Published dissertation on pottery use in Meroitic Hamadab....
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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....
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 fĂĽr 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 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 Ă©lite 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. ...