This study offers an alternative perspective on the period of atrophy in Yorรนbรก historiography. We present evidence of resource availability and food security despite the environmental and political instability that rocked the region in the mid-second millennium CE.
New in JAS Reports๐จ
Aspects of garden-based agroforestry at Igbรณ-Orรญtร รก, รwรณ, southwest Nigeria (c.14th-17th centuries CE)
Special issue on Archaeological Science in Nigeria.
https://t.co/PfsmIo7S0g
Our new publication in PLOS ONE uses biomolecular science to illuminate daily life, food systems, and animal management, and local horse breeding in Old Bara, a fortified royal suburb of Oyo-Ile (the capital of the Oyo Empire). https://t.co/7KLN2Arc7T
Old Bara is long viewed as a secluded royal necropolis of the Oyo Empire reliant on the Palace for supply. However, our study here reveals this town is a productive, connected community within the Oyo Empireโs broader economic networks. https://t.co/09ioupdxOC
I'm honored and humbled to share that Iโve been awarded the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship to support my research and graduate studies for the next three years! Thanks to everyone who has supported me on this journey.
Congratulations to the 2025 #VanierCanada Graduate Scholars, Canadaโs future research leaders!
Meet the awardees: https://t.co/VRGGVhof1O
@SSHRC_CRSH@NSERC_CRSNG
We are pleased to extend our congratulations to one of MOWAAโs very own archaeologists, Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, as a 2025 winner of The Dan David Prize, the worldโs largest history prize.
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A PhD student at the University of Cambridgeโs Department of Archaeology, Stanley Onyemechalu, has been recognised for his Legacies of Biafra Heritage Project.
https://t.co/jxa02o94q7
Pleased to receive the @archaeology_aia Conservation and Heritage Mgt Award at the 2025 meeting in Philadelphia. Thanks to the stakeholders, the community, research assistants, @NCMMHQ, Cambridge AHRC Impact Fund, @CASCambridge, A G Leventis Foundation, @STARC_CyI, @EMKP_BM
My preliminary studies in southern Nigeria featured in the 2024 Winter volume of the SHA Newsletter. I look forward to your thoughts!
https://t.co/CMIBPlPDyf
CFP
You are all cordially invited to send us proposals for our @AbidemiBabalol5 session
Public History and Critical Museology: Rethinking African Cultural Property across the Globe
at Lagos Studies Association Conference in person or online
deadline Dec 20! @lagos
Wishing a huge congratulations to @microARCH_lab team member @AIyunoluwa on her recent graduation with a Masters in Anthropology with her research "Industrialization dramatically impacts oral microbiota on a multi-continental scale".
We are very proud of your achievement!
The maiden season of the Bonny-Old Calabar Archaeological Project was a monumental success! In the last 7 weeks, we've gathered preliminary archival, ethnographic, and archaeological data that evinces the various African-European interactions