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SCOTT MACEACHERN - CURRICULUM VITAE

Professor of Anthropology Office: 207-725-3924 Department of Sociology and Anthropology Fax: 207-725-3023 Bowdoin College E-mail: smaceach@bowdoin.edu 7000 College Station Brunswick, Maine 04011 USA

EDUCATION

University of Calgary

Ph.D. in Archaeology 1991 Dissertation title: Du kunde: processes of montagnard ethnogenesis in the northern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon M.A. in Archaeology 1984 Thesis title: Cultural succession in the Neolithic of Eastern Africa University of Prince Edward Island

B.A. (Honours) in Anthropology 1980

APPOINTMENTS

Bowdoin College

Department Chair, 2003 – 2006, 2011 – 2012, 2015 – 2016, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Professor of Anthropology, 2007 – present, Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

Associate Professor of Anthropology, 2001 – 2007, Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, 1995 – 2001, Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

Université Libre de Bruxelles/Musée Royale de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren Visiting Research Scholar, September 2012 – May 2013

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Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme/École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris

Directeur d’études associés, May – June 2013

Université Laval

Professeur Associé, 2009 – 2014, Département d’Histoire. Professeur Invité, January – June, 2007, Centre d’études sur la langue, les arts et les traditions populaires (CELAT).

University of Calgary

Adjunct Professor, 1993 – 2001, 2006 – 2014, Department of Archaeology.

Sessional Instructor, 1991 – 1995, Departments of Archaeology, Anthropology and African Studies.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1993 – 1995, Department of Archaeology.

University of Calgary Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1991 – 1993, Department of Archaeology. Lecturer, 1988, Faculty of Continuing Education.

Mount Royal College, Calgary

Sessional Instructor, 1991, Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

FIELDWORK AND RESEARCH

DGB Archaeological Project. 2007-present – Director of an archaeological research project in northern Cameroon. Fieldwork in 2007, 2008, 2010/2011 and 2014.

Chad Export Project. 1999 - 2011 – Development of archaeological research programme, training and archaeological cultural heritage management along oil pipeline right-of-way for World Bank/ExxonMobil, southwestern Chad/southern Cameroon. Fieldwork 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004; other consulting work through the period.

Projet Maya-Wandala. 1992 - 1998 – Director of an archaeological and ethnohistorical research project in northern Cameroon and Nigeria. Fieldwork 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996.

Independent Research. May - July, 1987, August - September, 1991 – Archival research in the French and British colonial archives.

Old Man River Dam Project. June - November, 1990 – Archaeological fieldwork in southern Alberta, Canada.

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Fedirchuk and McCullough Associates. June - August, 1988 – Archaeological fieldwork on multiple archaeological projects in Alberta, Canada.

Mandara Archaeological Project. – Associate researcher with Dr. Nicholas David (University of Calgary). Archaeological, ethnoarchaeological and ethnohistorical research in Cameroon. Fieldwork 1984, 1986, 1989.

Mission Préhistorique au Kenya. August - September, 1983 – Archaeological fieldwork with Dr. Hélène Roche (CNRS), Isenya, Kenya.

Gonja Archaeological Project. May - September, 1982 – Surveyor and excavator for Dr. Peter Shinnie (University of Calgary), Daboya, Ghana.

Grassy Island Archaeological Project. Parks Canada, July - September, 1981 – Archaeological fieldwork in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Strathcona Archaeological Project. University of Calgary, May – July, 1981. Archaeological fieldwork in Alberta, Canada.

GRANTS AND AWARDS RECEIVED

Research grants and fellowships:

National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration Research Grant. April 2014 – April 2015. (Grant # 9494-13 - $20,180.00).

National Science Foundation Research Grant. May 2008 – May 2012. (Grant # 0743058 - $199,629.00).

Bowdoin College Kenan and Porter Sabbatical Research Fellowships. July 2006 – June 2007 and July 2012 – June 2013. ($22,000.00).

Bowdoin College Faculty Research Grants. February 1996 - October 2016. (Fourteen grants – total $42,040.00).

National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration Research Grant. May 1996 – April 1998. (Grant # 5613-96 - $6770.00).

Bowdoin College Faculty Research and Travel Grant. May – August, 1996. ($4500.00).

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Research Grant. May 1995 - April 1998. (Grant # 410-95-0379 - Can$183,000.00).

University of Calgary Short Term Research Grant. October 1994 - June 1995. (Can$3600.00).

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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Research Grant. May 1992 - April 1995. (Grant # 410-92-1860 - Can$172,000.00).

University of Calgary Short Term Research Grant. March 1992. (Can$1500.00).

University of Calgary Thesis Research Grant. August - September, 1988. (Can$2000.00).

University of Calgary Dean’s Special Research Grant. May - July 1987. (Can $1000.00).

Graduate fellowships and scholarships:

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship. May 1993 - April 1995. (Renewed once)

University of Calgary Post-Doctoral Fellowship. May 1991 - April 1992.

Province of Alberta Graduate Fellowship. June 1988 - June 1990. (Renewed twice)

Killam Honourary Scholarship. April 1986 - April 1987.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Graduate Fellowship. September 1985 - May 1988. (Renewed twice)

Province of Alberta Graduate Scholarship. September 1980 - August 1983. (Renewed twice)

ACTIVITIES FOR PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND JOURNALS

Society of Africanist Archaeologists:

President (2014-2016), Recording Secretary (2012-2014) and Treasurer (1996-2000).

Chair, Ethics Committee, 2004 - 2006.

Society for American Archaeology:

International Government Affairs Committee: Chair (2017-2020) and member (2013-2017).

International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management

(ICAHM):

Vice-President for Sub-Saharan Africa, 2014-present. Member of the Scientific Committee, ICAHM Conference 2017.

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Pan-African Archaeological Association:

Archaeological Conservation Advisory Committee, 2012 – present.

Member of the Scientific Committee, 18th PANAF Conference 2018.

Archaeological Institute of America:

Pomerance Science Medal Committee, 2014 – 2020.

National Lecture Program, 2009-2014, 2017-2018

Editorial duties:

Book Review Editor, African Archaeological Review, 2008 – 2012. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, African Archaeological Review, 2008 – present. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Ethnoarchaeology: Journal of Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Experimental Studies, 2008 – 2013. Member of the Conseil Scientifique, Afrique: Archéologie & Arts, 2003 – present.

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of African Archaeology, 2002 – present.

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PUBLICATIONS

Books:

(in press) Searching for Book Haram: a history of violence in Central Africa. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Lavachery, Philippe, Scott MacEachern, Tchago Bouimon and Christophe Mbida 2010 Komé – Kribi: rescue archaeology along the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline, 1999-2004 and De Komé à Kribi: archéologie preventive le long l’oléoduc Tchad-Cameroun, 1999-2004. Journal of African Archaeology Monograph Series 4 and 5. Africa Magna Verlag, Frankfurt. (English- and French-language versions).

Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings:

Livingstone Smith, Alexandre, Els Cornelissen, Olivier Gosselain and Scott MacEachern (editors) 2017 Field manual for African archaeology/ Manuel de terrain en Archéologie africaine. Online Series: Documents de Sciences humaines et sociales. Musée Royale de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren. (English- and French-language versions).

MacEachern, Scott, David Archer and Richard Garvin (editors) 1989 Households and communities: proceedings of the twenty-first annual Chacmool Conference. Chacmool Archaeological Association, Calgary.

Auger, Reginald, Margaret Glass, Scott MacEachern and Peter McCartney (editors) 1988 Ethnicity and culture: proceedings of the eighteenth annual Chacmool Conference. Chacmool Archaeological Association, Calgary.

LeMoine, Genevieve, and Scott MacEachern (editors) 1983 Carnivores, human scavengers and predators: a question of bone technology. Chacmool Archaeological Association, Calgary.

