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Fritz Biveridge

Fritz Biveridge
Education: 
BA, MPhil, PhD (Ghana)
Associate Professor
FBiveridge@ug.edu.gh

 

Educational background

2014: Doctor of Philosophy, Archaeology. University of Ghana, Legon
2005: Master of Philosophy, Archaeology. University of Ghana, Legon
1989: Bachelor of Arts, Archaeology and History (Second Class Upper Division). University of Ghana, Legon.

Courses Taught - University of Ghana
* Archaeology of the African Diaspora. ARCH: 263
* Ethno archaeology of Africa. ARCH: 273
* Fundamentals of Archaeological Science. ARCH: 211
* Early Civilizations of Africa. ARCH: 214
* Introduction to Economic Anthropology. ARCH: 436. 
* Cross Cultural Contacts and Historical Archaeology of Africa. ARCH: 427
* Issues in Heritage Management. ARCH: 618
* Applied Archaeology. ARCH: 612
* Indigenous Knowledge Systems of Ghana ARCH 606/ARCH 712

 

Publications

Articles in Refereed Journals

Akurang-Parry, K., & Biveridge, F. (Eds.).  (2021). The Contributions of Professor Robert Addo-Fening to the History and Culture of Ghana. A Festschrift. Tema, Ghana. Digibooks Ghana Ltd.

 ISBN: 978-9988-9151-9-3

Akurang-Parry, K., & Biveridge, F. (Eds.). (2021). Introduction: Robert Addo-Fening’s and the History and Culture of Ghana. In The Contributions of Professor Robert Addo-Fening to the History and Culture of Ghana. A Festschrift. Akurang-Parry, K., & Biveridge, F. (pp. 1-14). Tema, Ghana. Digibooks Ghana Ltd.

Gyam, S. & Biveridge, F. (2021). Unravelling the Euro-African Socio-Economic Encounter at Axim through an Historical Archaeology Lens: 1650 -1900. In The Contributions of Professor Robert Addo-Fening to the History and Culture of Ghana - A Festschrift. Akurang-Parry, K., & Biveridge, F. (Eds.). (pp. 43 – 68). . Tema, Ghana.  Digibooks Ghana Ltd.

Biveridge, F. (2021). The “Galamsey” Menace: Implications on the archaeological Record at Awudua Dada, Western Region, Ghana. Legon Journal of Humanities.  32(1). pp. 103-133.

Biveridge, F. (2021). An Archaeological Investigation of Laloi East Molluscs Site at Kpone, Ghana. Journal of African Archaeology. 19(1). pp. 115–126.

Biveridge, F. (2020). Deep Sea Fishing along the Dixcove Coastline: Fact or Fallacy? West African Journal of Archaeology. 50(1&2). pp. 165–181.

Biveridge, F. (2020). Body Scarifications of the Dangme People of Kpone: Implications for their Culture. Journal of Environment and Culture. 17. pp. 2–22

Biveridge, F. (2020). Archaeological Manifestations of Cross Cultural Encounters along the Dixcove Coastline, Western Region, Ghana. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. 55(2). pp. 189–216.

2019. Biveridge, Fritz. Ethno archaeological Clues to Stone Exploitation in Ancient Dangme-land, Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Legon Journal of Humanities. Vol. 35. No 2 (35 – 78)

2018. Biveridge, Fritz. Conscientious Achievements of the Dangme before the Atlantic Contact:

Insights from Archaeological and Ethno historical Investigations at Sega and Kpone, Greater   Accra Region, Ghana. Afrika Zamani. No 26. (1 – 25)

2018. Biveridge, Fritz. First results of Archaeological Excavations Conducted at Laloi East, Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Ethnographisch Archaologische Zeitschrift (EAZ). Vol. 56. Issue 1/2 (2015). (255-74)

2018. Biveridge, Fritz. Interim Report on Archaeological Excavations Conducted at Kpone  

West, Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Nyame Akuma. No. 87.  June. (39-45).

