Noemie Arazi

• PhD
• Senior Researcher at Royal Museum for Central Africa

During the months of May and June 2016 archaeological investigations were carried out in the Maniema Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which until then constituted unexplored territory. Until now the area's history was only known as far as the 19th century, with the establishment of the slave and ivory trades by Swahili-Arabs from t...

History, archaeology and memory of the Swahili-Arab in the Maniema, Democratic Republic of Congo - Volume 94 Issue 375 - Noemie Arazi, Suzanne Bigohe, Olivier Mulumbwa Luna, Clément Mambu, Igor Matonda, Georges Senga, Alexandre Livingstone Smith

Archaeological resources constitute the major source material for the study of the pre-colonial history of most African countries and have largely contributed to revising Africa’s portrayal as the ‘dark continent’. Instead, over the past century, archaeology has placed Africa at the forefront of all major debates in world prehistory and history inc...

This paper approaches the safeguarding of Africa’s physical cultural resources in the context of development cooperation, infrastructure and environmental management. I focus on the World Bank’s physical cultural resource policy, as it constitutes to this day the most comprehensive tool for mitigating the adverse impacts of infrastructure developme...

African Pottery Roulette Past and Present: Techniques, Identification and Distribution considers ethnographic, museological and archaeological approaches to pottery-decorating tools called roulettes, that is to say short lengths of fibre or wood that are rolled over the surface of a vessel for decoration. This book sets out, for the first time, a s...

Much of Africa's archaeological heritage is under threat, partly as a result of modernisation and development. The current boom in infrastructural projects is causing an acceleration of irreversible destruction. This paper focuses on appropriate measures and action to minimise damage or loss through archaeological impact assessments (AIAs), subcomp...

The three settlement mounds of Dia, located at the western edge of the Inland Niger Delta of Mali, are known from oral and written sources to represent one of the oldest urban sites in the region, older even than the much better known cities of Djenne and Timbuktu. Archaeological excavations at the earliest mound Dia-Shoma have confirmed that notio...

This report presents the results of an archae- ological reconnaissance conducted during January and February of 1996 in eastern Mali in the area south of the Niger Bend'. The prime concern of this survey was to collect basic data on open-air sites in a region which has never received any systematic archaeological investigation until now, despite fe...

Book description: L’ensemble du Delta intérieur du Niger occupe une place centrale dans l’histoire des grands royaumes 'médiévaux' de l’Afrique de l’Ouest: le Ghana/Wagadu, le Mali et le Songhay. Des milliers de sites archéologiques de cette région constituent les seuls témoins de cet essor. Ces sites sont menacés par un pillage systématique qui es...