Augustin F C Holl
Biographic Data
| ID | 198907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Augustin F C Holl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Augustin F C |
| FAMILY NAME | Holl |
| SIGNATURE | HOLL A F C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Xiamen University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 123 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
From Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age
Archaeological cultural taxonomy is a practical necessity. It singles out more or less coherent patio-temporal entities and facilitates scholarly exchange and communication. However, these practical conventions tend to take an independent life of their own, and sometimes constrain creative research endeavors. It is well known that -the name is not the thing‖. Archaeological cultural taxa are relatively flexible entities, not perfectly self-contai…
Studying Africa and Africans Today
International audience
The Mobility Hypothesis
Two series of totally independent events inspired the hypothesis formulated in this paper, that “mobility is the overarching process driving human long-term biological and cultural evolution”. The first series of events consists of the tragedies of migrants’ crises triggered by combinations of different processes ranging from extreme poverty to political violence, one of the dominant aspects of the beginning of this 21st century
Building a Novel Future
Current humanity is experiencing extraordinary levels of material and ideal connectivity. Change being constant and stability exceptional and provisional; one has to expect a significant acceleration of change in the next hundred years. The core question is therefore: What kind of future is being shaped for the next generations, our grandchildren and greatgrand children? Without going too far back in time, it is fair to say that the current world…
The Oudierin Drainage Archaeological Project
Deciphering East-Side South Americans Indigenous Populations Dynamics
The impressive results of the editorial project featured in this dossier on theprehistory of the Amazon viewed from the Atlantic flank of South America outlinea scientific and ethical success story. The works presented can be seen as a vindication of Max Planck (1950) sinical views of change in science. "A new scientific truthdoes not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, butrather because its opponents eventually die…
Emergent complexity and political economy of the Houlouf polity in North Central Africa (1900 BCE-1800 CE)
Long-term socio-cultural change is a non-linear process involving demography, economy, culture, social organizations, symbols and ideas. It is generally marked by succession of social formations with different organizational requirements and 'worldviews'. The concept of emergent complexity used in this paper thus refers to the punctuated shift that led to the formation of social ranking and socio-political centralization. Five successive social f…
Ancient West African and Saharan Foragers Mortuary Practices
More than sophisticated studies of material culture remain, mortuary evidence provides access to profound insights into past and present communities lives and values [1-10]. As paradoxical as this may appears at first glance, burial is much more an issue for the living members of the communities than for the deceased individuals
Megaliths in Tropical Africa
When analyzed systematically, Tropical Africa megalithism appears to have emerged in contexts of friction between different lifeways, agriculturalists versus foragers, pastoralists versus hunter-gatherers-fishermen, or agriculturalists versus fishing folks. The monuments built were clearly part of actual territorial strategies. Research conducted by the Sine Ngayene Archaeological Project (2002-2012) frontally addressed the 'Why' of the emergence…
Dark Side Archaeology
Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais e Humanas na e sobre a África
Quais as condições para uma contribuição genuína dos africanos para o conhecimento na África e sua diáspora nas pesquisas em ciências sociais e humanidades? Como são implementadas as agendas de pesquisas e como os cânones são escolhidos? Este artigo retoma essas difíceis e intrincadas questões, baseando-se em uma abordagem de estudos científicos e experiência pessoal. A estrutura da investigação acadêmica varia consideravelmente entre os países, …
The Origins of African Metallurgies
Sustained archaeological research has been conducted in different parts of the continent from the early 1980s on. Evidence of copper and iron metallurgies is documented in the continent, in West, Central, and East Africa. Early copper metallurgies were recorded in the Akjoujt region of Mauritania and the Eghazzer basin in Niger. Surprisingly early iron smelting installations were found in the Eghazzer basin (Niger), the Middle Senegal Valley (Sen…
The Search for Takrur
Aquí vienen las novias
La cordillera montañosa del Tasili n’Ajer es bien conocida por su fenomenal riqueza en abrigos y cuevas pintados. Generaciones de investigadores han prospectado, cartografiado, dibujado y discutido diferentes facetas de estas pinturas del Tasili. La diversidad y versatilidad de las tradiciones pictóricas del Tasili hace difícil cualquier intento de generalización directa ya sea estilística o temática. Cada estación pintada parece ser única y expr…
