November 2020 – Entangled Africa

Publikation: Spätholozäne Vegetationsänderungen im südlichen Tschadbecken, Nigeria

19. November 20204. Oktober 2021Johanna Sigl

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 and changes through human exploitation of the landscape. [...]

Ingo Heinrich – vom SPP zum DAI

12. November 20204. Oktober 2021Johanna Sigl

SPP Projektleiter Ingo Heinrich (P08 – KlimZellMit) trat am 01. November 2020 die Nachfolge von Dendrochronologe Karl-Uwe Heußner am DAI an. Das SPP Entangled Africa gratuliert herzlich! [...]

Beitrag von C. Magnavita zum Zentralsudan im Oxford handbook of Islamic Archaeology

1. November 20204. Oktober 2021Johanna Sigl

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 the region that are virtually unexplored. [...]