A Critical Assessment of the Problems and Prospects of Geoarchaeological Research Works In West Africa

Abstract

The use of Geoarchaeology in archaeology and related disciplines research endeavour in West Africa is a welcomed development given the potentials but one which is frontally challenged by certain teething and bureaucratic problems in the area. These potentialities problems and promises of the discipline are critically assessed in this paper with a view to getting it right in the research activities in the region as is desired in the new millennium.