| Affiliations: | Race and Ethnic Studies Research Leadership |
| Project Leader: | Megan Crutcher crutcherm@tamu.edu Anthropology |
| Faculty Mentor: | B. Kofi Nutor, Ph.D. |
| Meeting Times: | Lab Hours TBA |
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Team Size:
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8 |
| Open Spots: | 1 |
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Special Opportunities:
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Could include presenting at local, national, or international conferences; co-authorship on publications (for significant contributions); potential to interact with historians, archaeologists, and community stakeholders from other institutions or international contexts.
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Team Needs:
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We’re looking for organized, communicative, and reliable researchers who can solve problems with minimal supervision and enthusiastically learn new methods or ideas! We don’t require any skills or experience as we will teach you everything you need to know, but it’s a major plus if you have any of the following skills: Photography; Microscopy; Knowledge of African history, archaeology, culture, society, politics, and/or economics. |
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Description:
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Ongoing archaeological excavation and study in several towns in West Africa, especially Liberia and Ghana, have revealed the wide-reaching connections of this region in the history of the Transatlantic slave trade. This project will further analyze archaeological artifacts, like beads and ceramics, from several contexts in these nations. This analysis will tell us more about the people who made and used these objects. Student researchers will have the chance to: -collaborate closely with faculty and grad students in the African Anthropology and Archaeology Lab at TAMU to engage in archaeological analysis and curation; -document, photograph, draw, and analyze real archaeological artifacts and objects; -learn how to make archaeological maps and drawings in programs like ArcGIS; -read and analyze written documents about West African history. |