Les processus de néolithisation
The advent of food-producing economies - agricultural and pastoral - is indeed an important step in the evolution of human societies. A number of explanatory models have been devised to explain and make sense of the processes involved in these transformations. The explanatory model offered by J. Cauvin in his last book is anchored on the "cultural reason", a revolution of symbols that presided over the formations of the earliest villages communit…
Dhar Tichitt, Walata et Nema
La zone des falaises de grès qui forme un hémicycle à l’est, au nord, et ouest de la cuvette du Hodh, dans le centre sud mauritanien, a été colonisée par de communautés d’agro-pasteurs néolithiques dès le début du IIe millénaire avant notre ère. Ils cultivaient non seulement le mil chandelle, et élevaient des bovins et des ovin-caprins, mais ils étaient aussi des pêcheurs, des chasseurs, et des collecteurs de graminées sauvages. Les empreintes de…
Grass, Water, Salt, Copper, and Others
This chapter discusses the territorial tactics and settlement strategies devised by pastoral-nomadic societies in two areas of the Central Sudan. The Eghazer basin (Niger) case study is entirely archaeological and considers processes that took place between 3000 and 800 B.C.E. The Houlouf region case study is ethnoarchaeological and looks at the site-location strategies, patterns of settlements, and structures of Shuwa-Arab villages and camps in …
On the Iron Front
The advent of copper and iron metallurgy is one of the most fascinating debate taking place in sub-Saharan Africa archaeology today. Challenging data, that may be accurate or not, are usually ignored or dismissed without serious consideration. Sustained long-term research is nonetheless changing our views on the development of iron metallurgy in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper presents new evidence from North-Central Africa, in the Djohong area in…
Early West African Metallurgies
Alain Marliac
Switching mortuary codes and ritual programs
This paper addresses a number of connected issues revolving around mortuary practices in the Senegambian megalithic traditions, through the lenses of the intriguing double-monolith-circle #27 of Sine-Ngayene, also known as Diallombere. Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation, the diversity of Senegambian megalithic features is still very poorly understood. Most of the cases investigated so far have been claimed to feature sing…
Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult
Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult: The Sanctuary at Gilat, Israel. Thomas E. Levy, ed. Oakville, CT: Equinox Publishing, 2006. 875 pp
West African Early Towns
West African Awdaghost (Tegdaoust) emerged as a vital medieval trade center before its decline in the sixteenth century AD. Extensively excavated and accompanied by a large body of published material, Awdaghost provides a unique opportunity for the application of household archaeology to a West African settlement. By examining the building sequences of the habitation complexes, with their evolving space allocations, this monograph demonstrates ho…
This is not an image, just a pretext
West African Early Towns
Early West African Metallurgies
Subsistence patterns of the Dhar Tichitt Neolithic, Mauritania
Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult
Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult: The Sanctuary at Gilat, Israel. Thomas E. Levy, ed. Oakville, CT: Equinox Publishing, 2006. 875 pp
Livestock Husbandry, Pastoralisms, and Territoriality
Switching mortuary codes and ritual programs
This paper addresses a number of connected issues revolving around mortuary practices in the Senegambian megalithic traditions, through the lenses of the intriguing double-monolith-circle #27 of Sine-Ngayene, also known as Diallombere. Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation, the diversity of Senegambian megalithic features is still very poorly understood. Most of the cases investigated so far have been claimed to feature sing…
The Dawn of African Pastoralisms
On the Iron Front
The advent of copper and iron metallurgy is one of the most fascinating debate taking place in sub-Saharan Africa archaeology today. Challenging data, that may be accurate or not, are usually ignored or dismissed without serious consideration. Sustained long-term research is nonetheless changing our views on the development of iron metallurgy in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper presents new evidence from North-Central Africa, in the Djohong area in…
The cemetery of Houlouf in northern Cameroon (AD 1500–1600)
Mound formation processes and societal transformations
Time, Space, and Image Making
Grass, Water, Salt, Copper, and Others
