Food Crops and Subsistence Strategies of Medieval and Post-Medieval Nubia
Mødedato: Onsdag d. 5. November 2025, kl. 18.00
Lokale: KUA 12.0.37
v. Mohammed Nasreldein, PhD, Department of Archaeology, University of Gezira, Sudan
This lecture explores how food practices and agricultural systems in Nubia evolved during a time of major political and social transformation. Focusing on archaeobotanical evidence from Old Dongola (14th–18th centuries CE), it reveals how communities navigated change through their cultivation and use of both cultivated and wild plants. The talk highlights recent findings and discusses how archaeobotany sheds light on resilience, adaptation, and daily life in medieval and post-medieval Nubia.
Short biography
Mohammed Nasreldein is a Sudanese archaeobotanist, affiliated as a lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, University of Gezira in Sudan. Mohammed holds a PhD in Archaeological Sciences from the University of Tübingen, Germany. His research focuses on ancient Nubian subsistence strategies and agricultural production during medieval and post-medieval periods. Mohammed worked as a team member at the University of Warsaw ERC-UMMA project at Old Dongola, where he worked as an archaeobotanist. He has joined several expeditions as an archaeologist across Sudan since 2015.