Maceachern
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 40871 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Maceachern |
| APELLIDO | Maceachern |
| FIRMA | MACEACHERN |
| AFILIACIONES | Bowdoin College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4859-3998 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 246 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Nicholas David (1937–2023)
Nicholas David (1937–2023)
It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of our dear friend, colleague and mentor, Dr Nicholas David, on Wednesday, 11 January 2023. Nic died peacefully in his home with his wife, Judy
Abubakar Sule Sani
Boko Haram et Haman Yaji
Les monts Mandara à la frontière entre le Nigéria et le nord du Cameroun sont l’une des régions du bassin tchadien qui a le plus souffert des déprédations de Boko Haram. Cependant, pour les habitants, cette violence n’est pas nouvelle : ils reconnaissent instantanément en Aboubakar Shekau, leader présumé de Boko Haram, un autre ennemi redouté du passé en la personne d’Haman Yaji. Ce dernier était un chef peul qui, au tournant du xxe siècle, a par…
Boko Haram, bandits and slave-raiders
Boko Haram is a religiously motivated insurgency with a complex history in Nigeria and origins in urban Maiduguri. Through most of its existence Boko Haram has shown an affinity for border regions: the frontier zones between Nigeria and Niger, the Mandara Mountains on the border with Cameroon, and the shorelines and islands of Lake Chad. This paper argues that this is an historically mediated process. Boko Haram as a borderland phenomenon echoes …
Thurston, Alexander, Boko Haram
Iron Age landscape changes in the Benoué River Valley, Cameroon
The introduction of agriculture is known to have profoundly affected the ecological complexion of landscapes. In this study, a rapid transition from C 3 to C 4 vegetation is inferred from a shift to higher stable carbon ( 13 C/ 12 C) isotope ratios of soils and sediments in the Benoué River Valley and upland Fali Mountains in northern Cameroon. Landscape change is viewed from the perspective of two settlement mounds and adjacent floodplains, as w…
Stephen A. Dueppen
Community Archaeology and Heritage in Africa
Iron Age Landscapes of the Benue River Valley, Cameroon
The Iron Age settlements of northern Cameroon were dispersed across the landscape, taking advantage of different eco-climatic zones to exploit a variety of natural resources. Situated at the interface of the upper and lower terraces of the Benue River, mound sites in the area around Garoua have occupation histories spanning multiple centuries. The site of Langui-Tchéboua displays evidence for rapid accumulation of sediments approximately 700 year…
The mutability of mobility
This collection of papers amply illustrates the potentials of different engagements with concepts of mobility in Africanist archaeology. All five are impressive examinations of a variety of differe
Ethnoarchaeology as slow science
In recent years, the purpose and objectives of ethnoarchaeology have been called into question. In this paper, we propose that ethnoarchaeology might best be considered a form of 'slow science' that works to counterbalance 'big science/fast science' approaches in archaeology. We consider the interpretative challenges facing archaeology and the risks posed by a shift to fast science approaches that emphasize large-scale, strategic and analytically…
African models in global histories
This chapter explains where Africa can be located in global human histories and especially archaeologies, and will argue that this intellectual positioning of Africa may stem at least in part from continuing Western assumptions about the passage of time or its lack in African societies. Archaeological research in Africa is certainly not disseminating assumptions of evolutionary stasis and timelessness among sub-Saharan African populations in the …
Ethnoarchaeology
This book is the proceedings of a conference on ethnoarchaeology held in Rome in May 2010, with particularly strong representation of researchers from Italy, Spain, France, and Greece. Like many co
The archaeology and ethnography of Central Africa
Scott MacEachernBowdoin College, Maine, United States of [email protected]© 2014, Scott MacEachern
Iron Artefacts from the DGB-1 Site, Northern Cameroon
In 2008, a number of iron artefacts were recovered from an interior courtyard on the DGB-1 site during fieldwork in 2008. DGB-1 is a large multi-function site located in the northeastern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon, and dating to the mid-second millennium AD. The iron artefacts recovered included a cache of spear/arrow points found buried under a living floor, as well as a local hoe and a chain and a ‘barrette’ probably not of local provenance.…
Monumental architecture in mountain landscapes
The DGB sites are complexes of dry-stone terraces and platforms in the Mandara Mountains of northern Cameroon. They constitute the earliest well-established evidence for human occupation of this region and raise important questions about the nature of monumentality, relationships with social complexity and areal culture history. The present state of knowledge of the DGB sites and questions arising are summarised and reviewed. While it appears tha…
Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa
This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using historical and archaeological perspectives on landscape, this collection of essays sheds light on how involvement in the commercial revolutions of the early modern period dramatically reshaped the regional contours of political organization across West Africa. The essays examine how social and political transformations oc…
The Holocene History of the Southern Lake Chad Basin
Wandala and the DGB sites
