Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of Calgary (Canada) 1991
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Archaeogenetics
  • Archaeology
  • Archaeology and history
  • Cultural Heritage Management
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • Chad (Country) 
    • Ghana (Country) 
    • Nigeria (Country) 

  • Research

    • Cameroon (Country) 

  • Teaching

    • China (Country) 
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • MacEachern, Scott. Searching for Boko Haram A History of Violence in Central Africa. Oxford University Press, 2018.
    • Lavachery, P., S. MacEachern, T. Bouimon, and C. Mbida. Komé – Kribi: rescue archaeology along the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline, 1999-2004/ De Komé à Kribi: archéologie preventive le long l'Oléoduc Tchad-Cameroun, 1999-2004. Frankfurt: Africa Magna Verlag, 2010.

  • Academic Articles

    • MacEachern, S. “Boko Haram, bandits and slave-raiders: identities and violence in a Central African borderland.” Canadian Journal of African Studies 54, no. 2 (May 3, 2020): 247–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2019.1700142.
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    • Lipson, Mark, Isabelle Ribot, Swapan Mallick, Nadin Rohland, Iñigo Olalde, Nicole Adamski, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht, et al. “Ancient West African foragers in the context of African population history.” Nature 577, no. 7792 (January 22, 2020): 665–70. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-1929-1.
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    • Wright, D. K., S. MacEachern, S. H. Ambrose, J. Choi, J. H. Choi, C. Lang, and H. Wang. “Iron Age landscape changes in the Benoué River Valley, Cameroon.” Quaternary Research (United States) 92, no. 2 (September 1, 2019): 323–39. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2019.25.
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    • MacEachern, Scott. “States and their genetic consequences in central Africa.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116, no. 2 (January 2019): 356–57. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1819609116.
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    • Wright, D. K., S. MacEachern, J. Choi, J. H. Choi, C. Lang, and J. M. D. Djoussou. “Iron Age Landscapes of the Benue River Valley, Cameroon.” Journal of Field Archaeology 42, no. 5 (September 3, 2017): 394–407. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2017.1358017.
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    • MacEachern, Scott. “Stephen A. Dueppen: Egalitarian Revolution in the Savanna: The Origins of a West African Political System.” African Archaeological Review 34, no. 2 (June 2017): 297–98. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-017-9251-5.
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    • Cunningham, Jerimy J., and Scott MacEachern. “Ethnoarchaeology as slow science.” World Archaeology 48, no. 5 (October 19, 2016): 628–41. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2016.1260046.
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    • MacEachern, Scott. “The mutability of mobility.” Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 51, no. 4 (October 1, 2016): 531–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2016.1233764.
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    • O’Brien, John D., Kathryn Lin, and Scott MacEachern. “Mixture model of pottery decorations from Lake Chad Basin archaeological sites reveals ancient segregation patterns.” Proceedings. Biological Sciences 283, no. 1827 (March 2016): 20152824. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2824.
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    • Wright, David K., Scott MacEachern, and Jaeyong Lee. “Analysis of feature intervisibility and cumulative visibility using GIS, Bayesian and spatial statistics: a study from the Mandara Mountains, northern Cameroon.” Plos One 9, no. 11 (January 2014): e112191. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112191.
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    • MacEachern, Scott, David A. Scott, Molly O’Guinness Carlson, and Jean-Marie Datouang Djoussou. “Iron Artefacts from the DGB-1 Site, Northern Cameroon: Conservation, Metallurgical Analysis and Ethnoarchaeological Analogies.” Journal of African Archaeology 11, no. 1 (October 25, 2013): 39–54. https://doi.org/10.3213/2191-5784-10230.
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    • MacEachern, Scott, and Nicholas David. “Monumental architecture in mountain landscapes: thediy-geδ-baysites of northern Cameroon.” Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 48, no. 2 (June 2013): 241–62. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2013.790653.
