Complete publication list of Katharina Neumann
In press
Höhn, A. & Neumann, K.: Palaeovegetation of Janruwa (Nigeria) and its implications for the decline of the Nok Culture. Journal of African Archaeology.
2016
Collura, L.V. & Neumann, K.: Wood and bark phytoliths of West African woody plants. Quaternary International. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.12.070
Neumann, K., Fahmy, A., Müller-Scheeßel, N. & Schmidt, M.: Taxonomic, ecological and palaeoecological significance of leaf phytoliths in West African grasses. Quaternary International. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.039
2015
Neumann, K.: In memoriam Ahmad Gamal el-Din Fahmy, March 5th 1962 to December 18th 2013. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 24: 3-4.
2014
Eichhorn, B. & Neumann, K.: Holocene vegetation change and land use at Ounjougou, Mali. - In: Stevens, C.J., Nixon, S., Murray, M.A. & Fuller, D. (eds.): Archaeology of African Plant Use. Walnut Creek (Left Coast Press): 83-96.
Höhn, A. & Neumann, K.: Millet and more: Farming and food in the time of the Nok Culture. - In: In: Breunig, P. (ed.): Nok - African Sculpture in Archaeological Context. Frankfurt am Main (Africa Magna Verlag): 178-185.
Kahlheber, S., A. Höhn & Neumann, K.: Plant use in southern Cameroon between 400 BC and 400 AD. - In: Stevens, C.J., Nixon, S., Murray, M.A. & Fuller, D. (eds.): Archaeology of African Plant Use. Walnut Creek (Left Coast Press): 113-128.
Neumann, K. & Höhn, A.: The Nok region – a savanna landscape and its history. - In: Breunig, P. (ed.): Nok - African Sculpture in Archaeological Context. Frankfurt am Main (Africa Magna Verlag): 40-49.
Ozainne, S., Lespez, L., Garnier, A., Ballouche, A., Neumann, K., Pays, O. & Huysecom, E.: A question of timing: spatio-temporal structure and mechanisms of early agriculture expansion in West Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 50: 359-368.
2013
Garnier, A., Neumann, K., Eichhorn, B. & Lespez, L. Phytolith taphonomy in the middle- to late-Holocene fluvial sediments of Ounjougou (Mali, West Africa). The Holocene 23(3), 416-431.
2012
Barton, H., Denham, T., Neumann, K., Arroyo-Kalin, M.: Long-term perspectives on human occupation of tropical rainforests: An introductory overview. Quaternary International 249: 1-3. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2011.07.044
Höhn, A. & Neumann, K.: Shifting cultivation and cultural landscape development during the Iron Age (0-1500 AD) in the Sahel of Burkina Faso, West Africa – Insights from archaeological charcoal. Quaternary International 249: 72-83. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.012
Neumann, K., Bostoen, K., Höhn, A., Kahlheber, S., Ngomanda, A. & Tchiengué, B.: First farmers in the Central African rainforest: A view from southern Cameroon. Quaternary International 249: 53-62. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2011.03.024
Neumann, K., Eggert, M.K.H., Oslisly, R., Clist, B., Denham, T., de Maret, P., Ozainne, S., Hildebrand, E., Bostoen, K., Salzmann, U., Schwartz, D., Eichhorn, B., Tchiengué, B. & Höhn, A.: Comment on “Intensifying Weathering and Land Use in Iron Age Central Africa”. Science 337: 1040. doi: 0.1126/science.1221747
2011
Lespez, L., Le Drezen, Y., Garnier, A., Rasse, M., Eichhorn, B., Ozainne, B., Ballouche, A., Neumann, K. & Huysecom, E.: High-resolution fluvial records of Holocene environmental changes in the Sahel: the Yamé River at Ounjougou (Mali, West Africa). Quaternary Science Reviews 30 (5-6): 737-756. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.12.021
Radomski, K.U. & Neumann, K.: Grasses and grinding stones: Inflorescence phytoliths from modern West African Poaceae and archaeological stone artefacts. – In: Fahmy, A.G., Kahlheber, S. & Andrea, A.C. (eds): Windows on the African Past. Current Approaches to African Archaeobotany. Frankfurt am Main (Africa Magna Verlag): 153-166.
Sangen, M., Neumann, K. & Eisenberg, J.: Climate-induced dynamics in tropical Africa around the last glacial maximum? Quaternary Research 76: 417-429. doi: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.08.002
2010
Eichhorn, B., Neumann, K., Garnier, A.: Seed phytoliths in West African Commelinaceae and their potential for palaeoecological studies. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 298: 300-310. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.10.004
2009
Huysecom, E., Rasse, M., Lespez, L., Neumann, K., Fahmy, A., Ballouche, A., Ozainne, S., Maggetti, M., Tribolo, Ch., Soriano, S.: The emergence of pottery in Africa during the 10th millennium cal BC: new evidence from Ounjougou (Mali). Antiquity 83 (322): 905-917.
