At that time, in the late 1970's, people thought that town life in areas south of the Sahara only developed in the last few hundred years. Because it is an important site for our understanding of the development of civilization south of the Sahara, its slow destruction by erosion is a matter of grave concern. The World Monuments Fund has provided money to Malian archaeologists to rescue archaeological information in endangered sections of the site, and to fill in the gullies in order to stop further erosion. Malian and American members of the project team are working together toward this important goal. B ut in addition to the archaeology, the purpose of the Mali Interactive Project is to share information on another culture and way of life very different from our own in the United States.
Some people mainly think about big game animals and safaris.
In reality, Africa is amazingly diverse. He majored in archaeology at Yale University and completed his Ph.D. in archaeology at Cambridge University, England. Susan McIntosh Susan Keech McIntosh became fascinated with archaeology while a freshman at Wellesley College. She has excavated at sites in England, Sweden, Ghana, Senegal, and Mali. He now heads up the archaeology section of the Institute of Human Sciences, which is responsible for all archaeological research in the country.