HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTER OF AFRICA

Central african archeology is generally very poorly studied, and different areas are explored very evenly. He described how important the size of the area was, and the presence at its center of the vast equatorial forest. The main section of items of cultural material, contained in the museum's collections, represents yourself if not counting finds with some unearthed material lifting site, gathered in some cases enough for a long time. A serious problem is the shortage of archaeologists, working on these very large spaces. Into the same before the most recent time here in no way organized scientific excavations were carried out. Often learning toys or different areas is limited to collecting the most interesting samples from the surface. Based on this - often beautiful, but in larger parts fragmented - material without maturing the prominent wisdom of cultural archeology, too many hastily established connections with finds from other parts of africa and even from regions per outside the continent.area learning archeology began in the xix in. Scientists hope to find here cultural prehistory, which could be compared with the famous cultural complexes in europe. The first experiment in this direction was carried out in 1899 ks. Neater. However, systematic excavations did not begin until 1925. G. Di gombe puen (kalina) in kinshasa. Vel them and. Dab. At the first results in central africa, primitive historical material was discovered and studied in sequence stratigraphy. Archaeological location of the center of africa, it's in the book colette's excavations served as a starting point for further research, but their significance was hindered by the success that fell into many of the "tumba culture theories" proposed by o. Mapgan in gomself in the year, when colette began their research. Based on this theory, based on the simple removal of material from southern zaire, the entire prehistory of the african center point was presented as the only one archaeological culture of origin is rather late. Furthermore the curbstone culture is divided into several types, and the material is correlated with the more well-known cultures of east and south africa.
The first pan-african congress on ancient stories, held in nairobi in 1947, did not recommend the use of the term "tumba culture", nor did colet's provision of the introduction. Are other proposed terms: "sango culture" and "lupembe culture", but their content is not always clearly defined. Then these names are used in relation to most various cultures while how the same culture often appears with different names. At the fourth pan-african congress held in kinshasa in 1959 g., g. Mortelman proposed a new terminology, which was accepted by the majority of participants. This terminology is used in the given book.
The original scientific research in central africa actually only started after the second world war. Systematic research is currently being carried out by jd clark in zambia and angola; r. De primadona des ermen in the central african republic; j. Nanken in zaire, rwanda and burundi; g. Mortelman, dan. De heinselin and h. Van moorsel in zaire; excavations in gabon led by the gabon society researchers of prehistoric and protohistorical periods. At zaire active research work began in 1970 g. On the basis of the national institute of museums.
Our knowledge, however, is still very incomplete. Although cotlett was the first to initiate a valid scientific methodology, setting the next stratigraphic cultural horizon, his examples are rarely followed. On the results many areas of central africa are still very under-explored. Often our knowledge is based on lifting materials.