Paper resulting from the SPP ceramics workshop meetings, presenting a recording scheme for archaeological ceramics from Africa.
New publication on current research of the Connecting Foodways project.
Published dissertation on pottery use in Meroitic Hamadab.
Archaeobotanical study of useful plant cultivation in the Inner Congo Basin during the Iron Age.
Publication on vegetation dynamics in the Tibesti Mountains highland regions of Chad
In the journal "Archäologie in Deutschland" the coordinators describe the general content of their research project.
The paper deals with the study of a prehistoric drainage system based on remote sensing data.
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 6000...
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. [...]
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? [...]
