Dr Samuel Amartey

Research interests

West African archaeology and history, particularly the impacts of the Atlantic World on West African societies, cultural resources management, archaeology of ritual, religion, and therapy, economic anthropology, social theory, ethnomedicine, and general analytic philosophy.

Courses currently taught

ARCH 325: Foragers and farmers in West Africa’s prehistory

ARCH 321: Archaeology and the natural environment

Current Projects

1. Long-term perspectives on Island/mainland interactions along the Pra River, southern Ghana
2. Sierra Leone Estuary during the Atlantic Slave Trade
3. Therapeutic practices in a nineteenth-century sanatorium at Aburi

Publications-in-progress

1. Amartey Samuel (n.d.) Annotated list of dissertations, Master’s thesis, and long essays as a scholar’s resource in the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at the University of Ghana (in preparation).

Book manuscript in preparation

2. Working Title (n.d.) “Heritage Ghana: History through materials, landscape, and monuments”

Publications under review

1. Kotso Laryea, Ruth and Samuel Amartey (under review) Healing the missionaries and colony: Therapeutic entanglements at the Basel Mission sanatorium at Aburi, Ghana (Ghana Studies).

Peer-reviewed publications

1. Abrampah, David Akwasi Mensah, Wazi Apo, Kodzo Gavua, Mark Henry Freeman, Samuel Amartey, David Adjartey Tei-Mensah & George Anokye (2015). Assessing the Bui Dam Salvage Archaeology Project and Cultural Heritage of Impact Communities. Ethnographisch-archäologische Zeitschrift (EAZ) 56 (1/2): 275-294
2. Kankpeyeng Benjamin, Natalie Swanepoel, Timothy Insoll, Samuel Nkumbaan, Samuel Amartey, and Malik Saako. (2013). Artifacts speak. Insights into past ritual practices at Yikpabongo, Northern Region, Ghana. African Archaeological Review, 30(4): 475-499.

Newsletter publications

1. Appiah-Adu, Siaw, Agbelusi, Oluseyi O., Amartey, Samuel, Okanlawon, David A. (2021).  Pandemic or plandemic: Graduate study and research the COVID era Society for Black Archaeologists Newsletter No. 2: 21-23
2. Amartey, Samuel (2021).  A multi-component settlement site in the Shama hinterland, southern Ghana Nyame Akuma No. 96: 20-25.
3. Amartey, Samuel (2013). Nyanaoase, Akwamu: Further Archaeological Investigation Nyame Akuma No. 79: 121-133.
4. Amartey, Samuel and Reid, Sean H. (2014). Terrestrial and maritime cultural landscapes of the Atlantic World in the Sierra Leone Estuary. Nyame Akuma No. 82: 3-11.
5. Amartey, Samuel (2017). The Archaeology of Supomu Island (Ghana) and the Atlantic Trade. Nyame Akuma No.88: 27-32
6. Reid, Sean H. and Samuel Amartey (2019). Archaeology, GIS, and remote sensing near the Pra River, Southern Ghana. Central Region Project Update 2015-2017:  Nyame Akuma 91:15-22