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I got my degree at Prehistory at the Complutense University of Madrid and a PhD in History in 2012 at that same university. Although my research was originally focused on Central Spain Iron Age, since 2006 I've been increasingly involved in African Archaeology with two main projects: the archaeological and environmental study of Oukaimeden valley (Morocco) directed by Dr. Marisa Ruiz-Gálvez (2008-2012), and the study of 16th century Jesuit churches in Northern Ethiopia (2006-2014), directed by Prof. Víctor M. Fernández. I currently work at the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the British Museum, where I catalogue and study 25,000 rock art photographs within the TARA’s Rock Art Image Project. My range of interests is wide, from the emergence of social inequalities in prehistoric societies to the use of statistics in Archaeology, the documentation and analysis of rock art and, in a broader sense, anything related to African history and culture. https://britishmuseum.academia.edu/JorgedeTorres http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/all_current_projects/african_rock_art_image_project.aspx
G. Ruiz Zapatero Archaeology today: people, knowledge and dissemination
Professor Merrick Posnansky has made numerous influential contributions to archaeology and African Studies during the last half century. Foremost among these is his holistic and inclusive archaeological initiatives that have developed informed representations of Africa and Africans in long-term historical perspective and in the present. He helped shape the early development of historical archaeology in Africa and African diaspora archaeology in the Atlantic world. Posnansky also developed university archaeology programs and reoriented museums in Uganda, West Africa, and the Americas, making them living institutions with a mandate to serve the public. He spent two decades in Africa, primarily in Uganda and Ghana, and later worked as Professor of Anthropology and History at UCLA and, for a period, directed the UCLA Center for African Studies. This interview outlines Posnansky's life, career, and contributions to archaeology and African Studies across three continents. In addition, Posnansky reflects on contemporary archaeology and the discipline's future prospects and challenges in Africa. Résumé Le professeur Merrick Posnansky a apporté énormément à l'archéologie et aux études africaines au cours des cinquante dernières années, à commencer par ses initiatives archéologiques holistiques et inclusives qui ont permis de développer des représentations éclairées de l'Afrique et des africains dans une perspective historique à long terme comme dans le présent. Il a contribué à guider les premiers pas de l'archéologie historique en Afrique ainsi que ceux de l'archéologie de la diaspora africaine autour de l'Atlantique. Posnansky a également développé des programmes universitaires en archéologie et réorienté des musées en Ouganda, en Afrique de l'Ouest et dans les Amériques, en faisant des institutions vivantes ayant pour mission de servir le public. Il a passé vingt ans en Afrique, principalement en Ouganda et au Ghana, avant de travailler en tant que professeur d'anthropologie et d'histoire à l'université de Californie à Los Angeles (UCLA), dont il dirigea pendant un temps le Centre d'études africaines. Cet
Antiquity
Abstract Globally, rock art is one of the most widely distributed manifestations of past human activity. Previous research, however, has tended to focus on the art rather than artists. Understanding which members of society participated in creating such art is crucial to interpreting its social implications and that of the sites at which it is found. This article presents the first application of a method—palaeodermatoglyphics—for the estimation of the sex and age of two later prehistoric individuals who left their fingerprints at the Los Machos rockshelter in southern Iberia. The method has the potential to illuminate the complex socio-cultural dimensions of rock art sites worldwide.
We review the history of rock art research in Kondoa District, Tanzania, specifically the area covered by the ‘Kondoa Rock Art Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site’. We examine why, after nearly a century of research, there is neither a broadly agreed upon stylistic sequence for the rock art of the area nor a clear ascription of authorship. We seek to provide a solution to this impasse by introducing a rigorous and systematised analytical approach that considers both the content of the art and the location in which it was situated. The findings of our analysis, as presented here, demonstrate three clearly identifiable traditions of art, each with elements of overlap and borrowing. We provide an evidence based ascription of authorship to each tradition that confirms the ethnic complexity of the settlement of this area and lays the foundation for future studies of rock art interpretation and cultural interaction.
SAHARA, vol. 18, pp. 69-84, 2007
In this paper we analyse the rock art site of Risco Blanco (Santiago del Teide, Tenerife), recently discovered and previously unpublished. We consider the parallels that can be established with the Saharan Horsemen Cycle and therefore with the Zenagaor Azanegh populations who occupied the area surrounding these examples of rock art. We also propose an interpretation of this archaeological site and point out the theoretical and methodological problems that rock art studies have to deal with, especially in environments similar to the Canary Islands.
Supervised by: Prof. Mgr. Miroslav Bárta, Dr. Submitted for review in: October 2014 Reviewed by: Dr. Dirk Huyge (Curator of Prehistoric and Early Dynastic Egypt, Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Belgium) Prof. PhDr. Břetislav Vachala, CSc. (Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague) Defended in front of a commission on: 13 April 2015
Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 2018
An essay on the archaeological work of Dr. Jorge G. Marcos (Revised). A short, critical biography of the life and contributions of one of the foremost archaeologists from Ecuador.
Rock Art Studies: News of the World, 2021
This article presents an ongoing project to revitalize an Afro-Ecuadorian cemetery called the "Garden of Memory, Martina Carrillo," dating from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, and located in the community of La Concepción, in the Chota-Mira Valley of northern Ecuador. Throughout the design of a proposal for restoration of the cemetery the community of African descendants, including the National Coordinator of Black Women-Carchi, called CONAMUNE-Carchi, and a group of Ecuadorian archaeologists, employed a collaborative approach to the history and restoration of this sacred place. The archaeological project contributes to the recognition of local histories, development of an intercultural investigation, a reflexive understanding of the past and material culture of local community members, and commemoration of their African diaspora ancestors. This project's methodology focused on achieving a form of historical reparations for the African descendants who were impacted by colonial slavery and racism in Ecuador.
MEHMED ÂKİF 150 YAŞINDA BİLGİ ŞÖLENİ BİLDİRİLER KİTABI, 2023
American Quarterly, 2007
Naturaleza y Sociedad. Desafíos Medioambientales, 2023
ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 2018
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 221 (2022) 113–120
Cinta de moebio, 2019
Entre el papel y la carne: Representaciones del cuerpo de las mujeres y las batallas por el dominio de su sexualidad. Un análisis desde la prensa escrita y la vida cotidiana en la región urbana josefina, 1960-2010, 2016
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 2012
Oxford University Press eBooks, 2012
Слово «торы» в кипчакской этнонимии у казахов, узбеков и киргизов по материалам устных генеалогических преданий и этнографическим материалам , 2013
Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, 2017
AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 2000
Hamidiye Medical Journal, 2023
Tarbawi : Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan, 2020
PLOS ONE, 2020
Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2018