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Augustin F.C. Holl
Augustin F.C. Holl is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for
Afroamerican and African studies, and Curator of West African Archaeology in the
Museum of Anthropology. His research revolves around issues of social evolution, the
advent of Food-producing economies, the emergence, and growth of complex social
systems in West Africa and the Levant. He has conducted fieldwork in the Saharan desert
in Mauritania, the Negev desert in Israel, the Chadian plain in Northern Cameroon, and is
currently director the Mohoun Bend Archaeological Project (MOBAP) in northwestern
Burkina Faso. Other facets of Holl's research touch on Mortuary archaeology through the
New York African Burial Ground research project, and the anthropological archaeology
of Central Sahara Rock Art. He is editor in chief of the West African Journal of
Archaeology.
Selected Publications
2000 Ancient African Metallurgy: The Socio-cultural Context. Walnut Creek;
Alta Mira Press (with M.S. Bisson, S.T. Childs and P. de Barros)
2000 The Diwan Revisited: Literacy, State Formation, and the Rise of Kanuri
Domination (1200-1600 A.D.)<. London/New York; Kegan Paul international.
1998 (Guest-editor), The dawn of African pastoralisms. Special issue –
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology vol 17(2).
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