real estate property that integrates into human and environmental landscapes specific to each type of sites. Since 2010 research on ancient iron metallurgy in Côte d’Ivoire allowed the discovery of various technical heritage, majority of which consists of real estate remains as mining, reduction furnaces, slag heaps etc. The promotion of this specific technical heritage requires close collaboration between archaeologists, museum professionals and other heritage specialists. The state of Côte d’Ivoire has decided to finance the promotion of important sites of the technical heritage of the iron metallurgy to contribute to its protection, local tourism through community development. The problem is based on the strategy to set up for the promotion of this heritage in situ, which differs from the usual methodology of museum approach.
The Egyptian and African Copper metallurgy Project (EACoM) is an interdisciplinary project funded by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO). Research focuses on the copper metallurgy collections of both the Royal Museums of Art and History of Brussels and the Royal Museum of Central Africa (MRAC), Tervuren, in collaboration with the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Centre for Archaeological Science of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Although the collections are diverse in nature and context, the project team adopted a consistent approach focusing on the chaînes opératoires and thorough study of the techniques involved. The aim is to increase understanding of the processes by which the metal was produced and then transformed into semi-finished and finished objects at different times and in different regions of sub-Saharan Africa and Egypt. Ultimately the ambition is to refine our perception of the social and historical context of the two collections and thereby enhance their visibility. Fieldwork carried out by part of the team (ULB-MRAC) in the copper production area of the Niari basin (Republic of Congo) revealed new data on extractive (primary) metallurgy for a region where the primary sources of copper have become increasingly better defined, whereas the MRAC collections, because of their richness and diversity, provide a wide array of data and the opportunity to use different approaches to reconstruct the various chaînes opératoires of secondary metallurgy. An integrated approach to the fabrication processes is even possible in some cases, as in the Konga greaves of the Congo Basin (DRC). Indeed, the documentary and photographic material in the archives of the ethnographic collections of the Museum, together with the tools and finished objects in the collections, permit the reconstruction of the chaînes opératoires involved in the fabrication of the Konga greaves, comprehension of the use of certain tools and interpretation of the tool marks visible on the finished objects. The results not only document a specific set of techniques but go further in providing a technical reference framework that helps interpret the forming of objects bearing the same fabrication marks or of remains from less well-documented contexts.
Abstract: Consideration of the role of African indigenous cultural, ritual, and symbolic thought and practices is largely absent from contemporary Iron Age archaeology and history. This project seeks to fill this gap through a reinterpretation of the archaeological landscape and material culture in the light of southern African traditional knowledge systems. A similar shift in the way rock art was interpreted allowed us to see rock art as a window into deep spiritual practices of San shamans rather than as simple pictures of economic activities such as hunting. The change of perspective that this research introduces and seeks to validate will allow a profound re-visioning of South African history, material culture and archaeology for this period. Current models and histories emphasize cattle and kingship; the model developing here focuses on a social order built around guilds of ritual and technological specialists such as blacksmiths, miners, glass-bead makers, potters, healers and shamans in a landscape of sacred sites and secret knowledge. Aspects of history are preserved in contemporary sangoma’s knowledge, but also in the material culture and landscape. The research is transdisciplinary, utilizing high-level scientific technology (e.g. electron & light microscopy), experimental re-creation of ancient technologies of glass and metals, together with humanistic and social scientific methods of anthropology, archaeology and history. It brings to bear new, recently developing perspectives (e.g. on landscapes, ancient mining, & early fabrication techniques) and new research technologies (GPS, XRF, GoogleEarth). Creating a new conceptual paradigm is risky, even when based strongly in experimental and empirical data, with major future research potential. I am confident that this proof-of-concept research will provide a new horizon for research in multiple areas, including heritage management and tourism, and complement current historical models.
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Presenting Archaeology and Heritage at a UNESCO World Heritage Site: Gorée Island, Senegal2018 •
ABSTRACTGorée Island is Senegal's first site on the UNESCO World Heritage List. It is associated with the infamous Atlantic slave trade, and over the past few decades, Gorée has become a prime destination for global tourism, particularly for the African diaspora from the New World but also for many Europeans and African nationals. Today, Gorée is a forum where different stakeholders battle over the role, place, and significance of the island in the Atlantic slave trade and its enduring legacies in the present. While Gorée owes much of its reputation to its heritage, including architecture, archaeology, and monuments, recent controversies over site preservation and policy compliance raised questions about heritage presentation and consumption. This article analyzes stakeholders’ attitudes toward archaeology and heritage to gain insights on how they are presented and consumed by different stakeholders and eventually destroyed by them as well. The discussion shows ambiguous attitud...
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Current Trends in Archaeological Heritage Preservation: National and International Perspectives2015 •
This volume gathers most of the papers presented at the conference, and its publication is meant to disseminate to an audience as wide as possible the latest work of those working in the field and to promote the latest trends in the protection and management of the archaeological heritage. the international conference Current trends in archaeological heritage preservation: National and International Perspectives, which took place in Iași between the 6th and the 10th of November 2013. The event was organized by the Iași Institute of Archaeology in partnership with the European Association of Archaeologists, the ”Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, the ”Moldova” National Museum Complex from Iași, and the National Museum of Romanian History from Bucharest. The conference was attended by over 50 experts in the protection and management of archaeological heritage from Germany, 10 Netherlands, Australia, USA, UK, Czech Republic, India, Azerbaijan, Portugal, Russia, Poland, Spain, Brazil, Romania, and Moldova. The conference’s goal was to share the experience and to discuss the actual situation in the field of archaeological heritage preservation in various countries. The notifications of the conference were focused on a plenary session, four workshops, an evaluation session, and a study visit to five heritage sites from Iași and Neamț counties.
The first gold artefacts entering the French National Museum of Archaeology were excavated in 1863 at the giant burial mound located at Sainte-Colombe-sur-Seine (Dép. Côte-d’Or), in the vicinity of the wellknown Vix site. Major discoveries – such as those made in 1879 at Apremont (Dép. Haute-Saône) – were then deposited at the Saint-Germain museum. Today, these pieces are not only archaeological artefacts and/or museum pieces: the different ways in which they have been conserved, restored and exhibited provide direct evidence both of the history of research, the history of conservation and the history of curating and conservation of the major pieces of the Western Hallstatt culture, between the 19th and the 20th centuries.
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