Kahlheber, S., Bostoen, K. & Neumann, K.: 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.
Neumann, K., Fahmy, A., Lespez, L., Ballouche, A., Huysecom, E.: The Early Holocene palaeoenvironment of Ounjougou (Mali): Phytoliths in a multiproxy context. Palaeogeograpphy, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 276:187-206. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.03.001
Neumann, K. & Hildebrand, E.: Early bananas in Africa: The state of the art. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 7:353-362. PDF
Ngomanda, A., Neumann, K., Schweizer, A. & Maley, J.: 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. doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2008.12.002
Ozainne, S., Lespez, L., Le Drezen, Y., Eichhorn, B., Neumann, K. & Huysecom, E.: Developing a chronology integrating archaeological and environmental data from different contexts: the Late Holocene sequence of Ounjougou (Mali). Radiocarbon 51(2): 457–470.
2007
Kahlheber, S. & K. Neumann: The development of plant cultivation in semi-arid west Africa. In: Denham, T. P., J. Iriarte & L. Vrydaghs (eds.): Rethinking Agriculture: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives. One World Archaeology 51. Walnut Creek (Left Coast Press): 320-346. PDF
Höhn, A., S. Kahlheber, K. Neumann & A. Schweizer: Settling the rain forest – the environment of farming communities in Southern Cameroon during the first millennium BC. In: Runge, J. (ed.): Palaeoecology of Africa 28. London (Taylor & Francis): 29-41.
2006
Breunig, P., B. Eichhorn, S. Kahlheber, V. Linseele, C. Magnavita, K. Neumann, M. Posselt & N. Rupp: G(l)anz ohne Eisen: Große Siedlungen aus der Mitte des ersten Jahrtausends BC im Tschadbecken von Nordost-Nigeria. In: Wotzka, H.-P. (Hrsg.), Grundlegungen. Beiträge zur afrikanischen Archäologie für Manfred K.H. Eggert. Tübingen (Francke): 255-270.
Neumann, K.: Ölpalme, Perlhirse und Banane. Wie kam die Landwirtschaft in den Regenwald Zentralafrikas? Forschung Frankfurt 2-3/2006: 38-41.
Eggert, M.K.H., A. Höhn, S. Kahlheber, C. Meister, K. Neumann & A. Schweizer: Pits, graves and grains. Archaeological and archaeobotanical research in southern Cameroun. Journal of African Archaeology 4(2): 273-298.
Rasse, M., A. Ballouche, E. Huysecom, C. Tribolo, S. Ozainne, Y. Le Drezen, S. Stokes & K. Neumann: Évolution géomorphologique, enregistrements sédimentaires et dynamiques paléoenvironnementales Holocènes à Ounjougou (Plateau Dogon, Mali, Afrique de l’Ouest). Quaternaire 17 (1): 61-74.
2005
Neumann, K.: The romance of farming - plant cultivation and domestication in Africa. In: A.B. Stahl (ed.): African Archaeology. A Critical Introduction: 249-275. Malden (Blackwell). PDF
2004
Albert, K.-D., D. Löhr & K. Neumann (eds.): Mensch und Natur in Westafrika. Abschlussbuch des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268. Weinheim (Wiley-VCH).
Breunig, P. & K. Neumann: Zwischen Wüste und Regenwald. Besiedlungsgeschichte der westafrikanischen Savannen im Holozän. In: Albert, K.-D., Löhr, D. & K. Neumann (eds.): Mensch und Natur in Westafrika. Abschlussbuch des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268: 93-138. Weinheim (Wiley-VCH).
Neumann, K., K. Hahn-Hadjali & U. Salzmann: Die Savannen der Sudanzone in Westafrika - natürlich oder menschengemacht? In: Albert, K.-D., D. Löhr & K. Neumann (eds.): Mensch und Natur in Westafrika. Abschlussbuch des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268: 39-68. Weinheim (Wiley - VCH).
2003
Neumann, K.: New Guinea: A Cradle of Agriculture. Science 301: 180-181.
Neumann, K.: The late emergence of agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: Archaeological evidence and ecological considerations. In: Neumann, K., A. Butler & S. Kahlheber (eds.): Food, Fuel and Fields. Progress in African Archaeobotany: 71-92. Africa Praehistorica 15. Köln (Heinrich-Barth-Institut).
