Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissen­schaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Archäologie

in press

C. Kleinitz, E. Mjema, M. Chami, S. Kizito, P.J. Lane, E. Ntikachika, A. Ndyanabo, M. Kisoma, C. Hartl-Reiter & T. Bunk, Developing Collaborative Approaches to the (Built) ‘Shared Heritage’ of German Colonialism in Pangani, Tanzania, in: M. Falser, G. Horn & T. Mager (Eds.), Monuments and Sites de-colonial! Methods and Strategies of Dealing with the Architectural Heritage of the German Colonial Era. ICOMOS Hefte des deutschen Nationalkomitees

in press

J. Linstädter, W. Apoh, E.K. Fiador, C. Kleinitz, D. Kurapkat, K. Loges, U. Verstegen & A. Zeitler, Investigating the ‘shared heritage’ of German colonial period buildings and infrastructures in the Volta Region of Ghana, in: M. Falser, G. Horn & T. Mager (Eds.), Monuments and Sites de-colonial! Methods and Strategies of Dealing with the Architectural Heritage of the German Colonial Era. ICOMOS Hefte des deutschen Nationalkomitees

in press

C. Kleinitz, W. Apoh, E.K. Fiador, C. Hartl-Reiter, B. Kleefeld, D. Kurapkat, J. Linstädter, K. Loges, U. Verstegen & A. Zeitler, Kpando, Ghana. Investigating townscapes and soundscapes of the German colonial period: Building archaeology, (oral) histories and sound research in the Volta Region. Research in 2024, e-Forschungsberichte des DAI 2024-2

in press

C. Kleinitz, E.A. Nyarko, E.K. Fiador & C. Hartl-Reiter, Princes Town & Akwidaa, Ghana. Early ‘Shared Heritage’ of German-African Interactions: The Brandenburg-Prussian Forts on the West Coast of Ghana and their Local Communities. Research in 2024, e-Forschungsberichte des DAI 2024-2

2024

C. Kleinitz & J. Linstädter, Archäologie des deutschen Kolonialismus: Gemeinsames Erbe in Afrika, Archäologie in Deutschland 3, 2024: 14-19.

2023

C. Kleinitz, A. Mohamed Ali Saeed, H. Ebeid-Allah, Musawwarat es-Sufra, Sudan: Developing a 'Collaborative Archaeology' of Pastoralism in the Hinterland of the Nile. Research between 2021 and 2023. e-Forschungsberichte des DAI 2023-2: 116-126.

2023

C. Kleinitz, W. Apoh, E.K. Fiador, D. Kurapkat, J. Linstädter, K. Loges, U. Verstegen & A. Zeitler, Kpando, Volta Region, Ghana: Archaeology and 'Shared Heritage' of German Colonialism in Former Togoland. Research in 2022 and 2023. e-Forschungsberichte des DAI 2023-2: 20-32.

2023

C. Kleinitz, W. Apoh, E.K. Fiador, D. Kurapkat, J. Linstädter, K. Loges, U. Verstegen & A. Zeitler, Archäologie und "gemeinsames Erbe" des deutschen Kolonialismus in Afrika: das Volta-German Shared Colonial Heritage Project in Ghana. Blickpunkt Archäologie 2023-2: 109-121.

2022

C. Kleinitz & J. Linstädter, Archaeology and (shared) heritage of German colonialism in Africa. TANA TransArea Network Africa 2022, Berlin, 121-124.

2022

C. Kleinitz, Musawwarat es-Sufra, Sudan: the archaeology of a ceremonial center of the Kingdom of Kush. TANA TransArea Network Africa 2022, Berlin, 69-73.

2019

C. Kleinitz, J. de Torres Rodriguez & P. Rodriguez Simon, (Re-)Investigating (indigenous) cult at Musawwarat es-Sufra (Sudan): Excavations and mapping at the Apedemak Temple and in adjacent areas during the 2018-2019 field season. Nyame Akuma 92: 25-35.

C. Kleinitz, The Sudan Archaeological Collection & Archive at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: History, components and perspectives. Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin 30, 35-60.

