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Professor James Kwesi Anquandah (Fig. 1) was one of the earliest and longest serving Ghanaian archaeologists. He was born on April 10, 1938 and obtained his Cambridge School Certificate from the Achimota School in Accra, Ghana, in 1957 and Cambridge Higher School Certificate in 1959. Prior to obtaining his diploma certificate in Archaeology from the University of Ghana, Legon, in 1965, professor Anquandah had studied for his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in history at the same university from 1960 to 1963. In 1967, he received his Master of Letters (M.Litt.) from the University of Oxford, UK, and worked as a research assistant at the Pitt-Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, between 1966 and 1967.
James Anquandah
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Anquandah, J. 1981. Excavations at the Smith’s quarter of Begho, Ghana. West African Journal of Archaeology 11: 131–144.
Anquandah, J. 1982. Rediscovering Ghana’s past. Essex: Longman.
Anquandah, J. 1987. The stone circle sites of Komaland, northern Ghana in west African archaeology. African Archaeological Review 5 (1): 171–180.
Anquandah, J. 1998. Koma-Bulsa: Its arts and archaeology. Rome: IsIAO – Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente.
Anquandah, J. 1999. Castles and forts of Ghana. Paris: Atalante.
Anquandah, J. 2003. The arts of Koma-Bulsa. In Ghana yesterday and today, ed. C. Falgayrettes-Leveau and C. Owusu-Sarpong, 135–148. Paris: Musee-Dapper.
Anquandah, J. 2007. The transatlantic slave trade: Landmarks, legacies, expectation. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers.
Anquandah, J. 2012. A panorama of Ghana’s heritage. Accra: UNESCO: Sub-Saharan Publishers.
Anquandah, J. 2013. The people of Ghana: Their origins and cultures. Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, New Series 15: 1–25.
Anquandah, J. 2014. Current perspectives on the archeology of Ghana. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers.
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Nutor, B.K. (2018). Anquandah, James. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_2357-2
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