The DGB sites, with their striking dry-stone architecture, are the largest and among the earliest archaeological sites in the northern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon. Even given their size and internal complexity, they provide only ambiguous messages about what power and authority might have looked like in the region five centuries ago. At the same time, these sites are situated in proximity to the heartland of the Wandala polity, which was first …
Graham Connah
This special issue of Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa contains papers written in honour of Graham Connah, one of the most widely known and widely respected of Africanist archaeologists an
Enslavement and Everyday Life
The northern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon have been a focus of slave raiding for the past five centuries, according to historical sources. Some captives from the area were enslaved locally, primarily in Wandala and Fulbe communities, while others were exported to Sahelian polities or further abroad. This chapter examines ethnohistorical and archaeological data on nineteenth- and twentieth-century slave raiding, derived from research in montagnar…
Thoughts on É. Zangato & A.F.C. Holl's “On the Iron Front”
Seeing like an oil company's CHM programme
James Ferguson's 2005 article 'Seeing Like an Oil Company' powerfully described the development of resource-extraction enclaves in African states, and the complex landscape of globally integrated and excluded territories that such enclaves produce. In this article I discuss the experience of doing cultural heritage management within one such enclave: the patchwork of protected camps, rights-of-way and air-conditioned Land-Cruisers associated with…
Two thousand years of West African history
Genes, Tribes, and African History
Over the past 40 years, traditional perspectives on the constitution of human groups have been subjected to stringent critique within anthropology. This began with the dismantling of accepted "race" divisions after World War II and continued with analyses of the meaning and reality of African "tribal" distinctions from the 1960s until the present. Archaeologists, ethnographers, linguists, and historians of Africa now work within a research milieu…
Ethnoarchaeology as slow science
In recent years, the purpose and objectives of ethnoarchaeology have been called into question. In this paper, we propose that ethnoarchaeology might best be considered a form of 'slow science' that works to counterbalance 'big science/fast science' approaches in archaeology. We consider the interpretative challenges facing archaeology and the risks posed by a shift to fast science approaches that emphasize large-scale, strategic and analytically…
Selling the Iron for their Shackles
The Muslim Wandala state controlled large areas of the plains south of Lake Chad between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries a.d. The Wandala also engaged in an extremely complex, and often hostile, set of relations with the inhabitants of the Mandara Mountains, which bordered their state to the south and closely adjoined successive Wandala capitals. These Wandala – montagnard relationships had diverse economic, ritual, political and military…
Symbolic reservoirs’ and inter-group relations
Foreign countries
Ethnoarchaeology
This book is the proceedings of a conference on ethnoarchaeology held in Rome in May 2010, with particularly strong representation of researchers from Italy, Spain, France, and Greece. Like many co
Seeing like an oil company's CHM programme
James Ferguson's 2005 article 'Seeing Like an Oil Company' powerfully described the development of resource-extraction enclaves in African states, and the complex landscape of globally integrated and excluded territories that such enclaves produce. In this article I discuss the experience of doing cultural heritage management within one such enclave: the patchwork of protected camps, rights-of-way and air-conditioned Land-Cruisers associated with…
Komé to Ebomé
Over the past five years, archaeological survey and excavation has been undertaken in southern Chad and Cameroon, as the result of a cultural heritage management agreement between the governments of the two countries, the World Bank and a consortium of international oil companies. These initiatives were undertaken as part of the Chad Export Project, which involved the construction of an oil pipeline from Komé in southern Chad to the Atlantic coas…
Cultural resource management and Africanist archaeology
Among the general public, the extraordinarily important role played by cultural resource management (hereafter CRM) procedures in the conservation of archaeological materials usually goes unrecognized. Popular images of the swashbuckling adventures of Indiana Jones, or somewhat more generally of intrepid archaeologists making the latest Fiild of the Century, do not accord well with the concept that the remains of past human activities are actual …
Africanist archaeology and ancient IQ
Over the last two decades, a number of psychometric researchers have claimed that very substantial differences in intelligence exist among modern human racial groups, as these groups are traditionally defined. According to these researchers, African populations suffer severe cognitive deficits when compared to other modern humans. Philippe Rushton, particularly, places these claimed mental deficits in an evolutionary context, advancing environmen…
Where in Africa does Africa start
For the most part, the boundaries of African Studies remain fixed at the shores of that continent, with periodic excursions into diasporic communities across the seas. The northern limits of this enquiry into `Africa' are, however, more vaguely located, placed somewhere in the Sahara when they are thought of at all. This imprecision in the northern frontiers of `Africa' is closely related to traditional conceptions of race on the continent, and e…
