Abstract
The discipline of Archaeology and Heritage studies is of cardinal importance in Ghana, largely because writing as a medium of heritage and historical transmission was a relatively recent introduction. Western written documentation on Ghana’s past has superficial time-depth going only as far back as the fifteenth century AD. This gave the impression, in historical terms, of a country of utter darkness in pre-European times. Moreover, the European interpretation of Ghana’s cultural heritage record was replete with biases and distortions and depicted African peoples and traditions as “backward” and “stagnant” entities. This distorted image is seen by modern African scholars as literary product of “colonial scientific imperialism.”
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