Atlas of Cultural and Environmental Change in Arid Africa

• Environmental change and cultural history in northeastern and southwestern Africa — Rudolph Kuper, Wilhelm Möhlig, Michael Bollig & Olaf Bubenzer
• ACACIA – central administration and coordination — Werner Schuck

Reconstructing environment and human occupation

• From hyperarid to semiarid – actual climatic conditions in northeastern and southwestern Africa — Olaf Bubenzer & Mathias Ritter
• From space to earth – use of satellite data in ACACIA — Andreas Bolten
• Watershed analysis in the Western Desert of Egypt — Andreas Bolten & Olaf Bubenzer
• 'Looking behind the scenes' – archaeological distribution patterns and their meaning — Rudolph Kuper
• Djara – humans and their environment on the Egyptian limestone plateau around 8,000 years ago — Karin Kindermann & Olaf Bubenzer
• Mapping the movement of pastro-foragers: the spread of Desert Glass and other objects in the eastern Sahara during the Holocene 'humid phase' — Heiko Riemer
• Rocky islands within oceans of sand – archaeology of the Jebel Ouenat / Gilf Kebir region, eastern Sahara — Jörg Linstädter
• The Wadi Howar — Stefan Kröpelin
• The flora and vegetation of Wadi Howar — Stefanie Nussbaum, Stefan Kröpelin & Frank Darius
• Holocene settlement dynamics in the Wadi Howar region (Sudan) and the Ennedi Mountains (Chad) — Friederike Jesse & Birgit Keding
• Transformations of settlement patterns in the Middle Wadi Howar during the Holocene — Birgit Keding & Ursula Eisenhauer
• Cattle herding in the southern Libyan Desert — Friederike Jesse, Birgit Keding, Nadja Pöllath, Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst & Tilman Lenssen-Erz
• Ennedi Highlands, Chad – artists and herders in a lifeworld on the margins — Tilman Lenssen-Erz
• The Saharan lakes of Ounianga Serir – a unique hydrological system — Stefan Kröpelin
• High-resolution climate archives in the Sahara (Ounianga, Chad) — Stefan Kröpelin
• Reconnaissance of the Erdi Ma (northeast Chad) — Stefan Kröpelin
• Dunes and megadunes in the southern Namib Erg and the southern Great Sand Sea – a transcontinental comparison — Helga Besler, Oliver Bödeker & Olaf Bubenzer
• Holocene climatic change, human adaptation and landscape degradation in arid Africa as evidenced by the faunal record — Nadja Pöllath & Joris Peters
• Changing settlement patterns in Namibia during the Holocene — Ralf Vogelsang & Karl Peter Wendt
• Brandberg/Daureb, Namibia – painters of a prehistoric hunter-gatherer world — Tilman Lenssen-Erz

Landscape and land use

• Climate, relief, bedrock and substrate – main factors for the soil formation in arid regions — Olaf Bubenzer & Andreas Bolten
• In search of the bloom – plants as witnesses to the humid past — Frank Darius & Stefanie Nussbaum
• Vegetation mapping for the evaluation of traditional land use and conservation activities in the northern Richtersveld, Namaqualand (South Africa) — Stefanie Nussbaum & Frank Darius
• Biomass production and seasonal ecologic behaviour based on a remote sensing modelling approach — Jochen Richters
• Geomorphological-climatological interactions in the Dakhla Oasis (Western Desert of Egypt) — Mathias Ritter
• Spectral analysis of remote sensing data for geomorphological, geological and geoecological research in arid Africa — Guido Waldhoff
• High resolution satellite images and Differential GPS in geomorphological and geoarchaeological research on Boni Island (Fourth Nile Cataract, north Sudan) — Mathias Ritter & Tobias Diehl
• Landscape and logistics – the success of Ancient Egypt — Michael Herb
• Inequalities inscribed in landscape — Michael Schnegg & Torsten Welle
• Space matters – sustainable range management in a highly variable environment — Anja Linstädter & Andreas Bolten
• Natural resource management in a conservancy in northern Namibia — Bettina Zieß
• Adaptation strategies on a local scale in the context of Global Change? — Torsten Welle
• Mapping culture, representing boundaries and politicising difference – reflections on two San cases in Namibia — Gertrud Boden
• Poetry, landscape and the spatialisation of collective memory in Otjiherero praise poems — Laura E. Bleckmann
• Desert parks in the eastern Sahara — Rudolph Kuper
• Wadi Howar National Park — Stefan Kröpelin & Sven Oehm
• 100 years of Etosha – an issue of people and parks — Ute Dieckmann

Routes and trade

• The Abu Ballas Trail: a Pharaonic donkey-caravan route in the Libyan Desert (SW-Egypt) — Frank Förster
• The archaeology of a desert road – the navigation system of the Abu Ballas Trail — Heiko Riemer
• Caravan routes – discovered with satellite eyes — Jan Skriwanek
• Mobile oases in the Libyan Desert — Meike Meerpohl
• The long journey – aspects of labour migration in Kunene South — Clemens Greiner

Language and space

• Namibian languages — Wilhelm Möhlig & Frank Seidel
• The Wadi Howar diaspora – linking linguistic diffusion to palaeoclimatological and archaeological findings — Gerrit Dimmendaal
• Northern Namibia – overview of its historiography based on linguistic and extralinguistic evidence — Frank Seidel, Eileen Kose & Wilhelm Möhlig
• Folktales as a source of investigation of cultural diffusion in Namibia and southern Angola — Marc Seifert
• 'Astronomy of the For' – orientation in time and space — Christine Waag

Economic and demographic change

• The European agricultural appropriation of the Outjo district in northern central Namibia — Ute Dieckmann
• Economic trends and coping strategies in the history of European farming in northern central Namibia — Ute Dieckmann
• Boreholes – the dynamics of pastoralism in northwestern Namibia — Michael Bollig
• 'Going to greet the relatives' – household economy, mobility and politics in Dar Zaghawa, NE-Chad — Grit Jungstand
• Settlement patterns in a risky environment – Tama villages in northeastern Chad — Babett Janszky
• 'We can count on us' – the stability of households in the Richtersveld, South Africa — Susanne Berzborn
• Gendered space – female headed households in Fransfontein, northwest Namibia — Julia Pauli
• How history crosses the threshold of the domestic sphere – persistence and change within Khwe residential units in West Caprivi — Gertrud Boden
• Sharing space and food in Namibia — Michael Schnegg & Andreas Bolten
• Inheritance and maintenance among the Himba of the Kunene region — Michael Bollig

• Bibliography
• Satellite-image maps
• List of abbreviations