Festschrift:

Gronenborn, Detlef and Scott MacEachern 2012 Papers in honour of Graham Connah. Special issue of Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 47(3).

Video Series:

2010 ‘The Rise of Civilization’ for The Teaching Company, as part of ‘The Great Courses’ lecture series. (Forty-eight half-hour lectures on DVD, with accompanying study guide.)

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Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

(in review) L'histoire de l'Afrique et ses matérialités. In Civilisations de l’Afrique, edited by François-Xavier Fauvelle. Belin, Paris.

(in review) Africanist archaeogenetics and connections beyond the continent: opportunities and challenges. In Connections, contributions and complexity: Africa’s later Holocene archaeology in global perspective, edited by Matt Davies and Kevin MacDonald. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

(in review) Understanding distributions of Chadic languages: archaeological perspectives. In Tracing languages movements in Africa, edited by Ericka Albaugh and Kathryn de Luna. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

(in press) (Un)becoming states: their neighbours and the Wandala south of Lake Chad. In Life at the margins of the state: comparative landscapes from the Old and New World, edited by Kyle Knabb and Alicia Boswell. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.

Wright, David, Scott MacEachern, Jean-Marie Datouang Djoussou, Jungyu Choi, Jeong-Heon Choi and Carol Lang (in press) Iron Age landscapes of the Benue River Valley and uplands, Cameroon. Journal of Field Archaeology.

(in press) Settlement, burial practises and external relations in the Lake Chad Basin, 1500 BC–AD 1500. In Burials, migration and identity in the ancient Sahara and beyond, edited by Maria Carmela Gatto, David J. Mattingly, Nicholas Ray and Martin Sterry. Trans-Saharan Archaeology Volume II. Cambridge University Press and The Society for Libyan Studies, Cambridge.

MacEachern, Scott and Jerimy Cunningham 2016 Ethnoarchaeology as slow science. World Archaeology. DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2016.1260046

O’Brien, John D., Kathryn Lin and Scott MacEachern 2016 Mixture model of pottery decorations from Lake Chad Basin archaeological sites reveals ancient segregation patterns. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 283(1827). DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2824.

2015 African models in global histories. In Theory in Africa, Africa in theory: locating meaning in archaeology, edited by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Jeffrey Fleisher, pp. 19-37. Routledge Publishing, London.

2015 What was the Wandala state, and who are the Wandala? In Ethnic ambiguity and the African past: materiality, history, and the shaping of cultural identities, edited by François Richard and Kevin MacDonald, pp. 172-191. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek CA.

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Wright, David, Scott MacEachern and Jaeyoung Lee 2014 Analysis of feature intervisibility and cumulative visibility using GIS, Bayesian and spatial statistics: a study from the Mandara Mountains, Northern Cameroon. PLoS ONE 9(11): e112191. DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0112191.

MacEachern, Scott, David Scott, Jean-Marie Datouang Djoussou and Molly Carlson 2013 Iron artifacts from the DGB-1 site, northern Cameroon: metallurgical analysis and ethnoarchaeological analogies. Journal of African Archaeology 11(1): 39-54.

MacEachern, Scott and Nicholas David 2013 Monumental architecture in mountain landscapes: the diy-geɗ-bay sites of northern Cameroon. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 48(2): 241-262.

2013 Time on the timeless continent: history and archaeological chronologies in the southern Lake Chad Basin. In Big histories, human lives: tackling problems of scale in archaeology, edited by Tim Pauketat and John Robb, pp. 123-144. School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe.

Gronenborn, Detlef and Scott MacEachern 2012 Graham Connah: an archaeologist’s life in Africa and in Australia. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 47(3): 249-255.

2012 Wandala and the DGB sites: political centralisation and its alternatives north of the Mandara Mountains. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 47(3): 272-287.

2012 The Holocene history of the southern Lake Chad Basin: archaeological, linguistic and genetic evidence. African Archaeological Review 29(2): 253-271.

2012 The prehistory of the northern Mandara Mountains and surrounding plains. In Metals in Mandara Mountains’ society and culture, edited by Nicholas David, pp. 29-67. Red Sea Press, Trenton NJ.

2012 Rethinking the Mandara political landscape: enslavement, climate and an entry into history in the second millennium AD. In Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa, edited by Akin Ogundiran and J. Cameron Monroe, pp. 309-338. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

2011 The concept of race in contemporary anthropology. In Race and ethnicity: the United States and the world, 2nd edition, edited by Raymond Scupin, pp. 34-57. Prentice Hall, New York. (Revised version of chapter for first edition.)

2011 Enslavement and everyday life: living with slave raiding in the northern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon. In Slavery in Africa: archaeology and memory (Proceedings of the British Academy 168), edited by Paul Lane and Kevin MacDonald, pp. 109-124. Oxford University Press, Oxford and London.

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2010 Seeing like an oil company’s CHM programme: Exxon and archaeology on the Chad Export Project. Journal of Social Archaeology 10(3): 347-366.

2009 Before states? Mandara peripheries in the late first and early second millennia AD. In Crossroads / Carrefour Sahel. Cultural developments and technological innovations in 1st millennium BC/AD West Africa, edited by Sonja Magnavita, Lassina Koté, Peter Breunig and Oumarou Idé, pp. 205-214. Journal of African Archaeology Monograph Series 2. Africa Magna Verlag, Frankfurt.

David, Nicholas and Scott MacEachern 2008 Conclusion: the DGB Culture in broader context. In Performance and agency: the DGB sites of Northern Cameroon, by Nicholas David, pp. 142-146. British Archaeological Reports Press, Oxford.

2007 Where in Africa does Africa start? Identity, genetics and African Studies from the Sahara to Darfur. Journal of Social Archaeology 7(3): 393-412.

2006 Africanist archaeology and ancient IQ: racial science and cultural evolution in the 21st century. World Archaeology 38(1): 72-92.

Lavachery, Philippe, Scott MacEachern, Tchago Bouimon, Bienvenu Gouem Gouem, Pierre Kinyock, Jean Mbairoh and Olivier Nkonkonda 2005 Komé to Ebomé: archaeological research for the Chad Export Project, 1999 – 2003. Journal of African Archaeology 3(2):175-193.

Lavachery, Philippe, Scott MacEachern and Tchago Bouimon 2005 Cultural heritage management in Central Africa: regional survey on the Chad - Cameroon Oil Pipeline. Antiquity 79 (303). http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/maceachern/.

2004 Two thousand years of West African history. In African archaeology. A critical introduction, edited by Ann Stahl, pp. 441-466. Blackwell Publishers, London.

2003 The concept of race in contemporary anthropology. In Race and ethnicity: an anthropological focus on the United States and the world, edited by Raymond Scupin, pp. 10-35. Prentice Hall, New York.

2002 Beyond the belly of the house: space and power in the Mandara Mountains. Journal of Social Archaeology 2(2):197-219.

2002 Descent. In Darwin and archaeology: a handbook of key concepts, edited by John Hart and John Terrell, pp. 125-141. Bergin and Garvey, Westport.

2002 Residuals and resistance: languages and history in the Mandara Mountains. In When languages collide: perspectives on language conflict, language competition and language coexistence, edited by Brian Joseph, Johanna Destefano, Neil Jacobs and Ilse Lehiste, pp. 21-44. The Ohio State University Press, Columbus.

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2001 Setting the boundaries: linguistics, ethnicity, colonialism and archaeology south of Lake Chad. In Archaeology, language, and history: essays on culture and ethnicity, edited by John Terrell, pp. 79-102. Bergin and Garvey, Westport.

2001 State formation and enslavement in northern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria. In West Africa during the slave trade: archaeological and historical perspectives, edited by Christopher DeCorse, pp. 131-151. Leicester University Press, Leicester.

