Connecting Foodways: Cultural Entanglement and Technological Transmission between the Middle Nile valley and central and eastern Africa during the Early Iron Age

连接食道：铁器时代早期中尼罗河谷与中非和东非之间的文化纠葛和技术传播

• 批准号: 404218798
• 负责人: Dr. Simone Wolf
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Zentrale Berlin
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/404218798?language=en
• 关键词: Connecting; Foodways; Cultural; Entanglement; Technological

Our contribution to the study of inter-regional African entanglements will explore cross-cultural connections in central and eastern Africa through the study of past foodways. A number of recently discovered kitchen contexts from the region of Meroe, Sudan, will serve as a basis for identifying a range of material correlates of preparatory and consumptive practices during the Early Iron Age (ca. 1000 BC – 1000 AD). Our multidisciplinary approach will focus on the functional traits of food-related material culture, incorporating a broad suite of laboratory analyses. These high resolution investigations will serve as the first step in generating a detailed model of the regional tradition of food processing and consumption. In a second step, the Meroe case study will then provide the basis for a cross-cultural comparison within the study area of central and eastern Africa, for example Eritrea, Ethiopia and Chad, utilising excavation material, legacy data and published sources. This way, specific food-related artefacts will serve as indicators of interaction throughout this region, to identify broader African traditions of food technologies.

我们对非洲区域间纠葛研究的贡献将通过研究过去的饮食方式来探索中非和东非的跨文化联系。最近在苏丹麦罗埃地区发现的一些厨房环境将作为确定早期铁器时代（约公元前 1000 年至公元 1000 年）期间准备和消费实践的一系列材料相关性的基础。我们的多学科方法将重点关注与食品相关的物质文化的功能特征，并结合广泛的实验室分析。这些高分辨率调查将成为生成区域食品加工和消费传统详细模型的第一步。第二步，麦罗埃案例研究将利用发掘材料、遗留数据和已发表的资料，为厄立特里亚、埃塞俄比亚和乍得等中非和东非研究区域内的跨文化比较提供基础。这样，特定的食品相关文物将作为整个地区互动的指标，以确定更广泛的非洲食品技术传统。