Jean-Baptiste Kiéthéga is an

archeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

and

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

from Upper Volta, currently

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to ...

. Kiéthéga was born on May 10, 1947, in Yako. He is considered to be one of the first archeologists of West Africa. In course of his career, he was honored with a Prince Claus Award yet in 1998 for his progressions in archeology. At that time he had trained around 40 young scholars in this field, and has taken care that his research was made public in the academic world, as well as to the public via for instance museums.Prince Claus Fund
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/ref> According to Kiéthéga archaeological research in a developing country like Burkina Faso should not be seen as luxury. He views culture as a dynamic concept. Since 2005 he is a professor at the

University of Ouagadougou Founded in 1974, the University of Ouagadougou (UO; french: Université de Ouagadougou) is in the area of Dagnöen Nord (pronounced dag-no-en noor) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It was officially renamed in 2015 as l’Université Ouaga 1 Profes ...

Bibliography

*1980: ''L'exploitation traditionelle de l'or sur la rive gauche de la Volta noire : (region de poura - Haute-Volta)'', with Jean Devisse *1983: ''L'or de la Volta noire: archéologie et histoire de l'exploitation traditionnelle, région de Poura, Haute-Volta'', , later reprinted *1989: ''La Recherche archeologique au Burkina Faso'' *1993: ''Découverte du Burkina Faso (Annales des conférences organisées par le Centre culturel français Georges Méliès de Ouagadougou, 1991-1992)'', *1993: ''État des recherches sur la production traditionnelle du fer au Burkina Faso'' *2008: ''La métallurgie lourde du fer au Burkina Faso: une technologie a l' epoque pre-coloniale''. Karthala, Paris,

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Burkinabé historians Burkinabé scientists Living people 1947 births People from Nord Region (Burkina Faso) Academic staff of the University of Ouagadougou Burkinabé archaeologists 21st-century Burkinabé people {{Archaeologist-stub