Late Holocene vegetation history and the development of agriculture in West and Central Africa

• Antragstellerin: Professorin Dr. Katharina Neumann
• Fachliche Zuordnung: Paläontologie
• Förderung: Förderung von 2003 bis 2012
• Projektkennung: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 5470296

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Projektbezogene Publikationen (Auswahl)

• (2006): Phytoliths in a silo: micro-botanical evidence from Zilum (Lake Chad Basin), NE Nigeria (c. 500 BC). Journal of Biological Sciences 6 (5): 824-832
  Fahmy, A.G. & C. Magnavita
  
• (2006): Pits, graves and grains. Archaeological and archaeobotanical research in southern Cameroun. Journal of African Archaeology 4 (2): 273-298
  Eggert, M.K.H., A. Höhn, S. Kahlheber, C. Meister, K. Neumann & A. Schweizer
  
• (2007): Settling the rain forest – the environment of farming communities in Southern Cameroon during the first millennium BC. In: Runge, J. (ed.), Dynamics of Forest Ecosystems in Central Africa during the Holocene: Past - Present - Future. Palaeoecology of Africa 28, Taylor & Francis, London: 29-41
  Höhn, A., S. Kahlheber, K. Neumann & A. Schweizer
  
• (2009): Early bananas in Africa: The state of the art. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 7: 353-362
  Neumann, K. & E. Hildebrand
  
• (2009): Early plant cultivation in the Central African rain forest: first millennium BC pearl millet from South Cameroon. Journal of African Archaeology 7 (2): 253-272
  Kahlheber, S., K. Bostoen & K. Neumann
  
• (2009): Garu Kime: a late Borno fired-brick site at Monguno, NE Nigeria. African Archaeological Review 26: 219-246
  Magnavita, C., O. Adebayo, A. Höhn, D. Ishaya, S. Kahlheber, V. Linseele & S. Ogunseyin
  
• (2009): Seasonality change and the third millennium BP rainforest crisis in Central Africa: a high resolution pollen profile from Nyabessan, southern Cameroon. Quaternary Research 71: 307-318
  Ngomanda, A., K. Neumann, A. Schweizer & J. Maley
  
• Grasses and grinding stones: Inflorescence phytoliths from modern West African Poaceae and archaeological stone artefacts. Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop of African Archaeobotany. Frankfurt, M. : Africa-Magna-Verl.. 2011. ISBN 978-3-937248-32-5
  Radomski, K. & K. Neumann
  
• First farmers in the Central African rainforest: A view from southern Cameroon. Quaternary International
  Neumann, K, A. Höhn, S. Kahlheber, A. Ngomanda & B. Tchiengué