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Accelerator IBA Techniques for the study of ancient pottery from some Ghanaian archaeological sites

14 Jun 2022, 09:20
20m
Board Room C (IAEA Headquarters)

Board Room C

IAEA Headquarters

ORAL Track 2: Interpretation, presentation and dissemination of the scientific results TC Africa

Speaker

Prof. James Boachie-Ansah (University of Ghana )

Description

Ghana has a very rich cultural heritage comprising of several monuments, artefacts, historic and archaeological sites which can be studied, restored and developed for several purposes including Heritage preservation, education as well as Archaeo-tourism.
However, lack of scientific data in this regard tends to encourage unrestrained speculations, which largely accounts for some insupportable hypotheses put forward by many pioneer scholars concerning the nature of culture change in Ghana.
The aim of this work seeks to bring out the viability and potentialities of using integrated and simultaneous IBA techniques to investigate potshards recovered from some Archaeological sites to showcase the contributions that Accelerator IBA applications can be made in cultural heritage studies and Archaeo-Tourism development in Ghana.

Primary author

Amos Forson (Ghana Atomic Energy Commission)

Co-authors

Dr Joseph B. Tandoh (Graduate school of Nuclear and Allied Science) Prof. James Boachie-Ansah (University of Ghana )

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