MOWAA Archaeology Project: enhancing understanding of Benin City’s historic urban development and heritage through pre-construction archaeology
Pre-construction archaeology in West Africa presents new avenues for understanding historic urban development. Excavation of two building plots for the Museum of West African Art, Benin City, Nigeria, provides new perspectives on the Kingdom of Benin, a significant polity in the West African forest zone during the second millennium AD.
Authors
- Marcus Brittain
- Charles Le Quesne
- Sam Nixon
- Matt Brudenell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6866-9032)
- Anna Adamu
- Caleb Adebayo Folorunso (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8124-0422)
- Abidemi Babatunde Babalola (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9634-1346)
- Segun Opadeji
- Chris Breeden
Institutions
- British Museum (GB)
- National Museum of African Art (US)
- University of Ibadan (NG)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Africa Center (US)
- National Monuments Council (CL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Antiquity
- Published
- 2025-10-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10189
- Primary Topic
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00