From Mali to Tohoku:Frontlines of Fieldwork

摘要

In 2001, I began working at Minpaku. My main research objective at that time was archeological excavation in Mali (West Africa) to obtain new data for rewriting West African History. As societies in Sub-Saharan Africa did not use writing before the arrival of Islam, archeological research is the only means to revise an old-fashioned, cultural imperialistic view of the African past.