2016. Biveridge, Fritz. Trade Feuds and Armed Confrontations: Archaeological Indications at Forts Ruychaver and Eliza Carthago, Western Region, Ghana. West African Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 46. No. 1 (36 --52)

2016. Wellington, Henry, Biveridge, Fritz and Daniel Kuma. Iconoclasm Antithesis to Cultural

Heritage Conservation in Ghana: A Case Study of Conflicts Typology in the Danish-Osu Heritage Setting. West African Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 46. No. 1 (53 – 69

2016. Biveridge, Fritz. Archaeological Perspectives of the Danish-Dangbe encounter along the

Eastern Coastal Belt of Ghana and their Implications for Understanding Dangbe Culture.            Ghana Social Science Journal.  Vol. 13. No. 1. (119 – 156)

2016.   Biveridge, Fritz. Early Dietetics of the Ahanta: A Case Study of Dixcove and its Neighbourhoods. Studies in the African Past. Vol. 12. (55 – 75)

2016. Biveridge, Fritz and Foson, Amos. Chemical Characterization of Ancient Pottery from Dixcove, Ghana, using Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA).  Nyame Akuma. No. 84. (June, 2016) (55 – 66)

2015.   Biveridge, Fritz. Preliminary report of fieldwork undertaken at Fort Battenstein, Butre, Western Region, Ghana.  Nyame Kuma.  No. 83. (December, 2015). (40 - 47)

2014.  Biveridge, Fritz. An Archaeological Perspective of the Traditional Iron Smelting and Metalworking Industries at Ancient Dixcove, Western Region, Ghana. West African Journal of Archaeology. No. 44 (1 & 2). (1 – 19).

2014.   Wellington, H. and Biveridge, Fritz. An Approach to Interpretation and Presentation of Tangible Cultural Heritage: The Case of Christiansborg and Fort Metal Cross in Ghana.  Current Perspectives in the Archaeology of Ghana. Social Science Series. Vol. 6.  J. Anquandah, B. Kankpeyeng and W. Apoh. (Eds.)  (182 – 202). University of Ghana, Legon. (182 - 202)

2011.   Biveridge, Fritz.  Environmental degradation and Historical Tourism – the Dixcove Coastline as a Case Study. Journal of Environment and Culture. Vol. 8. No. 2 (12 - 26).

2011.  Biveridge, Fritz. The Brakwa Earthworks: Preliminary Results of Fieldwork.  Ghana Social Science Journal. Vol. 8.  No. 1 & 2. (176 - 190).

2010.  Biveridge, Fritz.  A Study of Ancient Subsistence Strategies of the Coastal Dangbe of Ghana: An Archaeological Perspective. West Africa Journal of Archaeology.  Vol. 40. No. 1 & 2. (49 - 73).

2009.  Biveridge, Fritz. 2009. An archaeological Investigation of Sega – An abandoned Dangme Settlement. Studies in the African Past. Vol. 8. (38 - 64)

2009.  Biveridge, Fritz. 2009. Molluscs in Archaeological Reconstruction: The Kpone Coastline, Ghana, as a Case Study. Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology. No. 74. (25 - 35)

 

Books Chapters

2013.  Biveridge, Fritz. Fort Elize Carthago Rediscovered. The Ankobra Gold Route – Studies in  the Historical Relationship between Western Ghana and the Dutch. M. R. Doortmont, P.  Valsecchi, and J. Anquandah (Eds). (117 – 124). Accra. Sub Saharan Publishers.

2013. Biveridge, Fritz. An Archaeological Investigation of Wassa-Dutch Interactions at Awuduwa Dada and Fort Ruychaver in the Mid Seventeenth Century. The Ankobra Gold Route – Studies in the Historical Relationship between Western Ghana and the Dutch.  M. R.      Doortmont, P. Valsecchi and J. Anquandah (Eds). (125 – 42)  Accra. Sub Saharan Publishers.

2017. Biveridge, Fritz. Fort Metal Cross: Commercial Epicenter of the British on the Gold Coast. Shadows of Empire in West Africa: New Perspectives on European Fortifications. John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu and Victoria Ellen Smith (Eds.) (201 - 37). London. Palgrave Macmillan.

 

Current Research Activities

* Conducting archaeological, ethno-historical, ethnographic and historical research at Dixcove and its environs to establish the nature, consequences and impact of Anglo-Ahanta activities on the interactants and the local economy of the region.

*Researching past cultural lifeways of the builders of the Brakwa earthworks, Brakwa, Ghana (Funded by Africa Archaeology Network, AAN).

*Undertaking historical archaeological research at Awudua Dada, Fort Ruychaver / Fort Eliza Carthago, (Western Region, Ghana) to establish the nature of Wassa-Dutch interactions, 1656 - 1700. (Funded by the Italian non-governmental organization – Ricerca Cooperazione).