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This is the second summer that University students \u2013 led by professors Renato Perucchio, Michael Jarvis, and Chris Muir \u2013 are studying the engineering, historical, and cultural aspects of the coastal forts of Ghana. They will be sharing their experiences from the field here on this blog.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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By Samantha Turley \u201918 (T5)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Discovering Ghana:<\/strong><\/a> Follow the stories of University of Rochester students studying the engineering, architecture, archaeology, and culture of the coastal forts of Ghana.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The moment I booked my plane ticket back to Ghana and my summer as a teaching assistant for the Digital Heritage of West African Monuments Field School, the end of May couldn\u2019t come fast enough. After working in Professor Perucchio\u2019s lab all year with the data we collected during the last field season, I was so excited to return to the Elmina Castle. The multitude of questions that arose from our year of lab work could only be explored and resolved while at the castle itself, so I came prepared with a long list of questions and goals!<\/p>\n

From the moment I left the airport, however, I was reminded of all the other reasons why I missed Ghana so much. To start, the people are so kind. My flight arrived in Accra at 2:30 a.m., and a customs officer lent me his phone to call someone in our program to come pick me up because it was too late at night to purchase minutes for my phone.<\/p>\n

Whether I was in a medical clinic and my doctor talked more about my opinions on the World Cup (as we all know, both the U.S. and Ghana did not make it to the World Cup) than my cold, or if I was outside Elmina Castle talking about art initiatives for kids with the local painters, everyone was enthusiastic about making a connection.<\/p>\n

When our group would walk to the Cape Coast market in the evenings (to buy fresh mangoes and avocados, another one of my favorite things about Ghana), we\u2019d occasionally end up in conversations with shop owners that went beyond, \u201cdo you have Oreos?\u201d They would want to know our names, if we were married, and why we were in staying at the University of Cape Coast campus. Everyone seemed interested in our work with the castle (especially the immigration officer who stamped my passport in the Accra airport\u2014I hope he gets the Master\u2019s degree in history that he was telling me about!) The kindness and openness of Ghanaians is lovely thing to experience, but it also makes me think about my place in the research we\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

My job as a TA is not just to continue to learn, but to assist in the learning of those around me. It\u2019s my responsibility that the University of Rochester students on our field school develop as both researchers and world citizens. It\u2019s my responsibility to fulfill the founding principle of our field school that all knowledge and skills will be shared in a collaboration with University of Ghana faculty and students. \u00a0As a white woman with a varied background in archaeology, engineering, and music, my practical skills can help the castle today. I can oversee the manual surveys, assist in the ethnographies, and teach students and locals about our total station and FARO laser scanner.<\/p>\n

However, the most help I can do for the preservation and heritage of Elmina castle, Fort Amsterdam, and the other slave castles along of the coast of Ghana is to teach others how they can study and care for the castle tomorrow.\u00a0 Partly, this comes down to skills\u2014not everyone knows (or can be expected to know!) how to draw architectural drawings or analyze the structural health of a building. Not everyone knows how to navigate Agisoft (our software of choice for photogrammetry) or FARO SCENE (our software of choice for our laser scans). But this also comes down to showing to others that our research is a relevant, important time commitment.<\/p>\n

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Fort Amsterdam, shown here, has \u201ccrumbled drastically\u201d since its last reconstruction in the 1980s, writes Samantha Turley. \u201cWe can study Elmina and the other castles on the coast as much as we like, but unless we can get others to listen to our results, no changes can be made, no preventative steps can be taken, no new information about the history of the castle can be used.\u201d (University of Rochester photo \/ Samantha Turley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Research that is not read or valued does not have much point. For example, Fort Amsterdam has crumbled spectacularly since its latest reconstruction in the 1980s. Instead of addressing Fort Amsterdam\u2019s real problem (unstable foundation and constant soil erosion) in the reconstruction, builders added new walls, rooms, and a bastion to the skeleton of the structure. While I don\u2019t know if an engineer was consulted during the reconstruction or not, I do know that a structural analysis would have revealed the tenuous condition of the foundations. Either this analysis was given and then ignored or it was not thought to be done in the first place. Both options do a disservice to the people of Ghana who paid for the monument and the communities that live near the fort or those who value it for its historical significance in the slave trade and period of European control of the coast.<\/p>\n

We can study Elmina and the other castles on the coast as much as we like, but unless we can get others to listen to our results, no changes can be made, no preventative steps can be taken, no new information about the history of the castle can be used. I\u2019m not just talking about the GMMB\u2014the incredibly accommodating Ghana Monument Management Board that makes our study of Elmina and the others possible\u2014I\u2019m talking about the community members who could help us with our research and the tour guides who can add the information that we unearth into their castle tours.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, I made a pact with myself during the past few weeks that I should be as open and accommodating as possible with anyone who has a question about our work. Going forward, I\u2019m challenging myself to be a better advocate for the Ghanaian researchers and students who deserve the opportunities I have had to study the castle in variety of ways. I don\u2019t have all the answers as to how this will play out, but I know I need to try. It\u2019s an important step in connecting our work to the communities these castles affect most.<\/p>\n

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The question of relevance draws archaeology close to music. In my four years at Eastman, the question that always ran through the heads of my peers and I was, \u201chow can I make what I do relevant? How can I make people care about this instrument\/music style\/playing technique that I have devoted my life to?\u201d To me, the motivation for creating music is the same as the motivation for studying the world as an archaeologist\u2014to connect with people using our variety of skills in order to discover new things and bring new ideas and experiences to people so they can understand the world in a new way.<\/p>\n

It might be that Ghana has taught me more lessons than I have taught to others while I\u2019ve been there. (Indeed, I\u2019ve learned enough for a lifetime.) But the beauty about our research is that it\u2019s not going anywhere. Elmina Castle is over 500 years old. It is in far, far better condition than Plymouth Plantation, 150 years younger and just a two-hour drive from where I grew up in Connecticut. Other students, professionals, and I have many years ahead of us in which we can work to tip the balance so we have given far more than we have gotten to the heritage monuments of West Africa.<\/p>\n

Samantha Turley is a teaching assistant for the Ghana field school and a Take Five student studying Urban Planning. A former dual degree student in Harp Performance at the Eastman School of Music and the program in Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures in the College at the University of Rochester, Sam enjoys reading, hiking, playing music with her friends, and exploring new restaurants in the Rochester area. She is incredibly excited to have returned to Ghana for another field season.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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