C. Kleinitz, The 2016/17 season at Musawwarat es-Sufra (Sudan): From conservation planning, applied conservation and protection measures to archaeological and social anthropological research. Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin 30, 7-33.

C. Kleinitz, Graffiti from the ancient sandstone quarries of Meroe: An overview. In: Brigitte Cech, Thilo Rehren & Ali Mohamed Abdelrahman (eds.), The Quarries of Meroe, Sudan. Part 1: Texts. Doha: UCL Qatar Series in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 2, 93-117.

J. Hallof & C. Kleinitz, Meroitic cursive inscriptions in the sandstone quarries of Meroe. In: Brigitte Cech, Thilo Rehren & Ali Mohamed Abdelrahman (eds.), The Quarries of Meroe, Sudan. Part 1: Texts. Doha: UCL Qatar Series in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 2, 118-126.

A. Tsakos & C. Kleinitz, Medieval graffiti in the sandstone quarries of Meroe: Texts, monograms and cryptograms of Christian Nubia. In: Brigitte Cech, Thilo Rehren & Ali Mohamed Abdelrahman (eds.), The Quarries of Meroe, Sudan. Part 1: Texts. Doha: UCL Qatar Series in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 2, 127-142.

C. Kleinitz, The Sudan Archaeological Collection & Archive at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. History, objects and archival materials (Project poster 'Archaeology at the Archive' for the Conference 'BERLIN-SUDAN. The History of Berlin-based Research on Northeast Africa. Change, Continuity and Scientific 'Zeitgeist' from the Kingdom of Prussia until the End of the GDR', Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin + Berliner Antike-Kolleg, 30 June - 01 July).

C. Kleinitz & J. Petschner, The Epigraphic Expedition to Sudanese Nubia: Encountering Nubia and Nubians during the UNESCO-Campaigns of the early 1960s (Project poster 'Archaeology at the Archive' for the Conference 'BERLIN-SUDAN. The History of Berlin-based Research on Northeast Africa. Change, Continuity and Scientific 'Zeitgeist' from the Kingdom of Prussia until the End of the GDR', Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin + Berliner Antike-Kolleg, 30 June - 01 July).

A. Magliocchi & C. Kleinitz, The representation of the Epigraphic Expedition to Sudanese Nubia in the East German print media (Project poster 'Archaeology at the Archive' for the Conference 'BERLIN-SUDAN. The History of Berlin-based Research on Northeast Africa. Change, Continuity and Scientific 'Zeitgeist' from the Kingdom of Prussia until the End of the GDR', Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin + Berliner Antike-Kolleg, 30 June - 01 July).

A. Riedel, M.S. Bashir, P. Wolf, M.B. Mohamed & C. Kleinitz, The Qatari Mission for the Pyramids of Sudan – Archaeological investigation, conservation and site management at Meroe 2015/2016. Sudan & Nubia 20, 62-74.

C. Kleinitz, R. Till & B.J. Baker, The Qatar-Sudan Archaeological Project – Archaeology and acoustics of rock gongs in the ASU BONE concession above the Fourth Nile Cataract, Sudan: a preliminary report. Sudan & Nubia 19, 106-114.

C. Kleinitz, Protecting and presenting Sudan's World Heritage: An evaluation of visitor behaviour and expectations at Musawwarat es-Sufra as a prerequisite for site management planning (Poster for the 13th International Conference for Nubian Studies (ISNS), Université de Neuchâtel, 01-06 September).

C. Kleinitz & S. Merlo, Towards a collaborative exploration of community heritage in archaeological salvage contexts: Participatory mapping on Mograt Island, Sudan. Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin 25, 161-175.

C. Kleinitz & C. Näser, Site management planning at Musawwarat es-Sufra, Sudan: Condition assessments, conservation and rehabilitation measures, and the development of a first visitor guidance system. Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin 25, 7-26.

2014

C. Kleinitz, The graffiti of Musawwarat es-Sufra: current research on historic inscriptions, images and markings at the Great Enclosure. Sudan & Nubia 18, 93-103.

2013

C. Kleinitz, Between valorisation and devaluation: making and unmaking (world) heritage in Sudan. Archaeologies 9 (3), 427-469.

