SPP Annual Meeting 2024 in Cologne
Report on the Annual Meeting 2024 of the SPP which took place at the University of Cologne in mid January.
Category: P04 Lake Chad EN
Conference review: Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA), Houston, Texas – June 1st-6th 2023
Detailed report about the SPP's contriubutions at the 2023 SAfA in Houston.
SPP Annual Meeting at the Goethe-University Frankfurt from 16th to 17th January
Describing the conference experience in Frankfurt. In and beyond the conference room.
Exhibition Announcement: Lake Chad as a Crossroads at the Musée National du Tchad
The project "The Lake Chad Region as a Crossroads" presents new research on the history of the Kanem-Borno Empire starting in December 2024 at the Musée National du Chad.
“We have a plan…” Visit of the InterLINK project at the University of Frankfurt
Visit of the InterLINK project at the University of Frankfurt for scientific exchange.
The Lake Chad Region as a Crossroads – Lecture at the Ècole de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris)
Lecture at EHESS in Paris on the current research results from project 04 "The Lake Chad Region as a Crossroads".
Entangled Research – Entangled Africa: Report on the annual meeting 2021
At the SPP annual meeting held on Jan. 10, 2022, participants were able to enjoy the research results to date, along with exciting new findings.
Wavy Line and Herringbone
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. [...]
Pottery – The Devil is in the Detail
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. [...]
Entangled Africa – networked in virtual space!
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. [...]