Answer to Question #270620 in History for little dinny

Question

In what ways can Archaeology, Anthropology and Linguistics enrich history writing in Africa? 

Answer 1

The disciplines of archaeology, anthropology, and linguistics are vital in writing African history in various ways. Archeology helps to provide evidence through excavation of ancient tools and fossils. The artefacts and fossils provide information about the past through different methods, such as chemical dating.

Anthropology helps to remove ethnocentric features from history. It brings African societies into consideration, and disapproves the eurocentric bias on African history. It leads Africans back to their original culture.

Finally, linguistics provide historic models that show the development historical events and processes that took place among language groups.