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    • MacEachern, S., D. Scott, J. Datouang Djoussou, and M. Carlson. “A cache of iron artifacts from the DGB-1 site, northern Cameroon: metallurgical analysis and ethnoarchaeological analogies.” Journal of African Archaeology 11, no. 1 (2013): 39–54.
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    • MACEACHERN, S. C. O. T. T. “DWELLING AND BELONGING IN THE MANDARA MOUNTAINS - The Dancing Dead: Ritual and Religion among the Kapsiki/Higi of Northern Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria. By Walter E. A. van Beek. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xii-345. $99, hardback (ISBN 9780199858149).” The Journal of African History 53, no. 3 (November 2012): 433–34. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853712000655.
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    • Gronenborn, Detlef, and Scott MacEachern. “Graham Connah: an archaeologist's life in Africa and in Australia.” Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 47, no. 3 (September 2012): 249–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2012.708992.
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    • MacEachern, Scott. “Wandala and the DGB sites: political centralisation and its alternatives north of the Mandara Mountains, Cameroon.” Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 47, no. 3 (September 2012): 272–87. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2012.707480.
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    • MacEachern, Scott. “The Holocene History of the Southern Lake Chad Basin: Archaeological, Linguistic and Genetic Evidence.” African Archaeological Review 29, no. 2–3 (September 2012): 253–71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-012-9110-3.
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    • MacEachern, S., J. M. Datouang Djoussou, and R. Janson. “Research at DGB-1 and DGB-2, northern Cameroon, 2010-2011.” Nyame Akuma 78 (2012): 6–16.
    • MacEachern, Scott. “Seeing like an oil company’s CHM programme.” Journal of Social Archaeology 10, no. 3 (October 2010): 347–66. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469605310378801.
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    • MacEachern, Scott. “Thoughts on É. Zangato & A.F.C. Holl's “On the Iron Front”.” Journal of African Archaeology 8, no. 1 (June 2010): 39–41. https://doi.org/10.3213/1612-1651-10159.
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    • MacEachern, S., J. Datouang Djoussou, and R. Janson. “Excavations at DGB-1, northern Cameroon, 2008.” Nyame Akuma 73 (2010): 37–45.
    • MacEachern, S. "The Silence of Great Zimbabwe: Contested Landscapes and the Power of Heritage." American Antiquity 73, no. 4 (October 1, 2008): 792-793. (Review)  Full Text  Link to Item
    • MacEachern, Scott. “Where in Africa does Africa start?” Journal of Social Archaeology 7, no. 3 (October 2007): 393–412. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469605307081399.
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    • MacEachern, Scott. “Africanist archaeology and ancient IQ: racial science and cultural evolution in the twenty-first century.” World Archaeology 38, no. 1 (March 2006): 72–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438240500509918.
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    • Lavachery, Phillippe, Scott MacEachern, Pierre Kinyock, Jean Mbairo, Bienvenu Gouem Gouem, Tchago Bouimon, and Olivier Nkonkonda. “KOMÉ TO EBOMÉ: ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FOR THE CHAD EXPORT PROJECT, 1999-2003.” Journal of African Archaeology 3, no. 2 (October 25, 2005): 175–93. https://doi.org/10.3213/1612-1651-10049.
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    • Lavachery, P., S. MacEachern, T. Bouimon, B. Gouem Gouem, P. Kinyock, J. Mbairo, C. Mbida, and O. Nkokonda. “Cultural heritage management in Central Africa: regional survey on the Chad - Cameroon oil pipeline.” Antiquity 79, no. 303 (2005).
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    • MacEachern, Scott. “The Land of Houlouf: Genesis of a Chadic Polity 1900 BC–AD 1800. Augustin Holl. 2002. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Number 35. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, xvi + 271 pp., figures, tables, appendix, bibliography. $30.00 (paper).” American Antiquity 70, no. 1 (January 2005): 194–95. https://doi.org/10.2307/40035281.
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    • MACEACHERN, S. C. O. T. T. “THE STATE OF AFRICANIST ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN Researching Africa's Past: New Contributions from British Archaeologists. Edited by PETER MITCHELL, ANNE HAOUR and JOHN HOBART. Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2003. Pp. viii+152. £40 (ISBN 0-947816-58-5).” The Journal of African History 45, no. 3 (November 2004): 491–92. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853704219934.
