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Nigerian Archaeologist, Dr Lasisi, recognized Internationally as He receives the 2023 SAF Field Discovery Award

Dr. Olanrewaju Lasisi of the University of Virginia has won the 2023 SAF Field Discovery Award, presented by the Shanghai Archaeology Forum. His project, "Landscapes of Power: Architecture, Ritual, and Astronomy in the Making of the Yoruba World," investigates the link between social structure, rituals, and astronomy in the ancient Yoruba civilization. With a unique approach combining archaeology with ethnography, and archaeoastronomy, Dr. Lasisi has offered invaluable insights about Ijebu-Yoruba Kingdom's power dynamics, urbanism, and cosmology.

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Under the Ancient African Sky: The Resounding Echoes of Yoruba Archaeoastronomy

Picture this! You stand in the midst of an age-old Yoruba cityscape as twilight creeps over the horizon. The simmering West African sun paints the sky in hues of purple and gold, giving way to a resplendent celestial panorama. You sense an ancient connection, a dialogue between earth and sky, culture and cosmos, echoed in …

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Olanrewaju Lasisi Awarded 2022 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Awards Support Early-Career Scholars in the Final Year of PhD Dissertation Writing

Thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a 2022 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. The fellowship supports doctoral students in the humanities and interpretive social sciences with a year of funding to facilitate the completion of projects that will form the foundations of their scholarly careers. This program is made possible by a grant from …

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Landscape in the Making-GLS Symposium

I will be speaking at the Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium, in partnership with the Mellon Initiative in Urban Landscape Studies. Dumbarton Oaks, May 6  –  7, 2022 Symposiarchs: Stephen Daniels (University of Nottingham), Dell Upton (University of California, Los Angeles), and Thaïsa Way (Dumbarton Oaks) How might historians narrate landscape design within broader human …

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