Copyright: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Darmstadt Article – Project 12 – Coordination J. Sigl/J. Linstädter, Jahrtausendealt: Netzwerke südlich der Sahara, Archäologie in Deutschland 04, 2021, 14-19. Website of the magazine Abstract: Afrika ist Schauplatz sozialer, politischer und kultureller Umschwünge sowie einer Metamorphose von Natur, Mensch und Sprache, die bis heute anhält. Archäologisch gibt es dort noch...
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Publication: Wasser für Gala Abu Ahmed
PAPER – Project 3 – InterLINK J. Eger-Karberg/T. Karberg, Wasser für Gala Abu Ahmed. Ein Paläo-Drainagesystem zwischen Jebel Nagaschusch und Wadi Howar (Sudan) im Radar-Satellitenbild, Der Antike Sudan 32, 2021, 99-108 Full Text Abstract (Eger-Karberg/Karberg 2021): The analysis of spaceborn radar data from different satellite systems workinng in the X- ans C-band resulted in...
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 2018 to December 2020, in: eDAI-F 2021-1, 2021. Full Text | PDF Download Abstract (Source: e-Forschungsberichte DAI) The history of northern hemispheric Africa between...
New paper on human impact on Tigray’s landscape
The spatial relation between gully erosion and distance to settlements and footpaths, as typical areas of human interaction, with the natural environment in rural African areas is investigated....
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...
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...
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...