Browsing by Author "MacEachern, S"
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A cache of iron artifacts from the DGB-1 site, northern Cameroon: metallurgical analysis and ethnoarchaeological analogies
(Journal of African Archaeology, 2013) -
African models in global histories
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Analysis of Feature Intervisibility and Cumulative Visibility Using GIS, Bayesian and Spatial Statistics: A Study from the Mandara Mountains, Northern Cameroon
(PLoS ONE, 2014-11-10)The locations of <italic>diy-geδ-bay</italic> (DGB) sites in the Mandara Mountains, northern Cameroon are hypothesized to occur as a function of their ability to see and be seen from points on the surrounding landscape. ... -
Boko Haram, bandits and slave-raiders: identities and violence in a Central African borderland
(Canadian Journal of African Studies, 2020-05-03)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 ... -
Ethnoarchaeology as slow science
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Iron Age landscape changes in the Benoué River Valley, Cameroon
(Quaternary Research (United States), 2019-09-01)Copyright © 2019 University of Washington. Published by Cambridge University Press. The introduction of agriculture is known to have profoundly affected the ecological complexion of landscapes. In this study, a rapid transition ... -
Iron Age Landscapes of the Benue River Valley, Cameroon
(Journal of Field Archaeology, 2017-09-03)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 ... -
Mixture model of pottery decorations from Lake Chad Basin archaeological sites reveals ancient segregation patterns
(Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2016-03-30)We present a new statistical approach to analysing an extremely common archaeological data typeâ potsherdsâ that infers the structure of cultural relationships across a set of excavation units (EUs). This method, applied ... -
Monumental architecture in mountain landscapes: the diy-geδ-bay sites of northern Cameroon
(Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 2013-06)
