Category: Archaeology

NORPART- MA project design- Class of 2019

Post author By Martin Eugene Callanan
Post date 20. December 2019

During the fall of 2019 we were pleased to become acquainted with four more students from Ghana.

**NORPART day 14th of November 2019**. From left: Rexford Kedze, Esi Koah Arkoh, Heidrun Stebergløkken, Beatrice Darko-Yeboah, Heidi M. Breivik, John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu and Emmanuel Elikplim Kuto.

The course was this year coordinated by Heidi M. Breivik and Heidrun Stebergløkken. In addition to the general lectures (text courses, theory and academic writing), the students got to experience some more excursions with the Norwegian students. This included an excursion to an excavation held by NIKU at Klostergate and a trip to Oppdal with the Norwegian first year students. Lectures/seminars was given on topics relating to the students’ research themes, like iron working in a Scandinavian perspective, inventory and storage of archaeological sites, functions of rock shelters in Norway and historical archaeology in Scandinavia.

The Ghanaian students shared their experiences about their stay with us during Norpart day. The Norwegian students Une Jensen Aas and Julia Haraldsdatter also shared their experiences from their visit to Ghana in January the same year. This collaboration shows we learn a lot from each other, and we want to get even better finding activities to connect the Ghanaian students with the Norwegian students during their stay with us.

(Post by Heidrun Stebergløkken)

NORPART Workshop in Winneba

Post author By Martin Eugene Callanan
Post date 28. June 2019

Besides all the work that goes into organsing and completing student exchanges at the different institutuions, an important part of our work is to let other people around us know about the possibilities and benefits of international mobility and exchanges. One of the best ways of doing this is is to organise workshops, where students are invited to come and listen to peers, that have already completed exchanges.

The project recently organised a workshop in Winneba at the same time as the Intercultural perspectives on Atlantic history and heritage summer school was taking place. This was a good oppurtunity for NORPART partners and students to meet and to advertise the program for our guests.

There were a variety of presentations at this workshop; some from Ghanian students that have already returned from their exchanges in Norway, but also from current participants of the joint summer scholl at Winneba.

The workshop was well attended with interesting questions from the floor as well as lively plenum discussions about the future direction of the exchange program.

At the end of the workshop, the heads of the various partner Depts, had a project meeting in order to discuss developments and the way forward.

Thank you to our kind hosts for organising the workshop and to all the presenters and participants. These regular events are vital for the smooth development of the cooperation in teh years to come.

Archaeology

One month in Ghana

Post author By Julia Haraldsdatter Hiorthøy
Post date 21. March 2019
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We are two archaeology students who spent four weeks in Ghana, from 3rd of January to 1st of February of this year. We were there on an exchange program with the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies. The first two weeks we were in separate cities, Denu and Dixcove, where we participated in an archaeological field school. Both of the field schools were connected to one of the many historical forts along the coast of Ghana, and the slave trade in general. We were given interesting insights into how things are done differently in archaeological fieldwork in Ghana, but also how things are similar despite the differences in climate and culture.

After the field school we were united back in Accra where we stayed in the International Student Hostel at the University of Ghana. We spent a few days at the Museum of Archaeology, located on campus. There we were trained in the treatment of the museum’s collection and museum management in general. On our days off we were able to visit Cape Coast where we visited some of the historical sites, as well as Kakum National Park where we walked across the rainforest canopy walkway.

Kakum National Park, rainforest canopy walkway

We have learned a lot from our one-month stay in Ghana, both about archaeology and about the Ghanian culture.

-Une and Julia

Tags 2019, archaeology, field work, Ghana

Archaeology

NORPART Symposium 28th November 2018

Post author By Martin Eugene Callanan
Post date 10. December 2018

Recently we organized a half-day symposium highlighting different aspects of the NORPART cooperation. The symposium was held at the archaeology dept at Kalvskinnet and was organized by Anne Ihr. The aim of the symposium was to advertise for the NORPART program and to highlight the value of mobility and international cooperation for our students and staff.

The program was varied with information about the NORPART exchange program at NTNU as well as presentations form previous and current NORPART participants.

NORPART syposium program Download

A big thank you to all who participated by either giving a talk or by attending the presentations. We hope the symposium has inspired you to seek out new international challenges and perhaps even apply for one of the places for next year’s exchanges to Ghana?

Archaeology

NORPART scholar at NTNU workshop

Post author By Martin Eugene Callanan
Post date 6. November 2018

Visiting NORPART PhD fellow Samuel Gyam held a very interesting lecture at a local NTNU research workshop last week. The title of the workshop was “Colonial Entanglements: Institutions, Memory, Resistance” and was organized by Astrid Rasch and the Decolonial Research Group at NTNU.

Samuel presented aspects of his archaeological work from the area around Fort Saint Anthony at Axim, Ghana. The presentation was a very relevant and stimulating addition to the program and was well received. Thank you, Samuel for the presentation and for representing the NORAPRT cooperation so well.

Archaeology

Staff visit to Dept of Archaeology at UG at Legon

Post author By Martin Eugene Callanan
Post date 10. February 2018

This is short report, with some impressions from a recent staff visit to the Dept of Archaeology and Heritage studies at the University of Ghana in Accra (Legon campus). This Dept will be the main partner for exchanges involving archaeology students during the NORPART project.

The aim of the visit was to meet our partners from the staff at the archaeology program at UG. In addition it gave us an oppurtunity to discuss our research interests and focus and explore the possibilities for future collaborations. This kind of interaction is important for a successful joint planning of future courses and exchanges.We also wanted to get some impression of the campus and fascilities that will be available for NTNU students during their NORPART exchanges to UG at Legon.

During the visit to the Dept we had the opportunity to visit the library, labs and museum at the Dept, but also the dorms. bookstore and main library on the the university campus at Legon. The campus at Legon is very comfortable, offering a wide range of different facilities for students and staff. We are sure that archaeology students from NTNU will enjoy their stay at the Dept and at Legon.

There are also many interesting and stimulating places to visit beyond the campus. During our short visit, we received a guided tour of various archaeological and historical sites in and around the Castle at Osu/Christiansborg. We also manages to squeeze in a visit to the wonderful Aburi Botanic Gardens.

We are very grateful to our hosts at the Dept for their kind welcome and hospitality and especially to Wazi Apoh for taking such good care of us. We are looking forward to this collaboration and to carrying out many successful student exchanges together in the future.