SPP 2143:  Entangled Africa: Intra-African connections between Rainforest and Mediterranean (ca. 6000 to 500 BP)

• Subject Area: Humanities
• Term: since 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 361129650

The focus of the Priority Program ‘Entangled Africa’ (SPP 2143) is on intra-African interactions in the past as well as on processes that originated on the African continent and affected neighboring regions. Underresearched areas in the northern hemispheric part of the continent are targeted. Indicators for interaction (e.g., non-local objects or raw materials, innovative technologies), mechanisms of interaction (for example, the types of migration, exchange, and trade), and patterns of interaction (the role of the geographic situation of a settlement, climate and environmental changes, etc.) from 6000 to 500 BP are examined in detail.

• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes
• International Connection: Netherlands, Sudan, USA

Projects

• Boundaries, Frontiers, and Conduits in the Middle to Late Holocene Archaeology and Palaeoecology of the Inner Congo Basin (Applicant Wotzka, Hans-Peter )
• ClimCellMed - Climate dynamics during the late Holocene derived from Cell structure measurements of juniper trees in the eastern Mediterranean (Applicant Heinrich, Ingo )
• Connecting Foodways: Cultural Entanglement and Technological Transmission between the Middle Nile valley and central and eastern Africa during the Early Iron Age (Applicant Wolf, Simone )
• Connecting the middle Niger through borrowed words and shared objects: Archaeo-linguistic network analysis and modelling of cultural entanglements between the Malian Sahara and the Nigerian forests (AD 700-1500). (Applicants Gestrich, Nikolas ;  Schreiber, Henning )
• Coordination Funds (Applicant Linstädter, Jörg )
• Cultivated Landscapes - Land use and cultural landscape development in north-hemispheric African savannas (Applicant Höhn, Alexa )
• ‘De-Greening’ of the central Sahara – northern Sahel: Holocene environmental dynamics and oases economies between 14-19°N (DeGree) (Applicant Hoelzmann, Philipp )
• FAIR.rdm - FAIR Management of African Archaeological Research Data (Applicants Mathiak, Brigitte ;  Paliou, Eleftheria )
• Interregional Linkage Investigations in Northern Kordofan (InterLINK) (Applicant Lohwasser, Angelika )
• Learning through connecting: data management as a basis for meaningful use of legacy data (Applicants Eide, Øyvind ;  Lenssen-Erz, Tilman )
• Prehistoric axes in the Sahara: a neglected find category. Haches à gorges, necked axes, Darfurbeile - contextualisation of a special form. (Applicant Jesse, Friederike )
• Routes of Interaction: Interregional Contacts between the Northern Horn of Africa and the Nile Region (Applicants Gerlach, Iris ;  Raue, Dietrich ;  Schütt, Brigitta )
• The Lake Chad Region as a Crossroads: first archaeological investigations into early Kanem-Borno and its intra-African connections (Applicant Magnavita, Carlos )
• Tracing Connections: Chemical composition analysis of archaeological pottery as indicator of interregional contacts in Western and Saharan Africa before AD 1300 (Applicant Magnavita Santos, Sonja )

• Spokesperson: Privatdozent Dr. Jörg Linstädter