Entangled Project Team

Dr Abigail Moffett

Principal Investigator

Abigail is an archaeologist specialising in the study of the African past and Africa within the context of global history.

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Dr Scott Dunleavy

Postdoctoral
Researcher

Scott is a Research Associate within the ENTANGLED Project, focused on historical material related to coastal-interior connections.

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Kelsi Kaviani

Postdoctoral
Researcher

Kelsi is an archaeological scientist specialising in the chemical analysis of glass materials, especially Late Antique and Islamic glass from North Africa and Eurasia.

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Dr Joanna Lawrence

Project Coordinator

Joanna is an archaeologist and the Project Coordinator for the ENTANGLED Project.

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Entangled Project Collaborators in Mozambique

Dr Solange Macamo

Solange is Associate Professor in Archaeology and Built Heritage at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology. She has coordinated numerous international and national research, teaching, and heritage conservation projects.

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Celso Simbine

Celso is a maritime and underwater archaeologist who has worked in Mozambique’s coastal and underwater environments of the Indian Ocean. He is a PhD student working on the project Maritime Cultural Landscapes. 

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José Cláudio Mandlate

Eduardo Mondlane University

Cláudio’s research interests cover a wide variety of topics, including pre-colonial and colonial economic history of Mozambique.

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Hamido Atuia

As an archaeologist and cultural heritage manager, Hamido’s area of specialty is the management, registration, inventory, and cataloguing of cultural heritage assets.

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Osvaldo Bernardo Marrame

Osvaldo has a degree in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management. His interests are in preservation archaeology, photographic recording of natural and archaeological landscapes, and the management and classification of Swahili archaeological monuments. 

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Pedro Moiane

Eduardo Mondlane University

Pedro is a scientific collaborator at Eduardo Mondlane University specialising in archaeology and cultural heritage management.

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Silva Mutombe

Silva is an archaeologist and cultural heritage manager, with a particular interest in the musealisation of archaeological sites for educational and tourism purposes.

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Júlio Machele

Eduardo Mondlane University

Júlio is a researcher and lecturer in the Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Eduardo Mondlane University. He studies the history of Mozambique, southern Africa and the African continent in general, up until the 19th century.

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Berta Macamo

Berta is a PhD student working on a project entitled “The microeconomic analysis of the use of solar cookers in mussel processing: The case of the Chongoene Archaeological and Biocultural Heritage Park.” 

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Entangled Project Collaborators

Prof Paul Lane

University of Cambridge

Paul specialises in sub-Saharan African archaeology, with interests including archaeology of colonial encounters, maritime archaeology, and the materialisation of memory.

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Prof Marcos Martinón-Torres

University of Cambridge

Much of Marcos’s research has focused on the analysis of material culture and the reverse engineering of archaeological technologies, as a starting point to understand the evolution and movement of knowledge, people and things.

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Prof Anneli Ekblom

Uppsala University

Anneli’s main research interests in recent years has centred on socio-environmental dynamics; an interdisciplinary study residing in the intersection between Environmental History, Historical Ecology and Archaeology. 

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Dr Jay Stephens

University of Missouri

Jay’s research focuses on the archaeometallurgical record of southern Africa. He aims to reconstruct the networks and behaviours responsible for producing and moving metal objects. 

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Dr Xander Antonites

University of Pretoria

Xander’s research interests revolve around the political economy of African Societies, particularly in the socio-political and economic interactions of communities and how these exchanges were mediated at a local level. 

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Project Advisory Board Members

Prof Shadreck Chirikure

University of Oxford

Prof Per Fredriksen

University of Oslo

Prof Annelou van Gijn

University of Leiden

Dr Stefania Merlo

University of Cambridge