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AIMS

  • To bring together prehistorians, palaeontologists and geologists from one end of the continent to the other.
  • To provide a forum for the exchange of information and ideas.
  • To create contacts between students, researchers and practitioners across Africa and in multiple disciplines.
  • To forge links and friendships that otherwise would not exist and to facilitate and promote interAfrican collaboration.

PAA Constitution in English and French.


Published Congress Proceedings

1952 Leakey, L.S.B. (ed.) Proceedings of the Pan-African Congress on Prehistory, 1947. New York: Philosophical Library.

1955 Balout, L. (éd.) Actes du IIème Congrès Panafricain de Préhistoire d’Alger 1952. Casablanca: Edita.

1957 Clark, J.D. (ed.) Third Pan-African Congress on Prehistory, Livingstone 1955. London: Chatto & Windus.

1962 Mortelmans, G. & Nenquin, J. (éds) Actes du IVe Congrès Panafricain de Préhistoire et de l’étude du Quaternaire. Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale. Partie administrative. Section I. Géologie, paléontologie générale et climatologie. Section II. Paléontologie humaine. 4◦ mayor, VIII. Section III. Pre-et Protohistoire. Annales Série in -8◦, Sciences Humaines 40.

1966 Cuscoy, L.D. (eds) Actas del V Congreso Panafricano de Prehistoria y de Estudio del Cuaternario. II Vols. Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Museo Arqueológico.

1972 Hugo, H. (éd.) Sixieme Congrès Panafricain de Préhistoire et de l’étude du Quaternaire, Dakar 1967. Chambéry: Les Imprimeries Réunies de Chambéry.

1976 Abébé, B., Chavaillon, N. & Sutton, J.E.G. (eds) Proceedings of the Seventh Panafrican Congress of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies, 1971, Addis Ababa. Addis Ababa: Ministry of Culture.

1980 Leakey, R.E. & Ogot, B.E. (eds) Proceedings of the 8th Panafrican Congress of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies, Nairobi, September 1977. Nairobi: Louis Leakey Memorial Institute for African Prehistory.

1993 Andah, B.W., de Maret, P. & Soper, R.C. (eds) Proceedings of the 9th Congress of the PanAfrican Association for Prehistory and Quaternary Studies. Ibadan: Rex Charles Publications.

1996 Pwiti, G. & Soper, R.C. (eds) Aspects of African Archaeology: Papers from the 10th Congress of the PanAfrican Association for Prehistory and Related Studies. Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications.

2004 Sanogo, S. & Togola, T. (eds) Proceedings of the 11th Congress of the PanAfrican Association for Prehistory and Related Fields. Bamako: Institut des Sciences Humaines.