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.
Research projects (participation)
- Development of complex societies in sub-Saharan Africa: The Nigerian Nok Culture (since 2012)
- 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 2012
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. 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
Höhn, A. & K. Neumann: The palaeovegetation of Janruwa (Nigeria) and its implications for the decline of the Nok Culture. Journal of African Archaeology. DOI 10.3213/2191-5784-10296 , 18 Nov 2016.
Höhn, A. & K. Neumann (2012): 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