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Ethnoarchaeology of Shuwa-Arab Settlements. By Augustin F. C. Holl. Lexington Books, Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford, 2003, 418 pages. ISBN 0-7391-0407-1. Price: US$ 85.00.

Ethnoarchaeology of Shuwa-Arab Settlements. By Augustin F. C. Holl. Lexington Books, Lanham,... BOOK REVIEW The Shuwa Arabs in the basin of Lake Chad are the westernmost representatives of a vast migration of Arabic-speaking pastoralists who started expanding from the Nubian Nile valley to the Sahelian zones of the eastern Sudan belt from the 14th century onwards. Whereas a certain amount of information has been provided by ethnographic studies in the French-speaking countries of Chad and Cameroon and more recently also in Nigeria, archaeological research about this group has so far remained an almost complete terra incognita. Augustin Holls monograph on the ethnoarchaeology of Shuwa Arab settlements in the Holouf region of northern Cameroon is therefore a highly welcome contribution to fill at least a part of this gap. The fieldwork was carried out in the context of a larger research programme between 1982 and 1991. With regard to the historical reconstruction of Shuwa Arab migration and the cultural changes they had to undergo when moving from a semi-arid habitat to seasonally inundated regions in the Chad basin, my own views differ to some extent from the analysis which Holl accomplished on the basis of the existing literature. However, I completely agree with his general chronological frame that the bulk of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of African Archaeology Brill

Ethnoarchaeology of Shuwa-Arab Settlements. By Augustin F. C. Holl. Lexington Books, Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford, 2003, 418 pages. ISBN 0-7391-0407-1. Price: US$ 85.00.

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Journal of African Archaeology , Volume 2 (1): 113 – Oct 25, 2004
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BOOK REVIEW The Shuwa Arabs in the basin of Lake Chad are the westernmost representatives of a vast migration of Arabic-speaking pastoralists who started expanding from the Nubian Nile valley to the Sahelian zones of the eastern Sudan belt from the 14th century onwards. Whereas a certain amount of information has been provided by ethnographic studies in the French-speaking countries of Chad and Cameroon and more recently also in Nigeria, archaeological research about this group has so far remained an almost complete terra incognita. Augustin Holls monograph on the ethnoarchaeology of Shuwa Arab settlements in the Holouf region of northern Cameroon is therefore a highly welcome contribution to fill at least a part of this gap. The fieldwork was carried out in the context of a larger research programme between 1982 and 1991. With regard to the historical reconstruction of Shuwa Arab migration and the cultural changes they had to undergo when moving from a semi-arid habitat to seasonally inundated regions in the Chad basin, my own views differ to some extent from the analysis which Holl accomplished on the basis of the existing literature. However, I completely agree with his general chronological frame that the bulk of

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