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The Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) is an organization of archaeologists, researchers from associated disciplines and others who share an interest in African archaeology and African societies. Our membership is international, with participation from Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Oceania, and is actively involved in research in many African countries.
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SAfA 2025 BIENNIAL MEETING
ICArEHB and the Universidade do Algarve are excited to welcome you to Faro, Portugal in July, 2025 for the 27th Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists. If you have any questions, please email safa2025@icarehb.comSincerely, The SAfA2025 Program Committee
AFRICAN CHRONOMETRIC DATING FUND (ACDF) 2024-25/ FONDS AFRICAIN DE DATATION CHRONOMETRIQUE (FADC) 2024-25 To all SAFA members and supporters of the ACDF, It is with great pleasure that the ACDF announces its radiocarbon dating funding awards for 2024-25. They include four (4) successful applicants from four different (4) countries among the fifteen (15) project applications received. We wish to thank the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) for its generous support that made these awards possible. C'est avec grand plaisir que l'ACDF annonce ses prix de financement de la datation au radiocarbone pour 2024-25. Parmi les quinze (15) demandes de projet reçues, quatre (4) candidats de quatre (4) pays différents ont été retenus. Nous tenons à remercier l'Institut britannique en Afrique de l'Est (BIEA) pour son soutien généreux qui a rendu ces prix possibles. Gninin Aïcha TOURE, Université de Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte d'Ivoire. Mduduzi I. MASEKO, Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Théophile ZAGRE, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkina Faso. Nabiha AOUADI, Head of History Department of the National Patrimony Institute, Tunisia. Congratulations to all! Félicitations à tous ! Philip de Barros ACDF Founding Chair ACDF Chair: Philip de Barros; co-chairs, Applications & Education Committee: Emma Loftus & Kolawole Adekola; co-chairs, Funding Committee: Philip de Barros & Jacques Aymeric; Tutorial authors: David Killick & Bernard Clist; PAA Representatives: Ibrahima Thiaw and Chioma Ngonadi; BIEA Associate Member: Kennedy Gitu.
RED successful applications in 2022-23 and/or 2023-24 from Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa GREEN – successful applications, Ghana (2023-24) and Sudan (2022-23, 2023-24) BLUE – 2024-25 first time applications from Tunisia, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, and Gabon Successful applications for 2024-25: Tunisia, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, and South Africa GREY – Tanzania (2022-23), and Gabon (2024-25): one applications each (unsuccessful) CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 2025-2027 SAfA EXECUTIVE BOARD Call for nominations for the next SAfA Executive Board 2025-2027 / Appel à candidatures pour le prochain Conseil de Direction de la SAfA 2025-2027 Call for Nominations: MembershipCallNominations2025.pdf Nomination Forms (English and French): NominatorsFormEnglish2025.docx SAfA BOOK PRIZE 2025: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS The Society of Africanist Archaeologists invites publishers and authors/editors to nominate their book(s) for the 2025 SAfA Book Prize. La Société des Archéologues Africanistes invite les éditeurs et les auteurs/éditeurs à proposer leur(s) ouvrage(s) pour le Prix du Livre SAfA 2025. SAfA Book Prize 2025: Call for Nominations Appel à candidatures pour le Prix du Livre SAfA 2025 SAfA 2025 TRAVEL SUPPORT FUNDING APPLICATION The SAfA Executive Board invites applications for travel funds to the society’s 27th BIENNIAL MEETING at the University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal. We have limited funds, and preference will be given to students and emerging scholars who demonstrate compelling needs in their application. Click on the application form file links below. The submission deadline is March 31. Le conseil d’administration de la SAfA lance un appel à candidatures pour des fonds de voyage pour la 27e RÉUNION BIENNALE de la société à l’Université de l’Algarve à Faro, au Portugal. Nous disposons de fonds limités et la préférence sera accordée aux étudiants et aux chercheurs émergents qui démontrent des besoins impérieux dans leur candidature. La date limite de soumission est le 31 mars. SAfA2025_student_travel support_form_English.docx SAfA2025_student_travel support_form_French.docx | SAfA BOOK PRIZE WINNERS (2023) For a book that has been successful in taking African archaeology to a world audience: Stephen A. Dueppen.
For success in breaking down disciplinary divisions in African archaeology: Barbara E. Frank.
For success in championing the value of African archaeology within an African nation or community: John Kinahan. Namib. The Archaeology of an African Desert. UNAM Press, 2020.
For a major advance in our knowledge of the African past: Peter Mitchell. African Islands. A Comparative Archaeology. Routledge, 2022.
STUDENT PAPER & POSTER PRIZE WINNERS (2023) The following SAfA student members were awarded prizes in the SAfA 2023 Student Paper and Poster Prize Competition held during the 26th Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists at Rice University, Houston, Texas, June 1-6, 2023: Paper Presentation First Prize: Elizabeth Hicks. "Ceramic Use, Cuisine and the Creation of Community along the Swahili Coast in the 1st Millennium AD" Paper Presentation Second Prize: Victor Iminjili. "Late Pleistocene to late Holocene palaeoecology and human foraging at Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar Island" Paper Presentation Third Prize: Abiola Ibirogba. "Human occupation on Landscapes of Trauma: Evidence from the Badagry Coast" Poster Presentation: Sylvia Wemanya. "Mobility and Land-use Patterns of Northern Kenya Populations during the Holocene" SAfA STATEMENT ON SUDAN The Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) condemns the current armed conflict and its devastating effects on the people and cultural heritage of Sudan. The destruction of lives and futures by the warring parties cannot be justified and has to stop. Armed conflict and its effects also endanger the irreplaceable archaeological and built heritage of the country, which constitutes an important part of the unique cultural legacy of Sudan and the identity of its people and their contributions to global history. We stand with our Sudanese colleagues and with local communities in their efforts to protect and promote the manifold cultural heritage of Sudan. We urge both parties to ensure the protection of heritage institutions and sites in line with international conventions. We support local, national and international efforts towards saving lives and the preservation of Sudan’s heritage, which forms an important facet of global heritage and cultural knowledge. Click on the following link from MAEASaM Project for mapping heritage at risk during the current conflict in Sudan: https://maeasam.org/mapping_heritage_risk_during_conflict_sudan/ |
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