Fig. 1 Discussion of excavation strategy and documentation in Abbir Cella Fig. 2 Construction of the fence and site work during the creation of the Didon Quarter Archaeological Park, Carthage Fig. 3 Construction of the museum in the Didon Quarter Archaeological Park, Carthage The DAI has been working successfully and in close cooperation with colleagues […]

Fig. 1 Remains of dry stone walls as witnesses of homesteads and demarcations of farmland Fig. 2 Students from the Witwatersrand University of Johannesburg and the Universities of Hamburg and Tübingen Fig. 3 Rock engravings in the immediate vicinity of the walls The South Africa, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies at the Witwatersrand […]

Fig. 1 Computer-aided work on the 3D-model of the Boma at Pangani Fig. 2 Surveying work at the Boma in 2023 Fig. 3 Evaluation of the condition of buildings on the site of the Boma The town of Pangani in north-eastern Tanzania was once an important trading town on the Swahili coast of East Africa. […]

Fig. 1 The surveying team at work on the administration building in Kpando-Todzi Fig. 2 Drone photo of the school buildings of the Catholic Mission in Kpando Fig. 3 3D-visualization of the palace of the Paramount Chief in Kpando Since 2022, the ‘Volta-German Shared Colonial Heritage Project’, led by Jörg Linstädter, Cornelia Kleinitz and Wazi […]

Fig. 1 Carl Wiese to Felix von Luschan, January 16, 1906 Fig. 2 Ruggs new map of the Western Nyassaland Goldfields : especially illustrating the explorations of Carl Wiese from 1885 to 1891 Fig. 3 Postcard of the Royal Museum of Ethnology, around 1900 Fig. 4 Carl Wiese to Felix von Luschan, January 2, 1901 European […]

Micromorpholical sampling at Lions Cave Excavations at the Muti Muti shelter Finding-spot Muti Muti In 2023, our team with members of the DAI, the Senckenberg Center for Humanfor Human Evolution, the University of Tübingen, the University of Missouri and theEswatini National Trust Commission (ENTC) were again active at several sites in Eswatini.active. As part of […]

Fig. 1 Thin section Changalane Fig. 2 Pottery survey Changalane Fig. 3 Pottery sampling Changalane In April 2023, a project meeting was held at the KAAK with project manager JörgLinstädter, cooperation partner Decio Muianga from the Eduardo Mondlane Universidadeand the project partners Martina Seifert and Sabrina Stempfle. The focusof the meeting was on the current […]

Fig. 1 Sorghum, a locally domesticated crop, is the most important staple food in Sudan Fig. 2 Cooking millet porridge involves several steps, which are often performed jointly by women Fig. 3 Sherds of Iron Age cooking pots sampled for Organic Residue Analysis Fig. 4 Examples of early Iron Age cooking pots, showing great similarities […]

Planet Africa – Archaeological Time Travel Meeting with Wazi Apoh at the KAAK Thematic modules of the Planet Africa exhibition African artists created illustrations for every thematic module “Planet Africa” is being created under the direction of Jörg Linstädter in collaboration with Gerd-Christian Weniger (University of Cologne), Wazi Apoh (University of Ghana) and the MVF, […]

Edo|cation: Capacity Building and Research in Nigeria After previous talks between Nigerian and German delegations on the restitution of the so.called “Benin Bronzes”, the work of the project “Edo|cation”, initiated by the Commission for Archaeology of Non-European Cultures (KAAK) at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), begun with funding from the German Federal Office in 2022. […]