Report on SPP Entangled Africa Annual Meeting in Münster
Report on the final annual meeting of the Entangled Africa programme which took place at the University of Münster from 10th to 12th February 2025.
Category: P01 Prehistoric Axes EN
“Planet Africa” in the James Simon Gallery: Exhibition Opening and Press Reviews
Good things come to those who wait. The opening of the “Planet Africa” exhibition in the James-Simon-Galerie was a complete success for the international researchers and guests
SPP Annual Meeting 2024 in Cologne
Report on the Annual Meeting 2024 of the SPP which took place at the University of Cologne in mid January.
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.
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.
Entangled Research – Entangled Africa: Report on the annual meeting 2021
At the SPP annual meeting held on Jan. 10, 2022, participants were able to enjoy the research results to date, along with exciting new findings.
Report on SAfA Session “Entangled Africa”
On August 24, 2021, the time had finally come: During the 25th conference of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, the virtual session "Entangled Africa: Interactions, relations and networks within Africa" organized by Alexa Höhn and Friederike Jesse took place. There was a lively discussion and exchange about prehistoric depictions of herdsmen up to the copper trade of the 19th century.
‘Entangled Africa’ Research Symposium at virtual SAfA 2021
On Aug. 24, 2021, the 'Entangled Africa' research symposium "Interactions, relations and networks within Africa" will be held as part of SAfA 2021. From prehistoric pastoral representations in the Sahara to the 19th century copper trade, a wide range of topics will be discussed.
Research Stay at the Musée de l’Homme
Visiting museum collections to gather comparative material is an important part of my project. Corona has caused quite a stir here. So it was a welcome circumstance that a visit to the Musée de l’Homme in Paris in July, which had already been planned at the beginning of the year, could actually take place. [...]
Wavy Line and Herringbone
Ceramic processing must be flexible, able to adapt to the conditions of excavation and object. At the same time, the records of those working on this find genre from different regions should be comparable. Done to speed up and standardize the ceramic recording on site, the elaboration of the catalogue was successfully completed. [...]