Journal ArticleScience advances · March 2023
Previous studies have highlighted how African genomes have been shaped by a complex series of historical events. Despite this, genome-wide data have only been obtained from a small proportion of present-day ethnolinguistic groups. By analyzing new autosoma ...
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Chapter · February 15, 2023
Explores recent multi-disciplinary approaches to analysis of early political organization, its development from simple to complex political structures and the rise of the political state. ...
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Journal ArticleNature · November 2021
We are a group of archaeologists, anthropologists, curators and geneticists representing diverse global communities and 31 countries. All of us met in a virtual workshop dedicated to ethics in ancient DNA research held in November 2020. There was widesprea ...
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Journal ArticleCanadian Journal of African Studies · May 3, 2020
Boko Haram is a religiously motivated insurgency with a complex history in Nigeria and origins in urban Maiduguri. Through most of its existence Boko Haram has shown an affinity for border regions: the frontier zones between Nigeria and Niger, the Mandara ...
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Journal ArticleNature · January 2020
Our knowledge of ancient human population structure in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly prior to the advent of food production, remains limited. Here we report genome-wide DNA data from four children-two of whom were buried approximately 8,000 years ago an ...
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Journal ArticleQuaternary Research United States · September 1, 2019
The introduction of agriculture is known to have profoundly affected the ecological complexion of landscapes. In this study, a rapid transition from C3 to C4 vegetation is inferred from a shift to higher stable carbon (13C/12C) isotop ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences · 2016
We present a new statistical approach to analysing an extremely common archaeological data typeâpotsherdsâthat infers the structure of cultural relationships across a set of excavation units (EUs). This method, applied to data from a set of complex, cu ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS ONE · 2014
The locations of diy-geδ-bay (DGB) sites in the Mandara Mountains, northern Cameroon are hypothesized to occur as a function of their ability to see and be seen from points on the surrounding landscape. A series of geostatistical, two- ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of African Archaeology · October 25, 2013
In 2008, a number of iron artefacts were recovered from an interior courtyard on the DGB-1 site during fieldwork in 2008. DGB-1 is a large multi-function site located in the northeastern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon, and dating to the mid-second m ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Social Archaeology · October 1, 2010
James Ferguson's 2005 article ‚Seeing Like an Oil Company‚ powerfully described the development of resource-extraction enclaves in African states, and the complex landscape of globally integrated and excluded territories that such enclaves produce. In this ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Social Archaeology · June 2002
The northeastern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon and Nigeria are occupied at high population densities, with households spread across an abrupt mountain landscape. Ritual and political power in this area inheres to a great extent to the physical bei ...
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