Scott MacEachern

Professor of Anthropology

On leave of absence for the 2012-13 academic year.

Spring 2012

  • Peoples and Cultures of Africa (AFRS 233)
  • Introduction to World Prehistory (ANTH 102)
  • Intermediate Independent Study in Anthropology (ANTH 291)
Phone 725-3924
Title Professor
Department Sociology And Anthropology
Work Location 205 Adams Hall
E-Mail smaceach@bowdoin.edu
Scott MacEachern

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

Komé - Kribi: Rescue Archaeology Along the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline, 1999-2004 Monograph Series Volume 42010     Komé – Kribi: rescue archaeology along the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline, 1999-2004/ De Komé à Kribi: archéologie preventive le long le oléoduc Tchad-Cameroun, 1999-2004. With Philippe Lavachery, Tchago Bouimon and Christophe Mbida. Journal of African Archaeology Monograph Series Volumes 4 and 5 (separate English and French versions). Africa Magna Verlag, Frankfurt.  

2010   Seeing like an oil company’s CHM programme: Exxon and archaeology on the Chad Export Project. Journal of Social Archaeology 10(3): 457-476. ( http://jsa.sagepub.com)

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.

chadLavachery, 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.

archaeology2004 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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darwin2002 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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social boundariesMacEachern, 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

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

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

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Scott MacEachern (R), with Bienvenu Gouemgouem (L) and Pierre Kinyock (C)
on a survey in eastern Cameroon, 2001.

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