This chapter discusses the territorial tactics and settlement strategies devised by pastoral-nomadic societies in two areas of the Central Sudan. The Eghazer basin (Niger) case study is entirely archaeological and considers processes that took place between 3000 and 800 B.C.E. The Houlouf region case study is ethnoarchaeological and looks at the site-location strategies, patterns of settlements, and structures of Shuwa-Arab villages and camps in …
The Oudierin Drainage Archaeological Project
Aquí vienen las novias
La cordillera montañosa del Tasili n’Ajer es bien conocida por su fenomenal riqueza en abrigos y cuevas pintados. Generaciones de investigadores han prospectado, cartografiado, dibujado y discutido diferentes facetas de estas pinturas del Tasili. La diversidad y versatilidad de las tradiciones pictóricas del Tasili hace difícil cualquier intento de generalización directa ya sea estilística o temática. Cada estación pintada parece ser única y expr…
Southern Africa and the Swahili World. Studies in the African Past 2
Background to the Ghana empire
Subsistence patterns of the Dhar Tichitt Neolithic, Mauritania
Analyse archéologique de la céramique
Mound formation processes and societal transformations
Les sociétés chalcolithiques de la Palestine et l'émergence des chefferies
Des données en nombre croissant montrent que dès la fin du Vemillénaire B.C., les sociétés de la Palestine ont connu de profondes transformations sociales et technologiques. Certaines d'entre elles sont attestées par l'apparition de lieux de culte, de sanctuaires et de cimetières, par la spécialisation artisanale, et la métallurgie, en relation avec une formidable augmentation de la population et l'organisation de sites en entités hiérarchisées a…
Social issues in Saharan prehistory
The cemetery of Houlouf in northern Cameroon (AD 1500–1600)
Egyptian-Canaanite Interaction at Nahal Tillah, Israel (ca. 4500-3000 B. C. E.)
The nature of the Dynasty 0-Dynasty I Egyptian presence in southern Israel has been a source of debate since the excavations of Tel Erani on the fringe of the northern Negev in the 1950s when numerous Egyptian artifacts were discovered. Since then, a wide range of models have been used to characterize the nature of Egyptian-Canaanite relations. These models include warfare/conquest, commercialization, distance parity, and world systems. The recen…
Livestock Husbandry, Pastoralisms, and Territoriality
The Dawn of African Pastoralisms
Rural Settlement Structure and African Development
Rural Settlement Structure and African Development. Marilyn Silberfein. ed. Dunmore, PA: Harper Collins, 1998. 338 pp
Ancient African Metallurgy
Gold. Copper. Iron. Metal working in Africa has been the subject of both popular lore and extensive archaeological investigation. In this volume, four leading archaeologists attempt to provide a complete synthesis of current debates and understandings: When, how and where was metal first introduced to the continent? How were iron and copper tools, implements, and objects used in everyday life, in trade, in political and cultural contexts? What ro…
Migrations, Ethnogenesis, and Settlement Dynamics
Time, Space, and Image Making
Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara, Vol. 2
Southern Africa and the Swahili World. Studies in the African Past 2
West African Early Towns
West African Awdaghost (Tegdaoust) emerged as a vital medieval trade center before its decline in the sixteenth century AD. Extensively excavated and accompanied by a large body of published material, Awdaghost provides a unique opportunity for the application of household archaeology to a West African settlement. By examining the building sequences of the habitation complexes, with their evolving space allocations, this monograph demonstrates ho…
This is not an image, just a pretext
West African Early Towns
African Connections
Switching mortuary codes and ritual programs
This paper addresses a number of connected issues revolving around mortuary practices in the Senegambian megalithic traditions, through the lenses of the intriguing double-monolith-circle #27 of Sine-Ngayene, also known as Diallombere. Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation, the diversity of Senegambian megalithic features is still very poorly understood. Most of the cases investigated so far have been claimed to feature sing…
Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult
Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult: The Sanctuary at Gilat, Israel. Thomas E. Levy, ed. Oakville, CT: Equinox Publishing, 2006. 875 pp
Early West African Metallurgies
Alain Marliac
On the Iron Front
The advent of copper and iron metallurgy is one of the most fascinating debate taking place in sub-Saharan Africa archaeology today. Challenging data, that may be accurate or not, are usually ignored or dismissed without serious consideration. Sustained long-term research is nonetheless changing our views on the development of iron metallurgy in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper presents new evidence from North-Central Africa, in the Djohong area in…
Geography (30 works) · Archaeology (27 works) · History (26 works) · Sociology (15 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (14 works) · History (12 works) · Ancient history (10 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (10 works) · Ethnology (9 works)