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    • MACEACHERN, S. C. O. T. T. “DESCRIBING MATERIAL CULTURAL AND SPATIAL PATTERNS Ethnoarchaeology of Shuwa-Arab Settlements. By AUGUSTIN HOLL. Lanham MD: Lexington Books, 2003. Pp. xiii+422. $85 (ISBN 0-7391-0407-1).” The Journal of African History 45, no. 2 (July 2004): 347–48. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853704429442.
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    • MACEACHERN, S. C. O. T. T. “HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS AND AFRICAN HISTORY The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. By CHRISTOPHER EHRET. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia; Oxford: James Currey 2002. Pp. xii+480. $50 (ISBN 0-8139-2084-1); $22.50; £18.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-475-3).” The Journal of African History 44, no. 2 (July 2003): 342–43. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853703228553.
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    • MACEACHERN, S. C. O. T. T. “African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective. Second edition. By GRAHAM CONNAH. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xv+340. $65 (ISBN 0-521-59309-3); $23, paperback (ISBN 0-521-59690-4).” The Journal of African History 44, no. 1 (March 2003): 145–94. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853703498484.
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    • MacEachern, S. “Beyond the belly of the house: space and power in the Mandara Mountains.” Journal of Social Archaeology 2, no. 2 (2002): 179–219.
    • MacEachern, Scott. “Cultural resource management and Africanist archaeology.” Antiquity 75, no. 290 (December 2001): 866–71. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00089444.
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    • MacEachern, S. “Montagnard ethnicity and genetic relations in Northern Cameroon: comment on "the peopling of sub-Saharan Africa: the case study of Cameroon," by G. Spedini et al.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 114, no. 4 (April 2001): 357–60. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1048.
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    • MacEachern, Scott, Claire Bourges, and Maureen Reeves. “Early horse remains from northern Cameroon.” Antiquity 75, no. 287 (March 2001): 62–67. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00052728.
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    • Oliver, Roland, Thomas Spear, Kairn Klieman, Jan Vansina, Scott MacEachern, David Schoenbrun, James Denbow, et al. “Comments on Christopher Ehret, "Bantu History: Re-Envisioning the Evidence of Language".” The International Journal of African Historical Studies 34, no. 1 (2001): 43–43. https://doi.org/10.2307/3097286.
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    • MacEachern, S. “Genes, Tribes, and African History.” Current Anthropology 41, no. 3 (June 2000): 357–84. https://doi.org/10.2307/3596485.
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    • Bourges, C., S. MacEachern, and M. Reeves. “Excavations at Aissa Hardé, 1995 and 1996.” Nyame Akuma 51 (1999): 6–13.
    • MacEachern, Scott. “Foreign countries: The development of ethnoarchaeology in sub-Saharan Africa.” Journal of World Prehistory 10, no. 3 (September 1996): 243–304. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02286418.
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    • Maceachern, Scott. “‘Symbolic reservoirs’ and inter-group relations: West African examples.” The African Archaeological Review 12, no. 1 (December 1994): 205–24. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01953043.
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    • Maceachern, Scott. “Selling the Iron for their Shackles: Wandala–Montagnard Interactions in Northern Cameroon.” The Journal of African History 34, no. 2 (July 1993): 247–70. https://doi.org/10.1017/s002185370003334x.
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    • Stone, Glenn Davis. “: Households and Communities: Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Chacmool Conference . Scott MacEachern, David J. W. Archer, Richard D. Garvin.” American Anthropologist 95, no. 2 (June 1993): 478–79. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1993.95.2.02a00440.
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    • MacEachern, S. “Archaeological research in northern Cameroon, 1992: the Projet Maya-Wandala.” Nyame Akuma 39 (1993): 7–13.
    • MacEachern, S. “Ethnicity and stylistic variation around Mayo Plata, northern Cameroon.” African Commitment: Papers in Honor of Peter Lewis Shinnie, 1992, 211–30.
    • David, N., S. MacEachern, J. Sterner, and K. Gavua. “Ethnicity and material culture in north Cameroon.” Canadian Journal of Archaeology 15 (1991): 171–77.

