ABSTRACT
It is our uncanny capacity to summon the past in the present, to evoke presence from things that makes archaeology akin to magic. In Equatorial Guinea, as in many other African countries, witches are those who can speak with ancestors and they do so by abolishing the distance between past and present. They create a third space, made of both. Archaeologists also engender these third spaces (milieux de mémoire), simultaneously in the past and in the present.
