About

Courses Taught:

ARCH 112: Archaeology and the African Cultural Heritage
ARCH 203: Human Origins and Cultural Foundations in Africa
ARCH 301: Archaeology and the Natural Environment
ARCH 309: Archaeology and Tourism in Ghana
ARCH 404: Cultural Resource Management
ARCH 408: Human Diversity, Conflict and Peace Management

Current Research:

Archaeological Investigation at Tando Fagusa, Koma Land, Northern Ghana (On-going Doctoral Research)
Archaeological Investigations at Yikpabongo, Koma Land, Northern Ghana
Settlement Patterns and Discard Behaviour among the Konkomba of Gbadagbam, Northern Region, Ghana

Education

B.A., MPhil., PhD (Ghana)

Research Interest

 Cultural Resource Management, Historical Archaeology and Tourism

Publications

1. Kankpeyeng, Benjamin W. and Nkumbaan, Samuel 2008. Rethinking the Stone Circles of Komaland. A Preliminary Report on the 2007/2008 Fieldwork at Yikpabongo, Northern Region, Ghana. In Timothy Insoll (ed.), Current Archaeological Research in Ghana, Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, BAR International Series 1847. Archaeopress, Oxford, England.

2. Nkumbaan, N.S. (2008): “The Archaeology of Slavery: A Study of Kasana, Upper West Region, Ghana” In Timothy Insoll (ed) Current Archaeological Research in Ghana. Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 74.

3. Nkumbaan, N.S. (2010). Defining Archaeology in Ghana: A Historical Interpretation. (In) Sinha-Kerkhoff, K. and Alatas, S. F (eds.), Academic Dependency in the Social Sciences: Structural Reality and Intellectual Challenges, Manohar Publishers, New Dehli

4. Kankpeyeng, B., Nkumbaan, S. and Insoll, T., (2011). Indigenous Cosmology, Art Forms and Past Medicinal Practices: Towards an Interpretation of Ancient Koma Land Sites in Northern Ghana. Anthropology and Medcine 18 (2): 205-216

5. Kankpeyeng, Benjamin W. and Nkumbaan, Samuel, 2009. Ancient Shrines? New Insights on the Koma Mounds, Northern Ghana. (In), S. Magnavita, L. Koté, P. Breunig, and O. A. Idé (eds.),Crossroads/Carrefour Sahel. Cultural and Technological Developments in First Millennium BC/AD West Africa, Journal of African Archaeology Monograph Series Volume 2, pp. 193-202. Africa Magna Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Frankfurt.

6. Insoll, T., Kankpeyeng, B and Nkumbaan, N. Fragmentary Ancestors? Medicine, Bodies and Personhood in a Koma Mound, Northern Ghana. In, Rountree, K. E., Morris, C., and Peatfield, A. (eds.), Archaeology of Spiritualites. New York: Springer.