Scott MacEachern
Professor of Anthropology
Spring 2008
- Peoples and Cultures of Africa (AFRS 233)
- Race, Biology, and Anthropology (AFRS 280)
- Intermediate Independent Study in Anthropology (ANTH 292)
| Phone | (207) 725-3924 |
| Title | Professor |
| Department | SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY |
| Work Location | 102 Riley House |
| smaceach@bowdoin.edu |
Scott MacEachern specializes in African archaeology and ethnoarchaeology; research involves the study of state formation and ethnicity in Iron Age Central Africa.
Education
B.A. (Prince Edward Island)
M.A., Ph.D. (Calgary)
Recent Publications
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 and Tchago Bouimon
2005 Cultural heritage management in Central Africa: regional survey on the Chad - Cameroon Oil Pipeline. Antiquity 79(303).
Lavachery, Philippe, Scott MacEachern, Tchago Bouimon, Bienvenu Gouem Gouem, Pierre Kinyock, Jean Mbairoh, Christophe Mbida and Olivier Nkonkonda.
2005 Komé to Ebomé: archaeological research for the Chad Export Project, 1999 - 2003. Journal of African Archaeology 3(2):175-193.
2004 Two thousand years of West African history. In African archaeology. A critical introduction, edited by Ann Stahl, pp. 441-466. Blackwell Publishers, London.
2002 Beyond the belly of the house: space and power in the Mandara Mountains. Journal of Social Archaeology 2(2):197-219.
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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.
2001 Setting the boundaries: linguistics, ethnicity, colonialism and archaeology south of Lake Chad. In Language, archaeology and culture history: essays on language and ethnicity in prehistory, edited by John Terrell, pp. 79-102. Bergin and Garvey, Westport.
2001 Cultural resource management and Africanist archaeology. Antiquity 75(290):866-871.
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2000 Genes, tribes, and African history. Current Anthropology 41(3):357-384.
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MacEachern, Scott, Claire Bourges and Maureen Reeves
2001 Early horse remains from northern Cameroon. Antiquity 75 (287): 62-67.
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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.
Fieldwork And Research
Chad Development Project. April, 1999 - present - Establishment of archaeological research programme, training and archaeological survey along oil pipeline right-of-way for World Bank/ExxonMobil, southwestern Chad/eastern Cameroon.
Projet Maya-Wandala. May, 1992 - present - 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.
Mandara Archaeological Project. January - August, 1984, January - December, 1986, May - July, 1989 - Associate researcher with Dr. Nicholas David (University of Calgary). Archaeological, ethnoarchaeological and ethnohistorical research in Cameroon.
Fieldwork Photos
Scott MacEachern (R), with Bienvenu Gouemgouem (L) and Pierre Kinyock (C)
on a survey in eastern Cameroon, 2001.
More fieldwork photos from:
- Northern Cameroon (1986-1996)
- Eastern Cameroon (2001)
- Southern Chad (1999-2002)
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