2001 Cultural resource management and Africanist archaeology. Antiquity 75(290):866-871.

2001 Montagnard ethnicity and genetic relations in northern Cameroon. Comment on ‘The peopling of sub-Saharan Africa: the case study of Cameroon’. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 114(4):357-360.

MacEachern, Scott, Claire Bourges and Maureen Reeves 2001 Early horse remains from northern Cameroon. Antiquity 75 (287): 62-67.

Walde, Dale, Nicholas David and Scott MacEachern 2000 Style and the identification of artifact-production systems: an explicitly scientific approach. In Clay and fire: pottery in Africa, edited by Christopher Roy, pp. 79-108. Iowa Studies in African Art 4. School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa, Iowa City.

2000 Genes, tribes and African history. Current Anthropology 41(3):357-384.

1998 Scale, style and cultural variation: technological traditions in the northern Mandara Mountains. In The archaeology of social boundaries, edited by Miriam Stark, pp. 107-131. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington.

1996 Foreign countries: the development of ethnoarchaeology in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of World Prehistory 10(3):243-304.

1994 'Symbolic reservoirs' and cultural relations between ethnic groups: West African examples. African Archaeological Review 12: 203-222.

1993 Selling the iron for their shackles: Wandala - montagnard interactions in northern Cameroon. Journal of African History 34(2): 247-270.

1992 Ethnicity and ceramic variation around Mayo Plata, Northern Cameroon. In An African commitment: papers in honour of Peter Lewis Shinnie, edited by Judy Sterner and Nicholas David, pp. 211-230. University of Calgary Press, Calgary.

David, Nicholas and Scott MacEachern 1992 The Mandara Archaeological Project: the 1984 season. In L'archéologie au Cameroun, edited by Joseph-Marie Essomba, pp. 108-132. Karthala, Paris.

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1991 Les gens de Ngolélé: an examination of prehistoric ethnic relations in the northern Mandara Mountains. In Du politique a l'économique: études historiques dans le bassin du Lac Tchad, edited by Jean Boutrais, pp. 165-192. ORSTOM, Paris.

David, Nicholas, Kodzo Gavua, Scott MacEachern and Judy Sterner 1991 Ethnicity and material culture in North Cameroon. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 15:171-178.

Handbook and Encyclopedia Entries:

2017 Genetics and archaeology/ Génétique et archéologie africaine. In Field manual for African archaeology/ Manuel de terrain en Archéologie africaine. Online Series: Documents de Sciences humaines et sociales, pp. 296-300. Musée Royale de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren.

2016 Globalization: Contact between West Africa, North Africa and Europe during the European medieval period. In The Routledge handbook of archaeology and globalization, edited by Tamar Hodos, pp. 90-103. Routledge, London.

2013 Genetics and African prehistory. Oxford handbook of African archaeology, edited by Peter Mitchell and Paul Lane, pp. 65-76. Oxford University Press, Oxford and London.

2008 ‘Central Africa: foragers, farmers, and metallurgists’. The encyclopedia of archaeology, edited by Deborah M. Pearsall, pp. 1-4. Academic Press, New York.

1997 ‘West African Iron Age’ and ‘West African ethnoarchaeology’. The encyclopedia of precolonial Africa: archaeology, history, languages, cultures and environments, edited by Joseph Vogel. pp. 240-244,425-429. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, CA.

Articles in Conference Proceedings and Newsletters:

2017 Cultural heritage management and the Chad Export Project: looking backwards and looking forwards. In Archéologie préventive et Patrimoines en Afrique Centrale. Actes de la Conférence internationale sur l’archéologie préventive le long du pipeline Tchad-Cameroun (24-26 May 2011, Yaoundé, Cameroun), edited by C. Mbida Mindzie and R.N. Asombang.

MacEachern, Scott, Jean-Marie Datouang Djoussou and Rébecca Janson 2012 Research at DGB-1 and DGB-2, northern Cameroon, 2010-2011. Nyame Akuma 78:6-16.

MacEachern, Scott, Jean-Marie Datouang Djoussou and Rébecca Janson 2010 Research at DGB-1, northern Cameroon, 2008. Nyame Akuma 73: 37-45.

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2009 Migrations dans la préhistoire: comparaison entre le bassin méridional du lac Tchad et le delta intérieur du Niger. In Migrations et mobilité dans le bassin du lac Tchad: actes du XIIIe colloque international du Réseau Méga-Tchad, edited by Henry Tourneux and Noé Woïn, pp. 69-73. IRD Éditions, Marseille.

2002 Implications of occupational travel for West African archaeology. In Ancient travelers: proceedings of the twenty-seventh Chacmool Conference, edited by Claire Allum, Jennifer Kahn, Christine Cluney and Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown, pp. 157-161. The University of Calgary Archaeology Association, Calgary.

2002 Paradoxes of contact: ethnicity and ancestry in the southern Lake Chad basin. In The archaeology of contact: processes and consequences, edited by Kurtis Lesick, Barbara Kulle, Christine Cluny and Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown, pp. 91-98. The University of Calgary Archaeology Association, Calgary.

Bourges, Claire, Scott MacEachern and Maureen Reeves 1999 Excavations at Aissa Hardé, 1995 and 1996. Nyame Akuma 51:6-13.

1998 Results of the Projet Maya-Wandala to date. In Paléoanthropologie en Afrique centrale : un bilan de l'archéologie au Cameroun, edited by M. Delneuf, J.-M. Essomba and A. Froment, pp. 299-306. Editions L’Harmattan, Paris.

1996 Iron Age beginnings north of the Mandara Mountains, Cameroon and Nigeria. In Aspects of African Archaeology: Proceedings of the Tenth Pan-African Congress, edited by Gilbert Pwiti and Robert Soper, pp. 489-496. University of Zimbabwe press, Harare.

1995 Results of Projet Maya-Wandala research to date. Bulletin du Réseau PALEANTHRAC 2:8-15.

MacEachern, Scott and Abubakar Garba 1994 Preliminary results of research by the Projet Maya-Wandala, Nigeria, 1993. Nyame Akuma 41:48-55.

1993 Archaeological research in northern Cameroon, 1992 – the Projet Maya-Wandala. Nyame Akuma 39: 7-13.

David, Nicholas and Scott MacEachern 1988 The Mandara Archaeological Project: preliminary results of the 1984 season. In Le milieu et les hommes: recherches comparitives et historiques dans le bassin du Lac Tchad, edited by D. Barreteau and H. Tourneux, pp. 51 - 80. Colloques et seminaires de l'ORSTOM, Paris.

1987 Environmental change and human populations in the Central Rift valley of Kenya. In Man and the mid-Holocene climatic optimum: proceedings of the seventeenth annual Chacmool Conference, edited by N.A. McKinnon and G.L. Stuart, pp. 153 - 166. The University of Calgary Archaeological Association, Calgary.

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Reviews and Comments:

2012-2015 Four short book reviews for CHOICE Magazine.

(in press) Review of Egalitarian revolution in the savanna: the origins of a West African political system, by Stephen Dueppen. African Archaeological Review.

2016 Commentary: The mutability of mobility. Azania: archaeological research in Africa 51(4): 531-533.

2015 Review of Ethnoarchaeology: current research and field methods, edited by Francesca Lugli, Assunta Alessandra Stoppiello and Stefano Biagetti. Ethnoarchaeology: Journal of Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Experimental Studies 7(2): 185-186.

2015 Comment on ‘Middle to Late Holocene paleoclimatic change and the early Bantu Expansion in the rain forests of West Central-Africa’, by Koen Bostoen, Bernard Clist, Charles Doumenge, Rebecca Grollemund, Jean-Marie Hombert, Joseph Koni Muluwa and Jean Maley. Current Anthropology 56(3): 373-374.

