On September 26, 2024, at the 17th Meeting of the African Economic History Network in Rome, our Beads Research Unit presented the first results of an ongoing collaboration with the Time Traveller’s team. Time Traveller is a Pre-colonial African Database, combining text analysis, maps and Data Science (you can discover more here). The research synergically employs qualitative and quantitative methodologies for African Economic History, showing how Africa was more economically integrated than previously thought.

Karin Pallaver from ABC and Lauren Coetzee from Time Traveller presenting the first results of our collaboration at the 17th AEHN Meeting in Rome, September 26, 2024.