Recherches préhistoriques en Côte d’Ivoire : non-développements récents sur le site d’Anyama (district d’Abidjan)

Abstract

This review paper presents an inventory of prehistoric sites from Ivory Coast, highlighting the issues with Stone Age sites protection policy. Beyond this inventory of the main known sites, we emphasize the current state of the classified Anyama site which shows quite well the deficiencies of institutional, legislative, and funding mechanisms for research on the Stone Age of Ivory Coast. Our methodological approach combines archaeological documentary research with an analysis of Ivorian legislation on cultural heritage. The crosschecking of these multiple data enables, among other results, to underline recent advances and non-developments of prehistoric archeology in Ivory Coast.