2014 Comment on ‘Emerging boundaries: social embedment of landscape and settlement divisions in northwestern Europe during the first millennium BC’ by Mette Løvschal. Current Anthropology 55(6): 742.

2014 Review of The ethnography and archaeology of Central Africa, by James Denbow. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 49(3): 432-434.

2013 Review of Making archaeology happen: design versus dogma, by Martin Carver. South African Archaeological Bulletin 68 (197): 99-100.

2012 Review of The dancing dead: ritual and religion among the Kapsiki/Higi of north Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria, by Walter E. A. van Beek. Journal of African History 53 (3): 433-434.

2010 Thoughts on E. Zangato and AFC Holl’s ‘On the iron front’. Journal of African Archaeology 8(1): 39-41.

2009 Review of Myth, ritual and metallurgy in ancient Greece and recent Africa, by Sandra Blakely. Ancient History Bulletin 23: 205-206.

2008 Review of The intestines of the state: youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon Grassfields, by Nicholas Argenti. H-Net Reviews. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=22978

2008 Review of The silence of Great Zimbabwe: contested landscape and the power of heritage, by Joost Fontein. American Antiquity 73(4):792-793.

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2005 Review of The Pygmies were our compass: Bantu and Batwa in the history of West Central Africa, early times to c. 1900 CE, by Kairn Klieman. African Studies Review 48(1):172-174.

2005 Review of The land of Houlouf: genesis of a Chadic polity 1900 BC – AD 1800, by A. Holl. American Antiquity 70(1): 194-195.

2004 Review of Researching Africa’s past: recent contributions by British archaeologists, edited by Peter Mitchell, Anne Haour and John Hobart. Journal of African History 45(3):491-492.

2004 Review of Ethnoarchaeology of Shuwa-Arab settlements, by A. Holl. Journal of African History 45(2):347-348.

2003 Review of The civilizations of Africa, by C. Ehret. Journal of African History 44(2): 342-343.

2003 Review of African civilizations (second edition), by G. Connah. Journal of African History 44(1):187-188.

2003 Review of That complex whole: culture and the evolution of human behavior, by Lee Cronk. The Human Nature Review 3:130-134. http://human-nature.com/nibbs/03/cronk.html

2002 Review of Historical archaeology in Nigeria, edited by K. Wesler. Journal of African History 43(3):506-507.

2002 Review of Vallée de l’Azawagh, Sahara du Niger, edited by F. Bernus, E. Bernus and P. Cressier. Bulletin Méga-Tchad, 2002:25-27.

2002 Review of The emperor’s new clothes: biological theories of race at the millennium, by J. L. Graves, Jr. The Human Nature Review 2:166-168. http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/graves.html

2002 Invited comment on ‘Bantu expansions: re-envisioning a central problem of early African history’, by C. Ehret. The International Journal of African Historical Studies 34(1):54-56.

2001 Review of ‘Archéologie’ in Atlas de la province Extrême-Nord Cameroun, by A. Marliac, O. Langlois and M. Delneuf. Bulletin Méga-Tchad, 2001:18-23.

1999 Review of Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268: Kulturentwicklung und Sprachgeschichte im Naturraum Westafrikanische Savanne, edited by T. Geider and Shettima Umara Bulakarima. Tribus: Jahrbuch des Linden-Museums 48:248-249.

1999 Review of Gender in African prehistory, edited by Susan Kent. American Antiquity 64(4):700-701.

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1999 Review of Iron technology in East Africa. Symbolism, science and archaeology, by Peter Schmidt. African Studies Review 41(2):145-146.

1998 Review of African material culture, edited by M.J. Arnoldi, C. Geary and K. Hardin, and Traditional metalworking in Kenya, by J. Brown. Canadian Journal of Archeology 22(1):81-84.

1994 Review of De la préhistoire à l’histoire au Cameroun septentrional, by Alain Marliac. SAHARA: Revue de Préhistoire et Histoire Sahariennes 6:219-222.

1993 Review of Nomads in archaeology, by Roger Cribb. American Antiquity 58(4): 761-762.

Research Reports and Handbooks:

2011 Preliminary report – DGB Archaeological Project field season, 2011. Report submitted to the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation, Republic of Cameroon, March 2011.

2008 Preliminary report – DGB Archaeological Project field season, 2008. Report submitted to the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation, Republic of Cameroon, September 2008.

Lavachery, Philippe, Scott MacEachern and Tchago Bouimon 2006 Projet d’Exportation Tchadien. Plan d’atténuation de l’impact archéologique: rapport final. Résultats archéologiques et interprétations préliminaires. Vols I-IV. Report submitted to the Chad Export Project and ExxonMobil Corporation.

2004 Report on site management issues, CEP Archaeology Programme – COTCO Douala, June-August 2004. Report submitted to ExxonMobil Corporation.

2004 Visitor’s report on archaeological programme – EEPCI N’Djaména, March 2004. Report submitted to ExxonMobil Corporation.

2002 Visitor’s report on archaeological programme – COTCO Douala, June 2002. Report submitted to ExxonMobil Corporation.

2002 Report on archaeological survey between the Mbéré River and Meiganga, eastern Cameroon, May – July 2001. Report submitted to ExxonMobil Corporation and Ministre de la Culture, République du Cameroun

2001 Report on archaeological road survey between Beibokoum and Doba, southern Chad, June – July, 2000. Report submitted to ExxonMobil Corporation and Ministre de la Culture, République du Tchad.

2000 Handbook on archaeological sites in the Chad Development Project area. Instructional handbook prepared for ExxonMobil Corporation. Paper and CD-ROM versions, with Powerpoint presentation.

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1999 Report on archaeological survey between Mbéré and Doba, southern Chad, April – May 1999. Report submitted to ExxonMobil Corporation and Ministre de la Culture, République du Tchad.

1996 Preliminary report -- Projet Maya-Wandala field season, 1996. Report submitted to the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Republic of Cameroon, September 1996.

1995 Preliminary report -- Projet Maya-Wandala field season, 1995. Report submitted to the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Republic of Cameroon, November 1995.

1993 Preliminary report -- Projet Maya-Wandala field season, 1993. Report submitted to the National Committee for Museums and Monuments, Federal Republic of Nigeria, April 1994.

1992 Preliminary report -- Projet Maya-Wandala field season, 1992. Report submitted to the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Republic of Cameroon, February 1993.

Theses:

2003 (1991) Du kunde: origins of montagnard ethnic groups in the northern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon. Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary. Mandaras Publishing, London, 2003. (http://www.mandaras.info/electronicISBNpublication/MacEachern_DuKunde_PhD.pdf)

1984 Cultural succession in the Neolithic of Eastern Africa. Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary.

Media Interviews and Online Essays:

2016 ‘Canteen Kopje: archaeological heritage in South Africa.’ Society for American Archaeology Government Affairs and International Government Affairs Newsletter, May 2016.

2014 ‘Africa Today.’ Maine Calling, Maine Public Broadcasting. 2013 Interview with Radio France. ‘Le monde six pieds sous terre : les défis de l’archéologie (4/4) - Construire sans détruire: l’archéologie préventive.’ October 2013.

2011 Interview with Radio Cameroun. ‘The prehistory of Cameroon’.

Mason, Timothy and Scott MacEachern 2004 Of lice & men. http://www.timothyjpmason.com/WebPages/Publications/Lice_Men.htm

2000 An hour in the life: At Aissa Dugjé with Scott MacEachern. http://archaeology.about.com/library/hour/blmaceachern.htm

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ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS/SYMPOSIA AND PUBLIC LECTURES

Conference papers (*resulting publications listed above):

2017 Social scale and domains of complexity in the southern Chad Basin. Paper to be presented at the 10th Archaeological Conference of Central Germany, Halle, October 2017.

2017 West African cultural heritage: current challenges. Paper to be presented at the biennial conference of the West African Archaeological Association, Accra, Ghana, July 2017.

