Research in the peatland of the Congo Basin
The Congo Basin hosts the largest tropical peat bog complex in the world. Within the framework of the SPP, a sediment sequence of about 2 m depth was sampled and investigated.
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„A hot week in Rome“ – Project DeGree reports from the 21st INQUA
The SPP project DeGree participated in July 2023 with two lecture in the 21st INQUA in Rome.
(In)Visible Ptolemaic Queens at the Recurring Egyptology Conference 2023
The Working Group (In)visible Women presented their results at the SÄK in Cologne.
Conference review: Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA), Houston, Texas – June 1st-6th 2023
Detailed report about the SPP’s contriubutions at the 2023 SAfA in Houston.
P07 „Routes of Interaction“ – Exploratory trip to Djibouti
In March 2023, members of the 07 „Routes of Interaction“ project were on site in Djibouti for the first time to undertake archaeological explorations.
Report for CAA 2023
The FAIR.rdm project group presented the current situation of research data management at the CAA in Amsterdam.
Of donkeys and sheep
Report about an archaeozoological workshop held in Khartoum in February 2023.
Anthracology WorldWide – „Cultivated Landscapes“ as part of a new international network
Report from Alexa Höhn of P05 „Cultivated Landscapes“ regarding the international Anthracology Meeting in Nice in Mid of Decembre 2022
SPP Annual Meeting at the Goethe-University Frankfurt from 16th to 17th January
Describing the conference experience in Frankfurt. In and beyond the conference room.
African Interconnections around Kordofan and Western Sudan
At the 15th Conference for Nubian Studies, members of some SPP projects presented their current research on Kordofan and Kanem-Bornu.
From Egypt to Bonn Vol. II: Analysis of Egyptian phytoliths at the KAAK
The SPP invited the Egyptian researcher E.A.E. Attia in October to analyse and compare phytoliths from Elephantine (Egypt) and Mezber (Ethiopia).
Exhibition Announcement: Lake Chad as a Crossroads at the Musée National du Tchad
The project „The Lake Chad Region as a Crossroads“ presents new research on the history of the Kanem-Borno Empire starting in December 2024 at the Musée National du Chad.
Workshop: (In)Visible Women – How They Shaped our Past
Report on the first workshop of the newest SPP-Working Group „(In)Visible Women“.
Identifying Archaeological Plant Remains under the Microscope: the Archaeobotanical Reference Collection in Frankfurt
The archaeobotanical reference collection in Frankfurt is of central importance worldwide for archaeological research on cultivated plants
From Egypt to Bonn: Our experiences as guest researchers at the KAAK
German tale of the two guest scientists from Egypt, Mariam Adel and Fernadne Lozada.
