Publikationen
The project »Routes of Interaction« is a collaboration between the Sanaa Branch of the Orient-Department, the Department of Earth Sciences – Physical Geography of the Freie Universität Berlin and the Egyptian Museum – Georg Steindorff, Leipzig University. Embedded into the SPP Programme of the DFG »Entangled Africa«, field work has been carried out since 2018. […]
Mit dem Fokus auf historische Ernährungsgewohnheiten erforscht das Projekt „Connecting Foodways“ kulturübergreifende Verbindungen und technologische Transfers zwischen dem mittleren Niltal und Zentral- und Ostafrika während der frühen Eisenzeit (ca. 1000 v. Chr. – 1000 n. Chr.). Es ist eines von zwölf Projekten des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms „Entangled Africa“ (SPP 2143), das innerafrikanische Beziehungen erforscht und damit neue Perspektiven für die gemeinsame archäologische Forschung in Afrika entwickelt. […]
The emergence of agriculture in Central Africa has previously been associated with the migration of Bantu-speaking populations during an anthropogenic or climate-driven ‘opening’ of the rainforest. […]
The history of the Lake Chad region is intrinsically linked to the Kanem-Borno Empire (8th-19th century AD), the earliest, longest-lived and most powerful state in the Central Sudan. […]
This paper presents some medieval material from remote areas within the Bayuda and the Western Deserts in Sudan, and draws several conclusions about the presence of Christianity and the Makurian administration within them. […]
The archaeology of food has great potential for developing a more inclusive approach to the investigation of past African society and interaction beyond a traditional emphasis on the lifestyles and activities of social elites. […]
Das Forschungsprojekt „InterLINK – Interregional Linkage Investigations
in Northern Kordofan“ der Forschungsstelle Alter Sudan erforscht mögliche Verbindungen zwischen den antiken und mittelalterlichen Kulturen des Niltals und ihren näheren und ferneren Nachbarn im Westen. […]
The frontiers of the medieval Nubian states often evoke the riverine landscape of the Nile. For example, in a 2002 overview, Derek Welsby wrote, “virtually no sites [of medieval Nubia] are known outside the Nile valley.” […]
Die Forschungsverbünde TransArea Network Africa (TANA) und Entangled Africa beschäftigen sich mit der Geschichte Afrika. […]