Wright, David, Scott MacEachern and Stanley Ambrose 2017 Evolution of Iron Age to modern landscapes in the Benoué River Valley, Cameroon. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver BC, March 2017*.

2017 Border violence: the landscapes of Boko Haram. Keynote speech presented at the Manitoba Anthropology Students Conference, Winnipeg MB, March 2017.

2016 The other side of taboo: alternative knowledge networks in archaeology. Plenary paper presented at the annual Chacmool Conference, Calgary AB, November 2014.

2016 Heritage management in Central Africa. Paper presented at the annual conference of the European Association of Archaeologists, Vilnius, Lithuania, August 2016.

Wright, David and Scott MacEachern 2016 Iron Age Landscapes of the Benue River Valley, Cameroon. Paper presented at the biennial meetings of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Toulouse, July 2016.

MacEachern, Scott and David Wright 2016 Fieldwork on Iron Age sites of the Benoué Valley, Cameroon, 2014. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando FL, April 2016.*

2016 Time on ‘the timeless continent’: thinking about the African past. Distinguished Lecture Series, ‘New Archaeologies of Africa and Asia.’ Rollins College, Winter Park FL, April 2016.

2016 Participant in the Advising Scholars Group symposium, for the exhibition ‘Striking Iron: The Art of the African Blacksmith’, Fowler Museum, UCLA. Los Angeles CA, March 2016.

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2015 Globalisation in the Lake Chad Basin? Trade, enslavement and states, AD 800-1600. Invited paper presented at the EAA/SAA Joint Meeting, ‘Connecting Continents: Archaeological Perspectives on Slavery, Trade and Colonialism’, Curaçao, November 2015.

2105 Understanding distributions of Chadic languages: archaeological perspectives. Paper presented at the symposium ‘Mapping Language Movement in Africa’, Bowdoin College, Brunswick ME, September 2015.*

2015 Slave raiding and state formation in the Lake Chad Basin, 1000 BC – AD 1500. Invited paper presented at the conference ‘Trans-Saharans: State Formation, Migration and Trade in the Central Sahara (1000 BC - AD 1500)’, University of Leicester, Leicester UK, May 2015.

2015 Boko Haram, coupeurs de route and slave-raiding: identities and violence in a Central African borderland. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco CA, April 2015.

2014 Big science, fast science, slow science, critical science. Paper presented at the annual Chacmool Conference, Calgary AB, November 2014.*

2014 Invited participant and session discussant in the workshop ‘Advancing Archaeology and Heritage in Lesotho: Workshopping Lessons from the Metolong Dam Cultural Resource Management Project’, Roma, Lesotho, July 2014.

2014 Burial practise and settlement variability in the Lake Chad Basin, 1500 BC –AD 1500. Invited paper presented at the conference ‘Trans-Saharans: Burials, Migrations and Identity’, University of Leicester, Leicester UK, April-May 2014.*

2014 (Un)becoming states: their neighbours and the Wandala south of Lake Chad. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin TX, April 2014.*

2013 The prehistory of Egypt in Africa: beyond the Black Athena wars. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association, Baltimore MD, November 2013.

2013 Archeology and documentary information concerning labour relations in the Lake Chad Basin, AD 1500-1900. Invited paper presented in ‘Archeology and Labour Relations in Africa: A Workshop of the Global Collaboratory of Labour Relations 1500-2000’, Estoril Portugal, June 2013.

2013 Participant in the workshop ‘Cultural translations and comprehensions in African heritage management. Atelier du programme “Patrimoines Africains”’. Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, June 2013.

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2013 The defense of Gagadama: siege warfare and ethnographic knowledge. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester UK, January 2013.

2012 Challenge and contestation: an engaged Africanist archaeology for the next three decades. Paper presented at the annual Chacmool Conference, Calgary AB, November 2012.

2012 Africanist and Diaspora archaeology and archaeogenetics: opportunities and challenges. Invited paper presented at the conference ‘Connections, contributions and complexity: Africa’s later Holocene archaeology in global perspective’, McDonald Institute of Archaeology, Cambridge University, Cambridge UK, September 2012.*

2012 Centres or peripheries? The DGB sites in the culture history of the southern Lake Chad Basin. Paper presented at the Colloque Mega-Tchad, Naples, Italy, September 2012.

2012 Heritage in different contexts: the Chad Export Project and the DGB sites in Cameroon. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom Leeds, UK., September 2012.

2012 After the pipe: cultural heritage management in Central Africa after the Chad Export Project. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Toronto ON, June 2012.

2012 Recent research on the DGB-1/-2 sites, northern Cameroon. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Toronto ON, June 2012.*

2012 Rooting the San: re-inscribing African foragers in human genetic history. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association, Montréal PQ, May 2012.

2012 Monumental architecture in a monumental landscape: the DGB sites of northern Cameroon. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis TN, April 2012.*

2011 What can we say about ancient African iron metallurgy? Invited paper presented in the workshop ‘Origins, innovations and diversity in African metallurgical practices’, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2011.

2011 ‘Vue d’ensemble sur le Projet et le livre’ and ‘Comparaisons régionales’. Papers presented at the conference ‘Congrès Internationale sur l’archéologie préventive le long l’Oléoduc Tchad-Cameroun’, Yaoundé, Cameroon, May 2011.*

2011 Invited speaker in the workshop ‘Capacity building in cultural heritage management’, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK, May 2011.

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2011 Archaeology and genetics in the Lake Chad Basin. Invited participant and discussant for the conference ‘Thinking across the African past: archaeological, linguistic and genetic research on precolonial African history’, Rice University, Houston TX, March 2011.*

2010 Histoire et politique sur le site de Kuva (DGB-1), Nord-Cameroun. Paper presented at the joint meeting of the Pan-African Association of Prehistory and Assimilated Disciplines and the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Dakar, Senegal, November 2010.*

2010 Archaeological, linguistic and genetic history in the Lake Chad Basin. Paper presented at the joint meeting of the Pan-African Association of Prehistory and Assimilated Disciplines and the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Dakar, Senegal, November 2010.*

2010 African models in global histories. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG-Brown), Providence RI, April 2010.*

2010 The Chad Export Project – Cultural heritage management 101. Invited paper presented at APECA 2010, New York NY, January 2010.

2009 The Holocene occupation of the southern Lake Chad Basin: a comparison of archaeological and genetic approaches. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the African Studies Association, New Orleans LA, November, 2009.

2009 Time on the timeless continent: history and archaeological chronologies in the southern Lake Chad Basin. Invited paper presented in the School for Advanced Research (SAR) Advanced Seminar, ‘Towards a global human history: agency and the explanation of long-term change’, Santa Fe NM, September/October, 2009.*

2008 Wandala and the DGB sites: political centralisation and its alternatives north of the Mandara Mountains. Paper presented at the biennial conference of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Frankfurt, Germany, September 2008.*

2008 Archaeology and the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline: challenges and opportunities. Paper presented at the biennial conference of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Frankfurt, Germany, September 2008.

2008 Discussant in the session ‘Science and indigenous knowledge’, at the conference ‘Indigenous Environments: African and North American Environmental Knowledge and Practices Compared’. Bowdoin College, Brunswick ME, April 2008.

2008 Before states? Mandara peripheries in the late first millennium AD. Invited paper presented at the conference ‘Cultural developments and technological innovations in 1st millennium BC/AD West Africa’, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, March 2008.*

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2008 Authority and power at the DGB sites, northern Cameroon. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver BC, March 2008.

2007 Gagadama and afterward: the history of ethnicity in Mandara ethnoarchaeological research. Paper presented at the annual conference of the African Studies Association, New York NY, October 2007.

2007 What was the Wandala state? Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin TX, April, 2007.*

2007 Constructions of race and history in the Rwanda genocide. Invited paper presented at the conference ‘Rwanda: From National Disintegration to National Reunification: The Legacy of the Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda’. Lewiston ME, March, 2007.

