Babatunde Babalola PhD
@AbidemiBabalol5
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Archaeology, Material History, Cultural Heritage, Public History, pyrotechnologies, community engagement, Global Africa
City of London, London
Joined November 2018
Glass was made in Africa centuries before arrival of Europeans
www.independent.co.uk
Chemical analysis of beads found at a site in Nigeria revels a composition entirely unique to the region
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Last call for abstracts submission for the 2025 West African Archaeological Association conference (WAAA). Abstracts can be in English or French. Send abstracts to waaa.aoaa2025@gmail.com
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It was an amazing time at the 2025 @LagosStudies. Our @VeraSmnSchulz three-panel session on "public history and critical museuology" was scintillating with fascinating papers & interesting discussion. Thanks to all the panelists- online and in person
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RT @mowaaofficial: We are pleased to extend our congratulations to one of MOWAA’s very own archaeologists, Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, as a….
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You can still send your abstracts. New Deadline, February 1st 2025.
CFP. You are all cordially invited to send us proposals for our @AbidemiBabalol5 session. Public History and Critical Museology: Rethinking African Cultural Property across the Globe. at Lagos Studies Association Conference in person or online. deadline Dec 20! @lagos
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@OoniAdimulaIfe was also instrumental to the conservation of the archaeological and heritage site, Igbo Olokun, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
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Pleased to receive the @archaeology_aia Conservation and Heritage Mgt Award at the 2025 meeting in Philadelphia. Thanks to the stakeholders, the community, research assistants, @NCMMHQ, Cambridge AHRC Impact Fund, @CASCambridge, A G Leventis Foundation, @STARC_CyI, @EMKP_BM
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RT @VeraSmnSchulz: Join us on Thursday for the first session of our @AbidemiBabalol5 @AymericNsangou #mmea online series on #plants in #Afr….
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RT @VeraSmnSchulz: CFP. You are all cordially invited to send us proposals for our @AbidemiBabalol5 session. Public History and Critical Mu….
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New publication alert!!! .The Ile-Ife glass bead series . and the 'glass bead roads' in West African Archaeology @corningmuseum @STARC_CyI.@UCamArchaeology @CambridgeAfrica @HutchinsCenter @RiceAnthro.
www.tandfonline.com
This paper discusses the assemblage of over 20,000 glass beads and several kilograms of production waste excavated from Igbo-Olokun, southwest Nigeria. It presents the classificatory model adopted ...
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RT @AymericNsangou: Africa, multi-species materialities, ecologies and aesthetics (MMEA) talk next week: Thursday, October 10, 2024, 10am E….
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RT @VeraSmnSchulz: Join us for our @AbidemiBabalol5 @AymericNsangou #MMEA series for a talk by Tamara Caulkins on naturalist Michel Adanson….
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In case you are in Ile-Ife tomorrow, I will be speaking about my EMKP project. In-person only but it will be available on YouTube later .
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RT @AllegraHistory: Officially a P.hD candidate in History @yale_history . And now I’m halfway to my P.hD. 📝📚🍾
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RT @AymericNsangou: Upcoming session of "Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies, and Aesthetics (MME….
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RT @VeraSmnSchulz: Join us @AbidemiBabalol5 at #mmea @chstmorg for a talk by. Taiye Fasola (University of Ibadan): The Relevance of Ethnobo….
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RT @Beejay_Ent: My article on Ilorin Archaeology in the conversation.
theconversation.com
New research on Ilorin in Nigeria provides insights into regional socio-political developments prior to the 19th century.
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RT @Emma_J_Loftus: We found over 500 papers on African topics in the journal's archives - it was predictably tough to select only 21! We pr….
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Map from our @Emma_J_Loftus editorial to the special collection @BarberenaRamiro West Africa among the regions with the lowest!.
This map shows the distribution of studies in the journal across Africa. Lots in Egypt and South Africa, while some countries have none
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