Early horse remains from northern Cameroon
Horses were status symbols in central-west Africa in the last millennium. Here, the importance of some very early horse bones is discussed in the context of emerging African society
Beyond the belly of the house
The northeastern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon and Nigeria are occupied at high population densities, with households spread across an abrupt mountain landscape. Ritual and political power in this area inheres to a great extent to the physical being of the mountains themselves. The exercise of such power is dispersed within mountain households, with few opportunities for aggregation of authority through control of communal activity in public spac…
Iron Technology in East Africa. Symbolism, Science and Archaeology
The Holocene History of the Southern Lake Chad Basin
Monumental architecture in mountain landscapes
The DGB sites are complexes of dry-stone terraces and platforms in the Mandara Mountains of northern Cameroon. They constitute the earliest well-established evidence for human occupation of this region and raise important questions about the nature of monumentality, relationships with social complexity and areal culture history. The present state of knowledge of the DGB sites and questions arising are summarised and reviewed. While it appears tha…
Wandala and the DGB sites
The DGB sites, with their striking dry-stone architecture, are the largest and among the earliest archaeological sites in the northern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon. Even given their size and internal complexity, they provide only ambiguous messages about what power and authority might have looked like in the region five centuries ago. At the same time, these sites are situated in proximity to the heartland of the Wandala polity, which was first …
Iron Age Landscapes of the Benue River Valley, Cameroon
The Iron Age settlements of northern Cameroon were dispersed across the landscape, taking advantage of different eco-climatic zones to exploit a variety of natural resources. Situated at the interface of the upper and lower terraces of the Benue River, mound sites in the area around Garoua have occupation histories spanning multiple centuries. The site of Langui-Tchéboua displays evidence for rapid accumulation of sediments approximately 700 year…
Iron Artefacts from the DGB-1 Site, Northern Cameroon
In 2008, a number of iron artefacts were recovered from an interior courtyard on the DGB-1 site during fieldwork in 2008. DGB-1 is a large multi-function site located in the northeastern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon, and dating to the mid-second millennium AD. The iron artefacts recovered included a cache of spear/arrow points found buried under a living floor, as well as a local hoe and a chain and a ‘barrette’ probably not of local provenance.…
Graham Connah
This special issue of Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa contains papers written in honour of Graham Connah, one of the most widely known and widely respected of Africanist archaeologists an
Selling the Iron for their Shackles
The Muslim Wandala state controlled large areas of the plains south of Lake Chad between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries a.d. The Wandala also engaged in an extremely complex, and often hostile, set of relations with the inhabitants of the Mandara Mountains, which bordered their state to the south and closely adjoined successive Wandala capitals. These Wandala – montagnard relationships had diverse economic, ritual, political and military…
Symbolic reservoirs’ and inter-group relations
Foreign countries
Iron Technology in East Africa. Symbolism, Science and Archaeology
Genes, Tribes, and African History
Over the past 40 years, traditional perspectives on the constitution of human groups have been subjected to stringent critique within anthropology. This began with the dismantling of accepted "race" divisions after World War II and continued with analyses of the meaning and reality of African "tribal" distinctions from the 1960s until the present. Archaeologists, ethnographers, linguists, and historians of Africa now work within a research milieu…
Montagnard ethnicity and genetic relations in Northern Cameroon
"Comments on Christopher Ehret, "Bantu History
Roland Oliver, Thomas Spear, Kairn Klieman, Jan Vansina, Scott MacEachern, David Schoenbrun, James Denbow, Yvonne Bastin, H. M. Batibo, Bernd Heine, Michael Mann, Derek Nurse, Simiyu Wandibba, Comments on Christopher Ehret, "Bantu History: Re-Envisioning the Evidence of Language", The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1 (2001), pp. 43-81
Cultural resource management and Africanist archaeology
Among the general public, the extraordinarily important role played by cultural resource management (hereafter CRM) procedures in the conservation of archaeological materials usually goes unrecognized. Popular images of the swashbuckling adventures of Indiana Jones, or somewhat more generally of intrepid archaeologists making the latest Fiild of the Century, do not accord well with the concept that the remains of past human activities are actual …
Early horse remains from northern Cameroon
Horses were status symbols in central-west Africa in the last millennium. Here, the importance of some very early horse bones is discussed in the context of emerging African society
Beyond the belly of the house
The northeastern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon and Nigeria are occupied at high population densities, with households spread across an abrupt mountain landscape. Ritual and political power in this area inheres to a great extent to the physical being of the mountains themselves. The exercise of such power is dispersed within mountain households, with few opportunities for aggregation of authority through control of communal activity in public spac…