2006 Invited participant on the panel ‘Teaching about Race from the Sub-Fields of Anthropology’, Committee on Minority Issues in Anthropology, at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA, November, 2006.

2006 Seeing like an oil company’s CRM programme: Exxon and archaeology on the Chad Export Project. Invited paper presented in the Plenary Session of the 39th annual Chacmool Conference, Calgary AB, November, 2006.*

2006 Where in Africa does Africa start? Archaeology, biology and African Studies across the Sahara. Paper presented at the biennial meetings of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Calgary AB, June 2006. (http://cohesion.rice.edu/CentersAndInst/ SAFA/emplibrary/ MacEachern,S.SAfA2006.pdf)*

2005 Migrations dans la préhistoire: comparaisons entre le bassin méridional du Lac Tchad et le Delta Intérieur du Niger. Paper presented at the Colloque Mega-Tchad, Maroua, Cameroon, November, 2005.*

2005 Discussant in the session ‘Finding the overlooked: exploring smaller social and ethnic groups in the archaeological record’, at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City UT, March 2005.

2005 Caste in West African archaeology: crucial or irrelevant? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City UT, March 2005.

2004 Archaeology of the Lake Chad Basin: cultural traditions in the late Holocene. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association, New Orleans LA, November 2004.

2004 Genetic, linguistic and material identities in the Mandara Mountains. Paper presented at the biennial meetings of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Bergen, Norway, June 2004.

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2004 Unitary identifier or fuzzy set? Testing for ‘culture’ in Chadic populations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montréal PQ, March 2004.

Kinyock, Pierre, Bienvenu Gouem Gouem, Olivier Nkonkonda, Philippe Lavachery, Tchago Bouimon and Scott MacEachern 2003 Komé to Ebomé: archaeological research for the Chad Export Project, 1999 – 2003. Paper presented at the Fifth World Archaeological Congress, Washington DC, June, 2003.*

2003 Back to Africa? Genetics, Chadic origins and trans-Saharan relations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association, Boston MA, November 2003.

2002 Invited participant in the AAA Executive Session ‘(Un)Imaginable pasts: innovation and loss in African practical repertoires’, at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans LA, November 2002.

2001 CRM, only more so: regional survey in Cameroon and Chad. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, November 2001.

2001 Genetics, ethnicity and prehistory: collisions and consequences. Paper presented at the conference ‘Scientific knowledge, culture and political economy’, Bates College, Lewiston ME, May 2001.

2000 Elusive settlements: placing households and communities around the Mandara Mountains. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco CA, November 2000.

2000 The material correlates of Wandala statehood. Paper presented at the 33rd annual Chacmool Conference, Calgary AB, November 2000.*

2000 Settlements, horses and political complexity around the Mandara Mountains. Paper presented at the biennial conference of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Cambridge, July 2000.*

1999 Living in the belly of the house: domestic and communal space around the Mandara Mountains. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago IL, March 1999.*

1999 Races and tribes in Africa: anthropological and biological perspectives. Paper presented at the Fourth World Archaeological Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, January 1999.*

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1998 Colonialisms, ethnicity and language use in the southern Lake Chad Basin. Invited paper presented at the conference ‘When languages collide: sociocultural and geopolitical implications of language conflict and coexistence’, Columbus OH, October 1998.*

1998 Excavations at Aissa Hardé, 1995 and 1996. Paper presented at the biennial conference of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Syracuse NY, May 1998.*

1997 Language distributions and culture history in the northern Mandara Mountains. Paper presented at the 30th annual Chacmool Conference, Calgary AB, November 1997.

1997 ‘Slave trade archaeology in the Lake Chad Basin’ and ‘Electronic delivery of historical documentation’. Papers presented at the SSHRC/UNESCO Summer Institute. “Identifying Enslaved Africans: The ‘Nigerian’ Hinterland and the African Diaspora”. Toronto, July 1997.

1996 Setting the boundaries: linguistics, ethnicity, colonialism and archaeology south of Lake Chad. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco CA, November, 1996.*

1996 Mandara polities and the extension of enslavement in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association, San Francisco CA, November, 1996.

1996 Political complexity around the Mandara Mountains: archaeological and ethnohistorical perspectives. Paper presented at the biennial conference of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Poznan, Poland, September, 1996.

1995 Iron Age beginnings north of the Mandara Mountains. Paper presented at the Tenth Pan-African Congress for Prehistory and Related Studies, Harare, Zimbabwe, June 1995.*

1995 Scale and stylistic variability: the case of the Mandara Mountains. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis MN, April 1995.*

1994 The archaeological implications of occupational travel in West Africa. Paper presented at the 27th annual Chacmool Conference, Calgary AB, November 1994.*

Killick, David, Nicholas David and Scott MacEachern 1994 Ethnographic studies of iron smelting in northern Cameroon. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Archaeometry, Ankara, Turkey, May 1994.

Walde, Dale, Nicholas David and Scott MacEachern 1994 Sherd characterization by multiple approaches. Paper presented at the Stanley Conference on African Art, Iowa City IA, April 1994.*

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1994 Iron Age archaeology in the southern Lake Chad Basin: the Projet Maya-Wandala 1992-1994. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Archaeological Association, Edmonton AB May, 1994.

1994 The Projet Maya-Wandala: research in Cameroon and Nigeria. Paper presented at the biennial conference of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Bloomington IN, April 1994.*

1993 Symbolic reservoirs and the construction of ethnicity: the view from the Mandara Mountains. Paper presented at the annual conference of the African Studies Association, Boston MA, December, 1993.

1993 The Projet Maya-Wandala: results of the 1992 field season. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Archaeological Association, Montréal PQ, May, 1993.*

1993 Iron Age and recent settlement patterning in northern Cameroon. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis MI, April, 1993.

1993 Blacksmiths and iron-working in the northern Mandara Mountains. Invited paper presented at the Fifth Stanley Conference on African Art, Iowa City IA, March 1993.

1993 Indigenous states, ethnographic knowledge and military operations in the Sudan. Paper presented at the Alberta Anthropology Student Conference, Calgary AB , February 1993.

1992 Paradoxes of contact: ethnicity and ancestry in the southern Lake Chad basin. Paper presented at the 25th annual Chacmool Conference, Calgary AB, November 1992.*

1992 Defining ethnicity: the Mandara example. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Archaeological Association, London, ON May 1992.*

MacEachern, Scott and Genevieve LeMoine 1992 Style visible, style invisible: artefact variation and its meaning. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Archaeological Association, London ON, May 1992.

1992 'Symbolic reservoirs' and cultural relations between ethnic groups. Paper presented at the biennial conference of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Los Angeles CA, March 1992.*

1991 Wandala since AD 1400: the development of a Sudanic state. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans LA, April 1991.

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David, Nicholas, Kodzo Gavua, Scott MacEachern and Judith Sterner 1990 Ethnicity and material culture in North Cameroon. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans LA, November 1990.*

1990 'We sold them the iron for our shackles': ambivalence in social relations in the northern Mandara Mountains. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Archaeological Association, Whitehorse, Yukon, May 1990.*

1988 Les gens de Ngolélé: an examination of prehistoric ethnic relations in the northern Mandara Mountains. Paper presented at the Colloque Mega-Tchad, Paris, September 1988.*

1988 Ethnicity and ceramic variation around Mayo Plata, northern Cameroon. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Archaeological Association, Whistler BC, May 1988.*

1987 Wandala and 'kirdi': conflict and cooperation in the Mandara Mountains. Paper presented at the 20th Chacmool Conference, Calgary AB, November 1987.

1987 Wives, wars and water-pots: ethnicity and archaeology in northern Cameroon. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Archaeological Association, Calgary AB, April 1987.