  • Book Sections

    • MacEachern, S. “Globalization: Contact between West Africa, North Africa and Europe during the European medieval period.” In Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization, edited by T. Hodos, 90–103. London: Routledge, 2016.
    • MacEachern, S. “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 F. Richard and K. MacDonald, 172–91. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2015.
    • MacEachern, S. “African models in global histories.” In Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory: Locating Meaning in Archaeology, edited by S. Wynne-Jones and J. Fleisher, 19–37. London: Routledge, 2015.
    • MacEachern, Scott. “Genetics and Archaeology.” Oxford University Press, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199569885.013.0005.
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    • MacEachern, S. “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 T. R. Pauketat and J. Robb, 123–44. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press, 2013.
    • MacEachern, S. “The prehistory and early history of the northern Mandara Mountains and surrounding plains.” In Metals in Mandara Mountains’ Society and Culture, edited by N. David, 29–67. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2012.
    • MacEachern, Scott. “Enslavement and Everyday Life: Living with Slave Raiding in the North-Eastern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon.” In Slavery in Africa. British Academy, 2011. https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264782.003.0006.
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    • MacEachern, S. “Two thousand years of West African history.” In African Archaeology: A Critical Introduction, edited by A. Stahl, 441–66. London: Blackwell, 2005.
    • MacEachern, S. “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 B. Joseph, J. Destefano, N. Jacobs, and I. Lehiste, 21–44. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2002.
    • MacEachern, S. “State formation and enslavement in the southern Lake Chad Basin.” In West Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeological Perspectives, edited by C. DeCorse, 130–51. London: Leicester University Press, 2001.
    • MacEachern, S. “Setting the boundaries: linguistics, ethnicity, colonialism, and archaeology south of Lake Chad.” In Archaeology, Language, and History: Essays on Culture and Ethnicity, edited by J. Terrell, 79–101. Westport: Bergin & Garvey, 2001.
    • MacEachern, S. “Scale, style, and cultural variation: technological traditions in the northern Mandara Mountains.” In The Archaeology of Social Boundaries, edited by M. Stark, 107–31. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.
    • MacEachern, S. “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 G. Pwiti and R. Soper, 489–95. Harare: University of Zimbabwe Press, 1996.
    • David, N., and S. MacEachern. “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, 51–80. Paris: Editions de l’ORSTOM, 1988.
    • MacEachern, Scott. “Rethinking the Mandara Political Landscape: Cultural Developments, Climate, and an Entry into History in the Second Millennium A.D.” In Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa, 309–36. Cambridge University Press, n.d. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511921032.016.
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  • Other Articles

    • MacEachern, S. “The Origin of Civilization.” Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2010.
    • MacEachern, S. “Du Kunde: processes of montagnard ethnogenesis in the northern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon.” Mandaras Publishing, London, n.d.
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  • Reports

    • MacEachern, S. “Report on archaeological road survey between Beibokoum and Doba, southern Chad, June - July, 2000.” Report submitted to ExxonMobil Corporation, 2001.
    • MacEachern, S. “Report on archaeological survey between Mbéré and Doba, southern Chad, April - May 1999.” Report submitted to ExxonMobil Corporation, 1999.

  • Conference Papers

    • MacEachern, S. “The material correlates of Wandala statehood.” Calgary, 2000.

  • Theses and Dissertations

    • MacEachern, S. “Du kunde: processes of montagnard ethnogenesis in the northern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon.,” 1991.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • K_CULANT 315: Why Be a Bandit? 2021
  • K_HIST 315: Why Be a Bandit? 2021

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