Professor Bassey Andah's
Research interest span a wide spectrum of
areas ranging
from early pleistocene to current man. He wrote on the
origins of man and human civilization and such topics as
agriculture, technology, tourism, museums studies etc
were covered.
i. Completed:
1970 – June 1972 –
Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of Upper Volta,
(Doctoral Dissertation for University of California,
Berkeley - 1973). Funding by National Science
Foundation, U.S.A.
August – Sept. 1973 –
Palacoanthropological Studies of Asokrochona Environs –
Accra Ghana Coast. Joint funding from Universities of
Ghana and California, Berkeley.
August – Sept. 1976 –
Palacoanthropological Studies of Afikpo Rock Shelter in
Imo State, Nigeria, Jointly with Fred Anozie, U.N.N.
‘Bantu Homeland Studies’
1976 – 1990 Anthropological Study of Human Settlements
from Earliest Times in parts of Benue, Funding by the
University of Ibadan, National Commission for Museum and
Monuments of Nigeria and Swan Fund, Oxford University.
ii. In
Progress from Dec. 1993:
-
Anthropological Study
of Early Human Occupation of Ajibode and environs –
Ibadan North East, Oyo state, Nigeria from earliest
times.
From 1992
-
Early Urban
settlements in parts of Guinea and Savanna Region of
Nigeria Funding by SAREC (Swedish Agency for
Research Cooperation).
Work done/being
done under my supervision:
Several doctoral and
masters candidates of Palacoanthropology, Archaeology,
Biocultural Anthropology have completed their work under
me while several others are currently being supervised
by me.
iii. Dissertation
and Thesis:
1967 – “Beginnings of
Agriculture and Pastoralism in Africa South of the
Sahara; An Ecological Approach”, (M. Phil. Thesis,
University of London).
1973 – “Archaeological
reconnaissance in Upper Volta 1970 – 1972:, (Ph.D.
Thesis, University of California, Berkeley).
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