David, Nicholas and Scott MacEachern 1986 The Mandara Archaeological Project: preliminary results of the 1984 season. Paper presented at the Congrès sur l’archéologie Camerounais, Yaoundé, January 1986.*

1985 Environmental change and human populations in the Central Rift Valley of Kenya. Paper presented at the 18th Chacmool Conference, Calgary, Alberta, November 1985.*

Public Lectures and Symposia:

2017 Searching for Boko Haram. Department of History, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, March 2017.

2016 Participant in ‘A sense of place: development and heritage values’. Invited session at the World Bank Civil Society Policy Forum, Washington DC, April 2016.

2016 Stone, slaves and Boko Haram. Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stone Brook, NY, January 2016.

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The diy-ged-bay sites: monumental architecture and political power in the southern Lake Chad Basin.

Maine Archaeological Society, Brunswick, ME, October 2015 University of Southern Maine, Portland, August 2014.

Musée Royale de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium, April 2013. Deutsche Archäologische Institut, Bonn, February 2013.

The Institute of Archaeology, University College London, October 2012. Portland, OR branch of the Archaeological Institute of America, April 2012.

New Brunswick branch of the Archaeological Institute of America, Fredericton, NB, October 2010.

2015 Gallery Talk for ‘Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, October 2015.

2015 ‘Understanding Boko Haram’ and ‘Archaeogenetics’. Renaissance Weekend, Tarrytown, NY, October 2015.

2015 Participant in the symposium ‘What is Boko Haram?’ Bowdoin College, April 2015.

2015 Invited lecture, ‘Boko Haram and the Nigeria/Cameroon frontier,’ US Department of State, Washington, March 2015.

Genetics and African prehistory: possibilities and challenges. Phoenix, AZ branch of the Archaeological Institute of America, April 2014

Salem, OR branch of the Archaeological Institute of America, April 2014 Albany, NY branch of the Archaeological Institute of America, February 2012.

Lobban Lecture presented at the Worcester, MA branch of the Archaeological Institute of America, April, 2010.

2014 Heritage management in different contexts: the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline, and the DGB Archaeological Project. Archaeology Centre, University of Toronto, October 2014.

2014 What is Boko Haram? Town and College Club, Brunswick, ME, October 2014.

2014 ‘The rise of civilization’ and ‘Archaeogenetics: a primer’. Renaissance Weekend, Tarrytown, NY, October 2014.

2014 Lectures sur l’archéologie camerounaise. University de Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, July 2014.

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2014 Teaching race in cultural anthropology. Multicultural Resource Center, Amherst College, April 2014.

2014 Rooting the San: genetic phylogenies, skeletal evolution and modernity in African hunter-gatherers. Faculty Lecture Series, Bowdoin College, January 2014.

2013 Patrimoine dans les différents contextes: le Projet d'Exportation Tchadien et les sites archéologiques diy-geɗ-bay en Cameroun. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, April 2013.

2013 Études génétiques et l’archéologie africaine. Université de Paris I – Sorbonne, Paris, February 2013.

2012 ‘Human settlement in the Lake Chad Basin: archaeological, genetic and linguistic perspectives’ and ‘Ethnoarchaeology in the northern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon: the Mandara Archaeological Project’. Department of Archaeology, University of Bergen, Norway, October 2012.

2011 What genetics can tell us about the African past. Town and College Club, Brunswick, ME, October 2011.

2011 States and political power around the Mandara Mountains, Central Africa. Assumption College-HUMANARTS/Archaeological Institute of America Joint Lecture, Worcester, MA, March 2011.

2011 Now I’m really confused: archaeological excavations at DGB-1, Cameroon, 2008 and 2010-2011. Faculty Lecture Series, Bowdoin College, March 2011.

2009 The Holocene occupation of the southern Lake Chad Basin. Département d'Anthropologie, Université de Montréal, November 2009.

2009 The prehistory of DNA: comparing archaeology and genetic variation in the southern Lake Chad Basin of Central Africa. Faculty Seminar Series on DNA and History, Department of History, UCLA, Los Angeles, May 2009.

2009 Archaeology in northern Cameroon. Department of Geography and Anthropology, University of Southern Maine, April, 2009.

2008 The horses from Aissa Dugjé (PMW 642). Department of Geography and Anthropology, University of Southern Maine, March, 2008.

2008 Seeing like an oil company’s CRM programme: Exxon and archaeology on the Chad Export Project. Archaeology Workshop Series, Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University, February 2008.

2008 Cultural heritage management on the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline. Department of Anthropology/Far West Archaeology Group, University of California at Davis, February 2008.

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2008 Cultural Heritage Management and CHM oversight on the Chad Export Project. Department of Anthropology, University of Florida at Gainesville, February 2008.

2007 Archaeology in Northern Cameroon. Maine Archaeology Month, Bowdoin College, October 2007.

2007 The Diy-gid-biy sites: monumental architecture and political power in northern Cameroon. Faculty Lecture Series, Bowdoin College, September 2007

2007 Point de vue d’une compagnie pétrolière sur un programme de sauvetage: Exxon et l’archéologie du Projet d’Exportation Tchadien. Département d’Histoire, Université Laval, April - May, 2007.

2007 Excavations at Aissa Dugjé (PMW 642), 1992-1996. Department of Geography and Anthropology, University of Southern Maine, March, 2007.

2007 Ethnoarchéologie dans les Monts Mandara. Département d’Histoire, Université de Yaoundé I, January 2007.

2006 The Iron Age in Africa. Invited lecture in the series ‘Africa: Introduction to a Continent’, Trenton, ME, November 2006.

2006 Komé to Ebomé: cultural resource management in Central Africa. Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, April, 2006.

2005 Les origines des états en Afrique Centrale. Département d’Histoire, Université Laval, November 2005.

2004 Cueilleurs, éleveurs et fermiers au sud du Sahara: variabilité et complexité pendant l'Holocène. Département d’Histoire, Université Laval, November 2004.

2004 A small site in Maine: archaeology on the Bowdoin campus 1999-2004. Invited lecture, Back to School Speaker Series, Bowdoin College Reunion Weekend, June 2004.

2003 Komé to Ebomé: oil pipeline archaeology in Central Africa, 1999-2003. Faculty Seminar Series, Bowdoin College, December 2003.

2003 Becoming du kunde: social and political transformations around the Mandara Mountains, AD 1000 – AD 1900. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, February 2003.

2002 Cultural heritage management in sub-Saharan Africa. Lecture series, Department of Archaeology, University of Cape town, Cape Town, March – April 2002.

1998 The defense of Gagadama: siege warfare and ethnographic knowledge. Faculty Seminar Series, Bowdoin College, September 2008.

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1998 “Tribes”, ethnicity, colonialism and archaeology in the Lake Chad Basin. Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri at Columbia, February 1998.

1997 Early Iron Age occupations in northern Cameroon and Nigeria. Institute of Archaeology, University College London, October 1997.

1997 Archaeology and ethnoarchaeology in Central Africa: the Projet Maya-Wandala. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Prince Edward Island, March 1997.

1997 What are tribes in Africa, and why do we talk about them? Department of Anthropology, University of Maine at Orono, January 1997.

1993 Ethnoarchéologie pour les anthropologues. Lecture series, Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary, January 1993.

Conference Sessions Organised/Chaired:

2014 Moderator of the sessions ‘Complexity 1’ and ‘Farming 2’ at the joint meeting of the Pan-African Association of Prehistory and Associated Disciplines and the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Johannesburg, South Africa, July 2014.

2014 Chair and organiser of the session ‘Dynamics of trade and sociopolitical development in West Africa’ at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas, April 2014.

2012 Co-chair and organiser (with Dr. Jerimy Cunningham) of the session ‘“Now is the time for war!”: papers in honour of Nic David’ at the annual Chacmool Conference, Calgary, November 2012.

