They are entrusted with routine work or are working on their academic degrees; you can find them in laboratories, on excavations and in the library: the young scientists of the SPP “Entangled Africa” are an essential part of the projects. The program offers them the opportunity to gain insight into methods of the diverse...
Category: P12 Coordination
Entangled Africa and climate change in the past
Global climate change has been a central topic of worldwide politics and public opinion in recent years. The “Fridays for Future” movement brings the younger generation onto the streets to underline the issue. The current pandemic is hopefully used as an opportunity to overcome the economic crisis that has arisen by providing targeted support...
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. ...
SPP ‘Entangled Africa’ and iDAI.world – A digital connection of time and space
The project on research data management (RDM) and the coordination of the priority program “Entangled Africa” (SPP2143) pursue a virtual exchange with specialists from the Department of Scientific Information Technology (Scientific IT) of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), to create new tools for the scientific discourse of all of the program’s projects on...
Pottery – The Devil is in the Detail
Object of the discourse was the range of various forms of decoration and techniques that have been listed in the individual ceramic assortments of the projects. The projects of the scientists are located in Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia and in the area of the Middle Niger in West Africa. ...
Entangled Africa – networked in virtual space!
Initiated and organized by Friederike Jesse (Project 1) and Ulrike Nowotnick (Project 2), numerous representatives of our projects met for the SPP2143 on June 4th via conference call to exchange information about ceramic finds, their sorting and documentation. ...
SPP 2143 at the World Archaeological Congress in Prague
Entangled Africa - Identity and Inner-African Interaction, a session organized by SPP scientists at WAC Prague 2020. ...
Two networks – one goal
The DFG Priority Programme (SPP) 2143: Entangled Africa and the TransArea Network Africa (TANA) have set themselves the task of illuminating Africa's history and integrating it into the knowledge network of the old world. ...
SPP Networking Meeting “Natural Sciences”, November 18-19, 2019
Climate change and anthropogenic changes in the environment are two topics on which the projects working in the natural sciences in the SPP exchange information. ...
SPP networking meeting ‘Ceramics’
Ceramics is not only the most common type of find that most archaeological projects in the Priority Programme (SPP) 2143 'Entangled Africa' are concerned with. ...