Launch of the JoGA Special Issue 2025/26

This special issue of the Journal of Global Archaeology (JoGA) is the first of its kind since the launch of JoGA in 2020 as an open access online journal based at the Commission for Archaeology of Non-European Cultures (KAAK) of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). The JoGA Special Issue 2025/26 is also the first publication of contributions presented at a TransArea Network Africa (TANA) meeting. TANA serves as one of the collaborative formats within the DAI to facilitate networking between its various departments and commissions that are running projects in Africa. TANA facilitates exchange between members of the DAI and their African and global partners in order to support and strengthen archaeological research and heritage conservation in Africa. Annual meetings have taken place in Germany and several African countries, such as Tunisia, Egypt, Ghana and Morocco, during which members and African partners presented their work and discussed overarching issues relating to the archaeology of Africa.

The JoGA Special Issue 2025/26 is edited by Jörg Linstädter, Cornelia Kleinitz and Wazi Apoh. It brings together research that was presented during, and inspired by, the TANA meeting at the University of Ghana in Accra/Legon in February 2022. Under the title ‘Archaeologies of Africa from Prehistory to the Colonial Period: Proceedings of the TransArea Network Africa (TANA) Meeting of the German Archaeological Institute at the University of Ghana’, the volume provides insights into research undertaken at the DAI as well as at the University of Ghana by giving a platform to early career as well as advanced scholars from Germany and Ghana. The contributions are published one after the other as they have passed the double-blind review process.

The entire JoGA Special Issue 2025/26 is accessible here: https://publications.dainst.org/journals/joga/issue/view/705

The Editorial can be downloaded here as a PDF or read in the Journal Viewer: https://publications.dainst.org/journals/joga/article/view/5146