New Interdisciplinary Research from Africa's East to West Coast
1 SOUTH OF THE SAHARA, AFRICA »Entangled Africa« – new interdisciplinary research from Africa’s east to west coast December 2018 to December 2020 Commission for Archaeology of Non-European Cultures (KAAK) von Johanna Sigl, Jörg Linstädter e ·FORSCHUNGSBERICHTE DES DAI 2021· Faszikel 1 The history of northern hemispheric Africa between 6000 and 500 BP has Cooperations: University of Cologne; DAI, Headquarters Berlin, Department for Natural Scienc- been subject to many political, social and religious processes, to major es, IT Department, Oriental Department; Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster; Goethe climate and environmental events, to conflicts and migration. The archaeo- University Frankfurt a. M.; Université de N‘Djamena; Freie Universität Berlin; University of logical research work in Africa often took an extra-African point of view on Leipzig; Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam; University of Hamburg. these events and factors, thus it still lacks understanding of inner-African Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG), Priority Program ‘Entangled Africa’ (SPP 2143). processes. In the DFG-funded priority program »Entangled Africa« a funda- Head of the program: J. Linstädter. mental change of perspective is attempted. The interdisciplinary research Team: J. Sigl, A.-K. Bahr (Coordination: Project 12); F. Jesse, M. Schwienbacher (Necked axes: Project 01); S. Wolf, P. Wolf, U. Nowotnick, S. Matthews (Connecting Foodways: Project 02); A. work is focusing on indicators, mechanisms and patters of interaction in Lohwasser, J. Eger (InterLINK: Project 03); C. Magnavita, S. Magnavita, Z. Dangbet (The Lake sub-Saharan Africa from an inner-African point of view. Chad Region as a Crossroad: Project 04); A. Höhn (Cultivated Landscapes: Project 05); P. Hoe- lzmann, M.
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