Meeting Future Challenges for a Sustainable African Archaeology: Are We Sufficiently Resilient that We Won ' t Get Fooled Again?i

Abstract

The Pan African Archaeological Association meeting of2022 examined the resiliency of African societies whenmeeting varying traumas and disasters. Resiliency drawson the past to suggest strategies for the future, especiallyclimate change and its transforming impacts. Here Ilook €”by means of a keynote address €”at past practicesof African archaeology to draw out several issues thatmust be met if archaeology on the continent is to follow asustainable future. I set out five steps for a transformedpractice of archaeology in Africa, with ancillaryobservations €”such as embracing epistemic humility €”for a more open and less hierarchical approach to ourpractice.https://dx.doi.org/10.56279/sapj.v16.1