2012 Chair and organiser of the session ‘Cultural heritage management in Africa: the next 15 years’ at the biennial meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Toronto, Ontario, June 2012.

2012 Chair of a general session on archaeological themes at the annual meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association, Montréal, Québec, May 2012.

2010 Co-leader, Student Day session on ‘Issues and ethics in Africanist archaeology’, at the joint meeting of the Panafrican Association of Prehistory and Assimilated Disciplines and the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Dakar, Senegal, November 2010.

2010 Chair and organiser of the session ‘Power, society and state formation’ at the joint meeting of the Pan-African Association of Prehistory and Assimilated Disciplines and Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Dakar, Senegal, November 2010

2009 Co-chair and organiser (with Dr. Anne Mayor) of the session ‘Migration and population movements in African prehistory’, held at the annual meetings of the African Studies Association, New Orleans LA, November 2009.

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2008 Co-chair and organiser (with Dr. Detlef Gronenborn) of the session ‘Trajectories to complexity in West and East Africa: a session in honour of Graham Connah’, held at the biennial meetings of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Frankfurt, Germany, September 2008.

2004 Chair of the session ‘Ancient history in the Central and Western Sudan: archaeology, language, traditions, and the written record’ at the annual meetings of the African Studies Association, New Orleans LA, November 2004.

2004 Co-chair and organiser (with Dr. Steven Brandt) of the session 'Migrations, dispersals and identities in African archaeology’ at the biennial meetings of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Bergen, Norway, June 2004.

2004 Co-chair and organiser (with Jay Cunningham) of the session ‘Theorizing culture in ethnoarchaeology’ at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Montréal, April, 2004.

2003 Chair and organiser of the session ‘Recent developments in African archaeology’ at the 5th World Archaeological Congress, Washington DC, June, 2003.

1994 Chair of the session ‘ Slaves, blacksmiths and merchants: travelers in West African history’ at the 27th annual Chacmool Conference, Calgary, November, 1994.

1993 Co-chair and organiser (with Dr. Roderick McIntosh) of the session ‘Symbolic reservoirs in deep time’, at the annual conference of the African Studies Association, Boston, December, 1993.

1992 Co-chair and organiser (with Brian Vivian) of the session ‘Culture contact: African examples’ at the 25th annual Chacmool Conference, Calgary, November, 1992.

Faculty Advisor for the 26th annual Chacmool Conference, Calgary, November, 1993.

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REVIEWS FOR ORGANISATIONS

Grant application reviews: National Science Foundation (USA), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada), Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), Fonds National Suisse pour la Recherche Scientifique (Switzerland), Narodowe Centrum Nauki (Poland), National Geographic Society, Wenner-Gren Foundation, British Institute in Eastern Africa and EarthWatch.

Book manuscript reviews: Altamira Press, Cambridge University Press, Dumbarton Oaks Press, Indiana University Press, Ohio State University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, SAGE Publications, School for Advanced Research, Society for Historical Archaeology, Thames and Hudson, University of Arizona Press, University of Calgary Press, University of Florida Press and Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.

Journal article reviews: African Archaeological Review, African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, African Studies Review, Afrique: Archéologie & Arts, American Anthropologist, American Antiquity, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Antiquity, Applied Geography, Azania, Before Farming, Bulletin Méga-Tchad, Cahiers d'Études Africaines, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, Current Anthropology, Ethnoarchaeology, Ethnography, Historical Archaeology, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, International Journal of African Historical Studies, Journal of African Archaeology, Journal of African History, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Journal of Archaeological Research, Journal of Archaeological Science, JAS: Reports, Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, Journal of Field Archaeology, Journal of Social Archaeology, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Journal of West African History, Journal of World Prehistory, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Radiocarbon, South African Journal of Science and World Archaeology.

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TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Graduate Students

Dissertation Co-director, Rébecca Janson, Département d’Anthropologie, Université de Montréal: Frontières et identités : Étude des décors céramiques dans la région des monts Mandara et de ses plaines (Nord-Cameroun/Nord-Nigéria) à l’Âge du Fer. September, 2016. Dissertation Co-director, Jean-Marie Datouang Djoussou, Département d’Ethnologie et Patrimoine, Université Laval: Patrimoine et patrimonialisation au Cameroun : les Diy-gid-biy des Monts Mandara septentrionaux pour une étude de cas. February, 2014.

Member of the doctoral committee for five students in archaeology (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Syracuse University, University of Calgary, Indiana University), 2008-present.

Member of the comprehensive examination committee for one doctoral student in archaeology (Département d’Histoire, Université Laval), 2007.

Member of the Maîtres/Erasmus examination committee for one student in anthropology, Université de Paris I, 2013.

Advising and mentoring for five PhD-level and six MA-level graduate students (Canadian, American, Cameroonian and Chadian), 1992 – present.

Undergraduate Students

First or Second Reader in approximately 25 BA Honors Theses in Sociology/ Anthropology, Africana Studies, History and Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College, 1996 – present.

Courses Taught

Bowdoin College (1995 – present)

Anthropology 102/1150 - Introduction to World Prehistory Anthropology 1102 – Introduction to Archaeology

Anthropology 202/2020 - Essentials of Archaeology Anthropology 020/213 - Fantastic Archaeology: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology (as a First Year Seminar and an intermediate course) Anthropology 221/2222 - The Emergence of Civilization

Anthropology 226 - Ethnoarchaeology: Culture and Archaeology Anthropology 233/2533 - Peoples and Cultures of Africa

Anthropology 242 - States and the Others: Pre-Colonial Political Systems in West Africa

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Anthropology 2500 – The Landscapes of Boko Haram: Border Violence and Wealth Creation in Africa

Anthropology 256 - African Prehistory: The Last 100,000 Years Anthropology 280/2080 - Race, Biology and Anthropology

Anthropology 2901 – Archaeology of the Black Atlantic Anthropology 310/3010 - Contemporary Issues in Anthropology (capstone theory course for the Anthropology major) Twenty-three independent study courses.

Université Libre de Bruxelles (co-instructed 2012-2013)

Séminaire: Histoire et archéologie africaines (HAAR-B-450/550)

Travaux dirigés: Archéologie de l'Afrique (HAAR-B-350) University of Calgary (1991-1995)

Anthropology 203 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Anthropology 317 - Ethnographic Survey of Africa South of the Sahara African Studies 301 - Introduction to African Studies

Archaeology 205 - Ancient Peoples and Places Archaeology 395 - African Archaeology

Mount Royal College (1991)

Anthropology 1104 - Ancient Peoples and Places

BOWDOIN COLLEGE COMMITTEE SERVICE

Committee on Appointment, Promotion and Tenure. 2013-2015. (Elected by vote of College faculty. Committee Chair 2014.)

Governance and Faculty Affairs Committee. 2007-2010. (Elected by vote of College faculty. Committee Chair, 2008-2010.)

Chair, Working Group on Academic Honesty and Citation, 2010-2011.

‘Blue Tarp’ Committee. 2008-2012. (Advisory committee on financial and budgetary matters to the President of Bowdoin College.)

Ad Hoc Group on Increasing Faculty Diversity, 2008.

Steering Committee for Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Cape Town Study-Away Program. 1999-2005. (Committee Chair, 2003-2005).

Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee. 2002-2004.

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Faculty Affairs Committee. 1996-1998, 2001-2002.

Committee on Governance. 1999-2001.

Africana Studies Committee. 1996-2007.

Served in various capacities on approximately 25 faculty search committees in Sociology/Anthropology, Africana Studies, History, Asian Studies and other departments. 1996-present.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Society for American Archaeology

Canadian Archaeological Association

American Anthropological Association

Society of Africanist Archaeologists

International Heritage Group

World Archaeological Congress

African Studies Association

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