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. [...]
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. [...]
The interdisciplinary research project aims to investigate inner-African contacts between the northern Horn of Africa, the Middle Nile, the northeast Sudanese Gash delta and parts of Egypt. [...]
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. [...]
Climate change and anthropogenic changes in the environment are two topics on which the projects working in the natural sciences in the SPP exchange information. [...]
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. [...]