Komé to Ebomé
Over the past five years, archaeological survey and excavation has been undertaken in southern Chad and Cameroon, as the result of a cultural heritage management agreement between the governments of the two countries, the World Bank and a consortium of international oil companies. These initiatives were undertaken as part of the Chad Export Project, which involved the construction of an oil pipeline from Komé in southern Chad to the Atlantic coas…
Africanist archaeology and ancient IQ
Over the last two decades, a number of psychometric researchers have claimed that very substantial differences in intelligence exist among modern human racial groups, as these groups are traditionally defined. According to these researchers, African populations suffer severe cognitive deficits when compared to other modern humans. Philippe Rushton, particularly, places these claimed mental deficits in an evolutionary context, advancing environmen…
Where in Africa does Africa start
For the most part, the boundaries of African Studies remain fixed at the shores of that continent, with periodic excursions into diasporic communities across the seas. The northern limits of this enquiry into `Africa' are, however, more vaguely located, placed somewhere in the Sahara when they are thought of at all. This imprecision in the northern frontiers of `Africa' is closely related to traditional conceptions of race on the continent, and e…
Thoughts on É. Zangato & A.F.C. Holl's “On the Iron Front”
Seeing like an oil company's CHM programme
James Ferguson's 2005 article 'Seeing Like an Oil Company' powerfully described the development of resource-extraction enclaves in African states, and the complex landscape of globally integrated and excluded territories that such enclaves produce. In this article I discuss the experience of doing cultural heritage management within one such enclave: the patchwork of protected camps, rights-of-way and air-conditioned Land-Cruisers associated with…
Enslavement and Everyday Life
The northern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon have been a focus of slave raiding for the past five centuries, according to historical sources. Some captives from the area were enslaved locally, primarily in Wandala and Fulbe communities, while others were exported to Sahelian polities or further abroad. This chapter examines ethnohistorical and archaeological data on nineteenth- and twentieth-century slave raiding, derived from research in montagnar…
Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa
This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using historical and archaeological perspectives on landscape, this collection of essays sheds light on how involvement in the commercial revolutions of the early modern period dramatically reshaped the regional contours of political organization across West Africa. The essays examine how social and political transformations oc…
The Holocene History of the Southern Lake Chad Basin
Wandala and the DGB sites
The DGB sites, with their striking dry-stone architecture, are the largest and among the earliest archaeological sites in the northern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon. Even given their size and internal complexity, they provide only ambiguous messages about what power and authority might have looked like in the region five centuries ago. At the same time, these sites are situated in proximity to the heartland of the Wandala polity, which was first …
Graham Connah
This special issue of Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa contains papers written in honour of Graham Connah, one of the most widely known and widely respected of Africanist archaeologists an
Iron Artefacts from the DGB-1 Site, Northern Cameroon
In 2008, a number of iron artefacts were recovered from an interior courtyard on the DGB-1 site during fieldwork in 2008. DGB-1 is a large multi-function site located in the northeastern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon, and dating to the mid-second millennium AD. The iron artefacts recovered included a cache of spear/arrow points found buried under a living floor, as well as a local hoe and a chain and a ‘barrette’ probably not of local provenance.…
Monumental architecture in mountain landscapes
The DGB sites are complexes of dry-stone terraces and platforms in the Mandara Mountains of northern Cameroon. They constitute the earliest well-established evidence for human occupation of this region and raise important questions about the nature of monumentality, relationships with social complexity and areal culture history. The present state of knowledge of the DGB sites and questions arising are summarised and reviewed. While it appears tha…
The archaeology and ethnography of Central Africa
Scott MacEachernBowdoin College, Maine, United States of [email protected]© 2014, Scott MacEachern
African models in global histories
This chapter explains where Africa can be located in global human histories and especially archaeologies, and will argue that this intellectual positioning of Africa may stem at least in part from continuing Western assumptions about the passage of time or its lack in African societies. Archaeological research in Africa is certainly not disseminating assumptions of evolutionary stasis and timelessness among sub-Saharan African populations in the …
Ethnoarchaeology
This book is the proceedings of a conference on ethnoarchaeology held in Rome in May 2010, with particularly strong representation of researchers from Italy, Spain, France, and Greece. Like many co
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