Friederike Jesse
Biographic Data
| ID | 4065351 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Friederike Jesse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Friederike |
| FAMILY NAME | Jesse |
| SIGNATURE | JESSE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9653-5530 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1946 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Should Terms Such as ‘Bronze Age’ and ‘Iron Age’ be Used in the Context of Middle Nile Valley Archaeology
Bronze Age as a Term in Northeast African Archaeology? A Plea for Regional Chronologies
The paper discusses the relevance of the term ‘Bronze Age’ as a chronological term in Northeast Africa by taking a closer look at definitions and the presence of bronze objects especially in Nubia. As chronological classification very much depends on the area under consideration, the use of regional chronologies is proposed
The signature of the stones
First archaeometric analysis of stone axes from the Saharan region. • pXRF analysis is suitable for archaeological objects made of igneous rocks . • Taphonomic processes (e.g., weathering) do not alter pXRF results. • pXRF based cluster analysis in combination with macroscopic analyses provide distinct rock groups. Prehistoric stone axes are common in the Sahara but not much attention has been paid to them in recent research. Necked axes, also “h…
Pastoralism in Africa
Pastoralism has shaped livelihoods and landscapes on the African continent for millennia. Mobile livestock husbandry has generally been portrayed as an economic strategy that successfully met the challenges of low biomass productivity and environmental variability in arid and semi-arid environments. This volume focuses on the emergence, diversity, and inherent dynamics of pastoralism in Africa based on research during a twelve-year period on the …
‘I Hope Your Cattle Are Well’
From Hunters to Herders
The Nubian past cannot be fully understood without knowledge of occupation in the Libyan Desert west of the Nile. Hunter-gatherers occupied Nubia’s western hinterland during the Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Pottery and different pastoral adaptations featuring cattle, sheep, and goats appeared during the Middle Holocene. Cattle-centered behavior is evident: cattle largely dominates the economic and social life. Changing networks of contact and …
Rock Art and Archaeology – a Short Visit to Zolat el Hammad, Northern Sudan
The striking sandstone formation of Zolat el Hammad is located in the southern Libyan Desert, about halfway between the Middle Wadi Howar and El Atrun. The place has been known for its numerous rock engravings for more than a hundred years. Wild and domesticated animals as well as few human figures are depicted. Cattle engravings largely dominate, followed by giraffes and ostriches. In 1997 the first paintings were discovered in a small rock shel…
Digital Management of Rock Art
Archaeology is a costly and object-affine practice requiring sophisticated technical equipment, and therefore is largely initiated and run from industrialised countries. Accordingly, also data and objects are largely lodged in these countries. In rock art, this leads to the paradoxical situation that many motifs and sites with outstanding prehistoric art are better known and more often shown in northern hemisphere urban centres than in the global…
The Butana Group ceramics and their place in the Neolithic and Post-Neolithic of Northeast Africa
Friederike JesseInstitute for Prehistoric Archaeology, Forschungsstelle Afrika, University of Cologne, [email protected]© 2013, Friederike Jesse
Early Pottery in Northern Africa - An Overview
The emergence of pottery is a compelling issue for archaeologists. In Africa, pottery appeared in what is now the southern part of the Sahara and the Sahel at different localities and in different contexts in the 10th millennium bp. This paper aims to give an overview of the available data concerning early pottery in Northern Africa. The radiocarbon evidence is considered as well as technological features of the pottery, the decoration and the si…
On the Periphery of Kerma - The Handessi Horizon in Wadi Hariq, Northwestern Sudan
Wadi Hariq is a complex valley system in the Northwest Sudan about 400 km west of the Nile. Stratigraphic investigations provide new data on the environmental and climatic history of the present-day hyperarid centre of the southeastern Sahara. Archaeological work there only started at the end of the 1990s, with a survey and excavations carried out as part of the multidisciplinary research project ACACIA of the University of Cologne. To date, 104 …
Chemical characterization of ancient pottery from sudan by x‐ray fluorescence spectrometry (xrf), electron microprobe analyses (empa) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP–MS)
Sixty‐four sherds and seven natural clays from prehistoric sites in northwestern Sudan have been submitted to petrological and chemical analysis using XRF spectrometry, EMPA and ICP–MS. According to their texture, the sherds form five different groups. The high contents of P 2 O 5 (more than 0.5 wt%) discerned in 19 samples and the variation of the P 2 O 5 content in two samples of the same vessel can be explained by post‐depositional processes o…
Trial of Alma Victoria Rattenbury and George Percy Stoner
India Today
Early Pottery in Northern Africa - An Overview
The emergence of pottery is a compelling issue for archaeologists. In Africa, pottery appeared in what is now the southern part of the Sahara and the Sahel at different localities and in different contexts in the 10th millennium bp. This paper aims to give an overview of the available data concerning early pottery in Northern Africa. The radiocarbon evidence is considered as well as technological features of the pottery, the decoration and the si…
On the Periphery of Kerma - The Handessi Horizon in Wadi Hariq, Northwestern Sudan
Wadi Hariq is a complex valley system in the Northwest Sudan about 400 km west of the Nile. Stratigraphic investigations provide new data on the environmental and climatic history of the present-day hyperarid centre of the southeastern Sahara. Archaeological work there only started at the end of the 1990s, with a survey and excavations carried out as part of the multidisciplinary research project ACACIA of the University of Cologne. To date, 104 …
Chemical characterization of ancient pottery from sudan by x‐ray fluorescence spectrometry (xrf), electron microprobe analyses (empa) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP–MS)
