March 2020 – Entangled Africa

Report of the ‘Connecting Foodways’ project on 2019s work in Sudan

31. March 20204. October 2021Johanna Sigl

Focusing on past culinary practices, the “Connecting Foodways” project explores cross-cultural connections and technological transmission between the Middle Nile Valley and central and eastern Africa during the early Iron Age (ca. 1000 BC – 1000 AD). It is one of twelve projects of the DFG Priority Program “Entangled Africa” (SPP 2143), which explores inner-African relations and thereby develops new perspectives for joint archaeological research in Africa. [...]

Publication: Iron Age agricultural reliance in the Central African rainforest

27. March 20204. October 2021Johanna Sigl

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. [...]

Allgemein EN

Science at home

27. March 20201. April 2021Ann-Katharin Bahr

The world pauses - the new Covid-19 virus also leaves its mark on the priority programme "Entangled Africa". Carefully planned campaigns have been prematurely broken off or cancelled, trips by our African partners have been postponed. But there is also plenty of work to be done in the home office. [...]