Roderick McIntosh, PhD
Clayton Stephenson / Yale Class of 1954 Professor Emeritus of AnthropologyCards
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Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Director of Undergraduate Studies for Archaeological Studies; Curator at Peabody Museum
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Clayton Stephenson / Yale Class of 1954 Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Director of Undergraduate Studies for Archaeological Studies; Curator at Peabody MuseumBiography
Professor McIntosh excavates (continuing almost 30 years) at Jenne-jeno, Mali (considered the oldest city in sub-Saharan Africa). He also dug in Ghana and directed archaeological projects in Senegal and at several other locales within the Middle Niger of Mali. He has also held a Visiting Professorship at the University of Pretoria (South Africa) from 2002-2005. In 1990 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford); in 1991 he was Senior Fulbright Fellow at the University of Dakar, Senegal, and in 2000 at the University of Mali. His principal interests are in the later prehistory of Africa, the origin of complex societies worldwide (esp. urbanism), palaeoclimate and human response, the intellectual history of archaeology, and the suppression of the illicit international traffic in art and antiquities.
Education & Training
- PhD
- University of Cambridge (1979)
Research
Publications
- "Barons, Anglo-Saxons, and Nos Ancetres - or, Eating the Young in Francophone West Africa," in ed. Peter Schmidt, Postcolonial Archaeologies in Africa, SAR Press, 2009Peer-Reviewed Original Research
- Ancient Middle Niger: Urbanism and the Self-Organizing Past. Cambridge University Press, 2005Peer-Reviewed Original Research
- "Reactions to Desertification (5,000-1,000 BCE)," in eds. Joseph C. Miller and Kenneth Wachsberger, New Encyclopedia of Africa, Charles Scribners, 2009.Peer-Reviewed Original Research