Sine Ngayene Archaeological Project
The University of Michigan Field Station
Ngayene, SENEGAL
The University of Michigan is developing a new archaeology field
program in Senegal in West Africa, combining research and field
training. The Sine Ngayene Archaeological Project (SNAP) will be
implemented in the western core of the Senegambian Megalithic zone. The
research will focus on the Megalithic phenomenon and aims to document
its origins, history, and changes through time.
The project will provide undergraduates and graduates students with
archaeology field training and research opportunities difficult to
match anywhere else in West Africa today. The University of Michigan,
in
collaboration with the Institut Fondamental de l'Afrique Noire (IFAN -
Cheikh Anta Diop) of Senegal, will run the field school. A field
station is being built on a land plot located in the village of
Ngayene, made available through a land grant from the Senegalese local
authorities.
Students will learn how to conduct an archaeological excavation,
features mapping, photography and data recording and processing, as
well as artifacts drafting and report writing.
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