Raum & Zeit
The Connecting Foodways project investigates cultural entanglement across northern sub-Saharan Africa during the Early Iron Age (c. 1000 BC to AD 1000).
Particularly northern East Africa was an important zone of entanglement between African and ...
Near Eastern food traditions. Detailed evidence for culinary traditions of this region come from a number of sites excavated by the DAI in Sudan and Ethiopia, such as Hamadab, Meroe, and Ziban Adi. This includes data from kitchens and cooking areas from settlements along the Middle Nile valley, within the Kingdom of Kush, and from the pre-Aksumite complex and Aksumite kingdom in the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Moving further west, ceramic assemblages and food remains from north Central and West Africa provide the analytical basis for exploring the transmission of culinary traits across wider sub-Saharan Africa. To this end, we use data sets from the Lake Chad basin, the Nok complex of Nigeria, the Middle Niger, as well as Mauritania and Senegal, generously provided by our collaborative partners in Europe and Africa.