Sixty‐four sherds and seven natural clays from prehistoric sites in northwestern Sudan have been submitted to petrological and chemical analysis using XRF spectrometry, EMPA and ICP–MS. According to their texture, the sherds form five different groups. The high contents of P 2 O 5 (more than 0.5 wt%) discerned in 19 samples and the variation of the P 2 O 5 content in two samples of the same vessel can be explained by post‐depositional processes o…
The signature of the stones
First archaeometric analysis of stone axes from the Saharan region. • pXRF analysis is suitable for archaeological objects made of igneous rocks . • Taphonomic processes (e.g., weathering) do not alter pXRF results. • pXRF based cluster analysis in combination with macroscopic analyses provide distinct rock groups. Prehistoric stone axes are common in the Sahara but not much attention has been paid to them in recent research. Necked axes, also “h…
Digital Management of Rock Art
Archaeology is a costly and object-affine practice requiring sophisticated technical equipment, and therefore is largely initiated and run from industrialised countries. Accordingly, also data and objects are largely lodged in these countries. In rock art, this leads to the paradoxical situation that many motifs and sites with outstanding prehistoric art are better known and more often shown in northern hemisphere urban centres than in the global…
The Butana Group ceramics and their place in the Neolithic and Post-Neolithic of Northeast Africa
Friederike JesseInstitute for Prehistoric Archaeology, Forschungsstelle Afrika, University of Cologne, [email protected]© 2013, Friederike Jesse
India Today
Trial of Alma Victoria Rattenbury and George Percy Stoner
On the Periphery of Kerma - The Handessi Horizon in Wadi Hariq, Northwestern Sudan
Wadi Hariq is a complex valley system in the Northwest Sudan about 400 km west of the Nile. Stratigraphic investigations provide new data on the environmental and climatic history of the present-day hyperarid centre of the southeastern Sahara. Archaeological work there only started at the end of the 1990s, with a survey and excavations carried out as part of the multidisciplinary research project ACACIA of the University of Cologne. To date, 104 …
Chemical characterization of ancient pottery from sudan by x‐ray fluorescence spectrometry (xrf), electron microprobe analyses (empa) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP–MS)
Sixty‐four sherds and seven natural clays from prehistoric sites in northwestern Sudan have been submitted to petrological and chemical analysis using XRF spectrometry, EMPA and ICP–MS. According to their texture, the sherds form five different groups. The high contents of P 2 O 5 (more than 0.5 wt%) discerned in 19 samples and the variation of the P 2 O 5 content in two samples of the same vessel can be explained by post‐depositional processes o…
Early Pottery in Northern Africa - An Overview
The emergence of pottery is a compelling issue for archaeologists. In Africa, pottery appeared in what is now the southern part of the Sahara and the Sahel at different localities and in different contexts in the 10th millennium bp. This paper aims to give an overview of the available data concerning early pottery in Northern Africa. The radiocarbon evidence is considered as well as technological features of the pottery, the decoration and the si…
The Butana Group ceramics and their place in the Neolithic and Post-Neolithic of Northeast Africa
Friederike JesseInstitute for Prehistoric Archaeology, Forschungsstelle Afrika, University of Cologne, [email protected]© 2013, Friederike Jesse
Digital Management of Rock Art
Archaeology is a costly and object-affine practice requiring sophisticated technical equipment, and therefore is largely initiated and run from industrialised countries. Accordingly, also data and objects are largely lodged in these countries. In rock art, this leads to the paradoxical situation that many motifs and sites with outstanding prehistoric art are better known and more often shown in northern hemisphere urban centres than in the global…
Rock Art and Archaeology – a Short Visit to Zolat el Hammad, Northern Sudan
The striking sandstone formation of Zolat el Hammad is located in the southern Libyan Desert, about halfway between the Middle Wadi Howar and El Atrun. The place has been known for its numerous rock engravings for more than a hundred years. Wild and domesticated animals as well as few human figures are depicted. Cattle engravings largely dominate, followed by giraffes and ostriches. In 1997 the first paintings were discovered in a small rock shel…
From Hunters to Herders
The Nubian past cannot be fully understood without knowledge of occupation in the Libyan Desert west of the Nile. Hunter-gatherers occupied Nubia’s western hinterland during the Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Pottery and different pastoral adaptations featuring cattle, sheep, and goats appeared during the Middle Holocene. Cattle-centered behavior is evident: cattle largely dominates the economic and social life. Changing networks of contact and …
Pastoralism in Africa
Pastoralism has shaped livelihoods and landscapes on the African continent for millennia. Mobile livestock husbandry has generally been portrayed as an economic strategy that successfully met the challenges of low biomass productivity and environmental variability in arid and semi-arid environments. This volume focuses on the emergence, diversity, and inherent dynamics of pastoralism in Africa based on research during a twelve-year period on the …
‘I Hope Your Cattle Are Well’
The signature of the stones
First archaeometric analysis of stone axes from the Saharan region. • pXRF analysis is suitable for archaeological objects made of igneous rocks . • Taphonomic processes (e.g., weathering) do not alter pXRF results. • pXRF based cluster analysis in combination with macroscopic analyses provide distinct rock groups. Prehistoric stone axes are common in the Sahara but not much attention has been paid to them in recent research. Necked axes, also “h…
Should Terms Such as ‘Bronze Age’ and ‘Iron Age’ be Used in the Context of Middle Nile Valley Archaeology
Bronze Age as a Term in Northeast African Archaeology? A Plea for Regional Chronologies
The paper discusses the relevance of the term ‘Bronze Age’ as a chronological term in Northeast Africa by taking a closer look at definitions and the presence of bronze objects especially in Nubia. As chronological classification very much depends on the area under consideration, the use of regional chronologies is proposed
Archaeology (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · History (7 works) · Prehistory (6 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (5 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (4 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · Geology (4 works) · Pottery (4 works)