Ceramic processing must be flexible, able to adapt to the conditions of excavation and object. At the same time, the records of those working on this find genre from different regions should be comparable. Done to speed up and standardize the ceramic recording on site, the elaboration of the catalogue was successfully completed. [...]
Object of the discourse was the range of various forms of decoration and techniques that have been listed in the individual ceramic assortments of the projects. The projects of the scientists are located in Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia and in the area of the Middle Niger in West Africa. [...]
Initiated and organized by Friederike Jesse (Project 1) and Ulrike Nowotnick (Project 2), numerous representatives of our projects met for the SPP2143 on June 4th via conference call to exchange information about ceramic finds, their sorting and documentation. [...]
Between January and March 2020 the Connecting Foodways team travelled over 2500 kilometres along the Middle Nile Valley and across neighbouring deserts to visit museum collections and other archaeological missions. [...]
Entangled Africa - Identity and Inner-African Interaction, a session organized by SPP scientists at WAC Prague 2020. [...]
The DFG Priority Programme (SPP) 2143: Entangled Africa and the TransArea Network Africa (TANA) have set themselves the task of illuminating Africa's history and integrating it into the knowledge network of the old world. [...]
The priority programme "Entangled Africa" was represented by two lectures and numerous listeners. Jana Eger spoke about her project in Kordofan. Ulrike Nowotnick and Steven Matthews gave the current status of their project in the Middle Nile area. [...]
Ceramics is not only the most common type of find that most archaeological projects in the Priority Programme (SPP) 2143 'Entangled Africa' are concerned with. [...]
The term "entangled" is associated with a great variety of meanings. We are anxious to network the projects and research branches within the programme and within Africa - the term has a long historical tradition. [...]