Neumann, K., A. Butler & S. Kahlheber (eds.): Food, Fuel and Fields. Progress in African Archaeobotany. Africa Praehistorica 15. Köln (Heinrich-Barth-Institut).
2002
Breunig, P. & K. Neumann: From hunters and gatherers to food producers: new archaeological and archaeobotanical evidence from the West African Sahel. In: F. Hassan (ed.): Ecological Change and Food Security in Africa's Later Prehistory: 123-155. New York (Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers).
Breunig, P. & K. Neumann: Continuity or discontinuity? The 1st millennium BC-crisis in West African prehistory. - In: Lenssen-Erz, T. et al. (ed.): Tides of the Desert. Contributions to the Archaeology and Environmental History of Africa in Honour of Rudolph Kuper: 491-505. Africa Praehistorica 14, Köln (Heinrich-Barth-Institut).
Neumann, K.: Die westafrikanische Savanne - eine Kulturlandschaft. In: Reikat, A. (ed.): Leben in Westafrika: 70-83. Frankfurt a. Main (Plexus-Verlag, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, SFB 268 "Kulturentwicklung und Sprachgeschichte im Naturraum Westafrikanische Savanne).
2001
Ballouche, A., A. Akoègninou, K. Neumann, U. Salzmann & M.A. Sowunmi: Le projet "Dahomey Gap": une contribution à l'histoire de la végétation au Sud-Bénin et Sud-Ouest du Nigéria. Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268, 14: 237-251. Frankfurt am Main.
Frank, Th., P. Breunig, P. Müller-Haude, W. Van Neer, K. Neumann, R. Vogelsang & H.-P. Wotzka: The Chaîne de Gobnangou in SE Burkina Faso: archaeological, archaeobotanical, archaeozoological and geomorphological studies. Ber. Allg. Vergl. Arch. 127-190.
Kahlheber, S. & K. Neumann (eds.): Man and Environment in the West African Sahel - an Interdisciplinary Approach. Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268, 17, Frankfurt am Main.
Neumann, K.: Masakwa farming in the Chad Basin of northeast Nigeria - Introduction. In: Kahlheber, S. & K. Neumann (eds.): Man and Environment in the West African Sahel - an Interdisciplinary Approach: 9-13. Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268, 17, Frankfurt am Main.
Neumann, K., W. Schoch, F.H. Schweingruber & P. Détienne: Hölzer der Sahara und des Sahel - ein anatomischer Atlas. Paul Haupt, Bern & Stuttgart.
2000
Klee, M., B. Zach & K. Neumann: Four thousand years of plant exploitation in the Chad Basin of northeast Nigeria: The archaeobotany of Kursakata. Veget. Hist. Archaeobot. 9: 223-237.
1999
Breunig, P. & K. Neumann: Archäologische und archäobotanische Forschung in Westafrika. Arch. Nachrichtenbl. 4: 336-357.
Neumann, K.: Charcoal from West African savanna sites - questions of identification and interpretation. In: Van der Veen M (ed.) The exploitation of plant resources in ancient Africa. Plenum Publishers, New York: 205-219.
Neumann, K.: Early plant food production in the West African Sahel - new evidence from the Frankfurt project. In: Van der Veen M (ed.) The exploitation of plant resources in ancient Africa. Plenum Publishers, New York: 73-80.
Neumann, K. & P. Müller-Haude: Forêts sèches au sud-ouest du Burkina Faso: végétations - sols - action de l'homme. Phytocoenologia 29(1): 53-85.
1998
Neumann, K., S. Kahlheber & D. Uebel: Remains of woody plants from Saouga, a medieval West African village. Veget. Hist. Archaeobot. 7(2): 57-77.
1997
Neumann, K.: Report on the second workshop on the archaeobotany of North Africa. Nyame Akuma 48: 79.
1996
Breunig, P., Neumann, K. & W. Van Neer: New research on the Holocene settlement and environment of the Chad Basin in Nigeria. Afr. Arch. Rev. 13(2): 111-145.
Neumann, K., A. Ballouche & M. Klee: The emergence of plant food production in the West African Sahel: new evidence from northeast Nigeria and northern Burkina Faso. In: Pwiti, G. & R. Soper (eds.): Aspects of African Archaeology. Papers from the 10th Congress of the PanAfrican Association for Prehistory and Related Studies: 441-448; Harare (University of Harare Publications).
Zach, B., H. Kirscht, D. Löhr, K. Neumann & E. Platte: Masakwa dry season cropping in the Chad Basin. Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268 8: 349-356, Frankfurt am Main.
