Archaeology holds great potential to enrich and enhance culturally responsive school learning within and beyond Africa. Archaeology reveals hidden and forgotten history and brings long-term perspective to contemporary issues like those foregrounded by the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through inquiry that combines scientific methods with cultural understandings, archaeology sheds light on how people in past societies related to one another and with communities around them. It provides evidence of how people sustained well-being, interacted with resources on which they relied, and engaged with wider landscapes. It lends insight into daily practices as well as long-term perspectives on how people affected their environments and how environments shaped people’s actions. Given its wide scope and interdisciplinary foundations, archaeology holds recognized potential to engage young learners in cross-curricular areas including social studies, literary works, language, sciences, mathematics, and the arts. Archaeology should therefore contribute substantively to Quality Education (SDG 4), particularly when archaeologists braid western knowledge with other perspectives grounded in the communities and places where archaeologists work. As a source for culturally responsive teaching, archaeology provides powerful knowledge that helps learners to understand diverse cultures and perspectives and to appreciate how the past can inform the present and set appropriate courses for the future. Realizing this potential requires that archaeologists and educators communicate and collaborate in new ways if we are to provide students with engaging and meaningful learning opportunities.

考古学在丰富和加强非洲国内外学校学习的文化响应方面具有巨大潜力。考古学揭示了隐藏和被遗忘的历史，并为当代问题（例如联合国可持续发展目标（SDG）所强调的问题）提供了长远的视角。通过将科学方法与文化理解相结合的探究，考古学揭示了过去社会中的人们如何相互联系以及与周围社区的联系。它提供了人们如何维持福祉、与他们所依赖的资源互动以及参与更广泛的景观的证据。它提供了对日常实践的洞察以及对人们如何影响他们的环境以及环境如何塑造人们的行为的长期观点。鉴于其广泛的范围和跨学科基础，考古学具有公认的潜力，可以吸引年轻学习者参与社会研究、文学作品、语言、科学、数学和艺术等跨学科领域。因此，考古学应该对优质教育（SDG 4）做出实质性贡献，特别是当考古学家将西方知识与考古学家工作的社区和地方的其他观点结合起来时。作为文化响应式教学的来源，考古学提供了强大的知识，帮助学习者了解不同的文化和观点，并了解过去如何影响现在并为未来设置适当的课程。如果我们要为学生提供有吸引力且有意义的学习机会，那么考古学家和教育工作者就必须以新的方式进行沟通和合作，才能实现这一潜力。