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Department of Archaeology

 
Read more at: MedAfrica Project - Archaeological deep history and dynamics of Mediterranean Africa, ca.9600-700 BC

MedAfrica Project - Archaeological deep history and dynamics of Mediterranean Africa, ca.9600-700 BC

This project sets out to produce a comprehensive, problematised synthesis and interpretation of long-term social and economic dynamics along Mediterranean Africa during the Holocene (9600-700 BC).


Read more at: Reinvigorating Scandinavian Research in African Archaeology

Reinvigorating Scandinavian Research in African Archaeology

As part of the international campaign to salvage sites threatened by construction of the second Aswan High Dam in southern Egypt, coordinated by UNESCO, researchers from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland collaborated on a series of archaeological campaigns between 1960 and 1964. Known as the Scandinavian Joint Expedition to Nubia, or SJE, this work generated a wealth of data and prompt publication of nine major excavation reports.