#1036 Roderick McIntosh: Archaeology, Urbanism, State Formation and Human Evolution in Africa
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Hello everybody, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Roderick McIntosh. He is Clayton Stephenson Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, curator of anthropology at the Peabody Museum in New Haven, and honorary distinguished professor of archaeology in South Africa. His interests are in African and Old World comparative prehistory.
the intellectual history of prehistoric archaeology, ethnicity and specialization and the origin of authority in complex societies, urbanism, geomorphology, paleoclimate, and many other subjects, and we're going to talk about a few of those today, so Dr McIntosh, welcome to the show. It's a big pleasure to have you one. And it's my pleasure to to be with you. So by reading your work, I got this idea that at least for a long time, and I'm not sure if it's still the case nowadays, in the present moment, but people in archaeology apparently haven't paid as much attention to Africa in comparison to other places. I mean, is that still the case?
And even if it's not, why is it that something like that happened? Why is it that people perhaps haven't paid much attention archaeologically to Africa? Well, I think that to answer the most immediate question. It's less the case now, but certainly compared to the Middle East and to Europe and to parts of North North America and certainly Mesoamerica. Africa is vastly underpopulated by archaeologists, and there are very few funds compared to those other areas that are devoted to to archaeology.
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