Publication: Communities, urbanism and state building in the Lake Chad region
Essay on social development in the Lake Chad region in pre-modern times.
Publications
Publications
Publication: Iron Age plant subsistence in the Inner Congo Basin (DR Congo)
Archaeobotanical study of useful plant cultivation in the Inner Congo Basin during the Iron Age.
Archäologie Weltweit Sonderausgabe 2021
The 2021 special issue presents Groundcheck – unlocking climate archives, understanding climate change, developing strategies for the future.
Publication: Vegetation Dynamics in Tibesti Mountains Area
Publication on vegetation dynamics in the Tibesti Mountains highland regions of Chad
Publication: Jahrtausendealt – Netzwerke südlich der Sahara
In the journal „Archäologie in Deutschland“ the coordinators describe the general content of their research project.
Publication: Wasser für Gala Abu Ahmed
The paper deals with the study of a prehistoric drainage system based on remote sensing data.
New E-Paper on the SPP „Entangled Africa“ released
Logo: Copyright: DAI Paper – Project 12 – Coordination J. Sigl/J. Linstädter, South of the Sahara, Africa. »Entangled Africa« – new interdisciplinary research from Africa’s east to west coast. December […]
New publication by ‚Entangled Africa‘ project ‚Routes of interaction‘
The cost of human movement, whether expressed in time, effort, or distance, is a function of natural and human related variables. At the same time, human movement itself, whether on land, air or sea, causes environmental cost. We are looking into the long-term environmental relationship of this interplay. […]
Publication: Fired brick élite locations in Kanem, Chad
One of the most intriguing problems concerning the Kanem-Borno sultanate of the central Sahel between the eighth and nineteenth centuries AD concerns its early intra-African connections. Apart from historically documented linkages with North and parts of West Africa, were there trade and other contacts with eastern regions such as Darfur, the Middle Nile Valley and areas beyond prior to the fifteenth century? […]
Publication: Archaeological research in Tié, Chad
Presently, the most conspicuous material vestiges known are the ruins of fired-brick elite locations, some of which are demonstrably associated with the Kanem-Borno Sultanate and dated to the period 11th-14th centuries AD. Amongst those, the place named Tié stands out due to a number of particular attributes. […]
Publication: Studying Northern Kordofan by remote sensing
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the planned work of the InterLINK project in North Kordofan had to be spontaneously cancelled in spring 2020. Instead, research focused on remote sensing of the area. […]
Publication: Late Holocene vegetation changes in the Chad Basin, Nigeria
The development of cultivated landscapes under the influence of food production has decisively shaped the composition and appearance of West African savannas as present today. With trees and shrubs forming an important constituent of such landscapes, and its composition characterizing different types of land-use, anthracology is a tool particularly well suited to trace developments and changes through human exploitation of the landscape. […]
Contribution on Central Sudan by C. Magnavita in the Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology
In view of the paucity of research, the Islamic archaeology of the Central Sudan and Sahel remains one of the less well known of the African continent. While this also applies to the material legacy of the past six centuries, it is particularly sites and remains from the early period of Islamic influence in the region that are virtually unexplored. […]
Report on the archaeological and geological science research in Ethiopia by the project ‚Routes of Interaction‘, 2018-2019
The project »Routes of Interaction« is a collaboration between the Sanaa Branch of the Orient-Department, the Department of Earth Sciences – Physical Geography of the Freie Universität Berlin and the Egyptian Museum – Georg Steindorff, Leipzig University. Embedded into the SPP Programme of the DFG »Entangled Africa«, field work has been carried out since 2018. […]
Report of the ‚Connecting Foodways‘ project on 2019s work in Sudan
Focusing on past culinary practices, the “Connecting Foodways” project explores cross-cultural connections and technological transmission between the Middle Nile Valley and central and eastern Africa during the early Iron Age (ca. 1000 BC – 1000 AD). It is one of twelve projects of the DFG Priority Program “Entangled Africa” (SPP 2143), which explores inner-African relations and thereby develops new perspectives for joint archaeological research in Africa. […]
