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 civilisation and such topics as agriculture, technology, tourism, museums studies etc were covered.
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.
1976 – 1990: "Bantu Homeland Studies" 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.
In Progress:
December 1993 Anthropological Study of Early Human Occupation of Ajibode and environs – Ibadan North East, Oyo state, Nigeria from earliest times.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.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).