Dr. Alexa Höhn
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Professional and academic career
Research interests
African archaeobotany and vegetation history:
- Holocene vegetation history
- Human and climatic influence on woody vegetation
- Utilization of woody resources in the past
- Development of an identification manual for charcoals from Central Africa
Methods:
- Archaeological charcoal
Regional specialization on West- and Central Africa. Field work in Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon, Nigeria.
Research projects (participation)
- Cultivated Landscapes - Land-use and cultural landscape development in North-hemispheric African savannas (since 2019)
- Development of complex societies in sub-Saharan Africa: The Nigerian Nok Culture (2012-2019)
- Human impact in coastal West Central Africa from the Iron Age to colonial times – reflected in the charcoal of Dibamba 1 (2010/2011)
- Ecological and cultural change in West and Central Africa (2005-2009)
- Cultural development and language history in the West African savanna (1997-2002)
Professional and academic career
since 2019
Research fellow with own project: Cultivated Landscapes
2012-2019
Research fellow at long-term project: Development of complex societies in sub-Saharan Africa: The Nigerian Nok Culture
since 2010
Research fellow at DFG project: Human impact in coastal West Central Africa from the Iron Age to colonial times
2005-2009
Research fellow at FOR 510: Ecological and cultural change in West and Central Africa
2005
PhD (Dr), Goethe University Frankfurt. Subject: Iron Age development of a cultural landscape in the Sahel of Burkina Faso. Analyses of archaeological charcoal.
2003
Research assistant at BIOTA-project
1997-2002
Research assistant at special research project 268: Cultural development and language history in the West African savanna
1991-1997
Study of Botany, zoology and physical geography at Goethe University Frankfurt.
1988-1991
Apprenticeship as book seller
1968
Born on September 22nd in Hamburg
Selected publications
Höhn, A., K. Hahn, M- Schmidt (2019): The search for Isoberlinia. Investigations into present and past woody vegetation in the key research area of the Nok Culture Project in Central Nigeria. In: Eichhorn, B. A. Höhn (eds): Trees, Grasses and Crops. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn: 211-232.
Kay, A.U., D. Q Fuller, K. Neumann et al. (2019): Diversification, intensification, and specialization: Changing land-use in Western Africa from 1800 BC to AD 1500. Journal of World Prehistory 32 (2): 179-228.
Höhn, A., G. Franke, A. Schmidt (2018): Pits at Pangwari. Charcoal taphonomy at a multi-phased Nok site, Central Nigeria. In: Mercuri, A.M., D'Andrea, A.C., Fornaciari, R., Höhn, A. (eds.): Plants and People in the African Past - Progress in African Archaeobotany. Cham (Springer Nature): 271-299. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-89839-1_14
Höhn, A. & K. Neumann (2018): Charcoal identification in a species-rich environment - the example of Dibamba, Cameroon. IAWA Journal. 39(1): 87-113. DOI: 10.1163/22941932-20170195
