Archaeology in African museums

Museums curate, document, conserve, and protect the earth's diverse natural and cultural heritage for purposes of educating humankind. Through research, exhibitions, and other activities that stress our common demominators and achievements, museums help us to forge and affirm local ethnic, national and international identities, unity, and pride. To accomplish such diverse goals, museums require dynamic, dedicated, ethical and fairlY well-educated staff. Museums must also be well-funded and should have local, national, and international support systems. This paper discusses the challenges faced by museum professionals in Africa, especiallY archaeologists, as they attempt to unearth, and in some cases reinterpret, Africa's cultural history.

ANTIQUITY-OXFORD-, 2001

1998

The paper discusses the initiative of the ICOMOS International Committee for Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM) to contribute to the UNESCO strategy to create a more representative and balanced World Heritage List. This can be done by concentrating on archaeological sites in Africa that potentially have Outstanding Universal Value. In so doing, we address at the same time the (thematic) under-representation of archaeological sites on the list, as well as the (regional) under-representation of African sites. The paper also discusses some peculiarities of archaeological sites as world heritage.

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Peter Ucko Memorial lecture

2011