The official account of the Society of Black Archaeologists (SBA)
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#tbt to one of the first ever SBA meetings - 2012 Society for Historical Archaeology Conference in Baltimore, MD. Do you recognize any of those young faces?
Check out the way this beautiful community has grown over the last 14 years!
Join us this Saturday after SHA Detroit for a book signing event with Dr. Alexandra Jones at Source Booksellers in Midtown Detroit!
The book, Indya the Archaeologist, features a young Black girl who dreams of becoming an archaeologist like her mom.
Seats will be limited. RSVP to attend the event: eventbrite.com/e/booksigning…
SBA Spotlight | Zenzi Moore-Dawes 👷🏾♀️
Meet Zenzi, a Graduate Scholar @SFStateAnthro
Zenzi shares part of her archaeology journey and her mission to develop comprehensive cultural resource management for her family and communities in Jamaica 🇯🇲
SBA Fieldsite Spotlight | Saclo Village, Bénin 🇧🇯
The Saclo Village Archaeology Project unites Béninois and American students through a dynamic archaeological investigation spanning over 2000 years of political and socioeconomic change in West Africa
@UCLA PhD candidate and Project Field Director Madison Aubey gives us a brief overview of the project and the aspects that are bringing her the most joy ❤️
Big shoutout to Maddy and the entire SVA team for this awesome project!
SBA Student Spotlight | Craig Stevens 🤖
Meet Craig Stevens @mrblackatlantic , current SBA treasurer and a Doctoral Candidate @NorthwesternU
Craig shares some of his experiences using curation and virtual reality for community-engaged research in West Africa 🌍
The Pan African Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies has announced the dates of July 26th to 31st, 2026 for PanAf 2026 - hosted in Maputo, Mozambique.
The conference theme for Maputo 2026 is "Discovering African Archaeology and Heritage Without Borders"
PanAF is accepting sessions now through Nov. 30th (with likelihood for extension). Sessions can be submitted through their website: panaf2026moz.com/
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Africans are creative people, Sand arts in Goree Island, Senegal 🇸🇳
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Last call for abstracts submission for the 2025 West African Archaeological Association conference (WAAA). Abstracts can be in English or French. Send abstracts to [email protected]
The SBA Mentoring Program supports those in all stages of their careers in archaeology and related fields. It provides opportunities for students and early career archaeologists to find support, and for those who are further along in their paths to uplift our growing community 🙏🏾
Support the SBA Mentoring Program today with a one-time or recurring donation! Click the link below on in our bio to donate
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Our Howard University Wolof language students (Rashada Nur Kaba and Shailai Jones) recipients of the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, are enjoying their study at the West African Research Center in Dakar Senegal
#HowardAfrica #HUBisonAbroad #CulturalCompetency
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Ireland's 'untold black history' focus of exhibition that traces Black history in Ireland as far back as the Viking and Roman eras bbc.com/news/articles/c8733n…
Meet Gabriela Martinez Rocourt - a Haitian PhD student @SorbonneParis1 and a contributor to our #BlackInArchaeology2025 Video.
Check out this video to learn more about her community-based archaeological research on the colonial history of Haitian coffee 🇭🇹
Click the link in bio to donate today and support more of this powerful work, and view the full #BlackInArchaeology2025 Video