1995
Ballouche, A. & K. Neumann: A new contribution to the Holocene vegetation history of the West African Sahel: pollen from Oursi, Burkina Faso and charcoal from three sites in northeast Nigeria. Veget. Hist. Archaeobot. 1995(4): 31-39.
Neumann, K. & A. Ballouche: Anthropogenic change in the vegetation history af the Sahel: only a question of viewpoint? In: 2nd Symposium on African Palynology, Tervuren (Belgium): 27-33; Occasional Publication CIFEG 31, Orléans.
1994
Neumann, K.: Wirtschaftsweisen im Neolithikum der Ostsahara und ihr Einfluß auf die Vegetation. In: Bollig, M. & F. Klees (ed.): Überlebensstrategien in Afrika: 47-65; Köln (Heinrich-Barth-Institut).
1993
Ballouche, A., K. Küppers, K. Neumann & H.P. Wotzka: Aspects de l'occupation humaine et de l'histoire de la végétation au cours de l'Holocène dans la région de la Chaine de Gobnangou, S.E. Burkina Faso. Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268, 1: 13-31; Frankfurt am Main.
Breunig, P., A. Ballouche, K. Neumann, F.W. Rösing, H. Thiemeyer, P. Wendt & W. van Neer: Gajiganna. New data on early settlement and environment in the Chad basin. Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268, 2: 51-74; Frankfurt am Main.
Neumann, K.: Holocene vegetation of the Eastern Sahara: charcoal from prehistoric sites. In: Krzyzaniak, L., M. Kobusiewicz & J. Alexander (eds.): Environmental change and human culture in the Nile basin and Northern Africa until the second millenium B.C.: 153-169. Studies in African Archaeology 4, Poznan (Poznan Archaeological Museum).
1992
Neumann, K.: The contribution of anthracology to the study of the late Quaternary vegetation history of the Mediterranean region and Africa. Bull. Soc. bot. Fr.139, Actual. bot. (2/3/4): 421-440
Neumann, K.: Une flore soudanienne au Sahara central vers 7000 B.P.: les charbons de bois de Fachi/Niger. Bull. Soc. bot. Fr. 139, Actual. bot. 2/3/4: 565-570.
Neumann, K. & A. Ballouche: Die Chaine de Gobnangou in SE Burkina Faso - ein Beitrag zur Vegetationsgeschichte der Sudanzone W-Afrikas. Geobot. Kolloq. 8: 53-68.
Vermeersch, P.M., E. Paulissen, D. Huyge, K. Neumann, W. Van Neer & P. Van Peer: Predynastic hearths in Upper Egypt. In: Friedman, R. & B. Adams (eds.): The followers of Horus. Studies dedicated to Michael Allen Hoffman: 163-172; Egyptian Studies Association Publication 2. Oxbow Monograph 20.
1991
Neumann, K.: In search for the green Sahara: Palynology and botanical macroremains. Palaeoecol. Africa 22: 203-212.
1989
Neumann, K.: Holocene vegetation of the Eastern Sahara: charcoal from prehistoric sites. Afr. Arch. Rev. 7: 97-116. PDF
Neumann, K.: Vegetationsgeschichte der Ostsahara im Holozän. Holzkohlen aus prähistorischen Fundstellen. In: Kuper, R. (ed.): Forschungen zur Umweltgeschichte der Ostsahara: 13-181; Köln (Heinrich-Barth-Institut).
1988
Neumann, K.: Die Bedeutung von Holzkohleuntersuchungen für die Vegetationsgeschichte der Sahara: Das Beispiel Fachi/Niger. Würzburger Geogr. Arb. 69: 71-85.
1987
Neumann, K.: Middle Holocene vegetation of the Gilf Kebir/SW-Egypt - a reconstruction. Palaeoecol. Africa 18: 179-188.
Neumann, K.: The Jebel Tagern: A contribution to the flora of the Southern Libyan Desert. J. Arid Environments 12: 27-39.
Neumann, K. & E. Schulz: Végétation holocène dans le Sahara Central. Géodynamique 2(2): 150-153; Bondy (O.R.S.T.O.M.).
Neumann, K. & E. Schulz: Middle Holocene savanna vegetation in the Central Sahara - preliminary report. Palaeoecol. Africa 18: 163-166.
1986
Neumann, K.: Untersuchung der Holzkohlen. In: E. Cziesla: Bericht über die Grabungen 1980 und 1983 in der Weidentalhöhle bei Wilgartswiesen, Pfälzer Wald. Mitt. Hist. Vereins Pfalz 84: 48-51.