C. Kleinitz, C. Näser & S. Altekamp (eds.), Global Heritage – Worlds Apart? The Cultural Production, Appropriation and Consumption of Archaeological Heritage Spaces in Northern Africa and the Middle East. Special Issue of Archaeologies 9 (3).

2013

C. Kleinitz, C. Näser & S. Altekamp, Global heritage - worlds apart? Archaeologies 9 (3), 357-361.

C. Kleinitz & C. Näser, Archaeology, development and conflict: a case study from the African continent. Archaeologies 9 (1), 162-191.

C. Kleinitz,  Die Sekundärbilder und -inschriften der Großen Anlage von Musawwarat es Sufra und das Musawwarat Graffiti Project. In: St. Wenig & K. Zibelius-Chen (eds.), Die Kulturen Nubiens – ein afrikanisches Vermächtnis. Dettelbach: J.H. Roell, 399-413.

C. Kleinitz, Bilder der Vergangenheit: Die Felskunst des mittleren Niltals. In: St. Wenig & K. Zibelius-Chen (eds.), Die Kulturen Nubiens – ein afrikanisches Vermächtnis. Dettelbach: J.H. Roell, 341-359.

C. Kleinitz & C. Näser (eds.), 'Nihna nas al-bahar – We are the people of the river'. Ethnographic Research in the Fourth Nile Cataract Region (Sudan). Meroitica 26. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

C. Näser & C. Kleinitz, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: a case study on the politicisation of archaeology and its consequences from northern Sudan. In: C. Kleinitz & C. Näser (eds.), 'Nihna nas al-bahar – We are the people of the river'. Ethnographic Research in the Fourth Nile Cataract Region (Sudan). Meroitica 26. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 269-304.

C. Kleinitz & C. Näser, Introduction. In: C. Kleinitz & C. Näser (eds.), 'Nihna nas al-bahar – We are the people of the river'. Ethnographic Research in the Fourth Nile Cataract Region (Sudan). Meroitica 26. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1-4.

C. Kleinitz, Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) in der Bestandsdokumentation der Sekundärbilder und -inschriften von Musawwarat es Sufra im Rahmen des Musawwarat Graffiti Project. Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin 23, 7-20.

C. Kleinitz, Rock art of the Fourth Nile cataract: an overview. In: H-P. Wotzka (ed.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Archaeology of the Fourth Nile Cataract, University of Cologne 13-14 July 2006. Africa Praehistorica 22. Cologne: Heinrich-Barth-Institut, 31-48.

C. Kleinitz & C. Näser, The loss of innocence: political and ethical dimensions of the Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project at the Fourth Nile Cataract (Sudan). Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites 13 (2-3), 253-280.

C. Kleinitz, H. Rüther & C. Näser, Die 3D-Laserscan-Erfassung der Großen Anlage und weiterer Monumente von Musawwarat es Sufra – ein Beitrag zur virtuellen Erhaltung und Präsentation des sudanesischen Kulturerbes. Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin 21, 23-32.

C. Näser & C. Kleinitz, The Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project at the Fourth Nile Cataract: salvage archaeology in the context of major development projects in Africa. In: H. Paner, St. Jakobielski & Julie R. Anderson (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference "The Fourth Cataract Archaeological Salvage Project 1996–2009". Gdańsk, 2-4 July, 2009. Gdańsk Archaeological Museum and Heritage Protection Fund African Reports 7, Gdańsk, 109-116.

C. Näser & C. Kleinitz, The role of archaeology in the context of contested development projects: a case study from the African continent. In: F.T. Schipper & Magnus T. Bernhardsson (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on "Archaeology in Conflict", Vienna, 6 to 10 April 2010, Forum Archaeologiae 55 / VI, 2010.

C. Kleinitz, Acoustic elements of (pre)historic rock art landscapes at the Fourth Nile Cataract. In: W. Godlewski & A. Lajtar (eds.), Between the Cataracts. Proceedings of the 11th Conference of Nubian Studies, Warsaw University, 27 August - 2 September 2006. Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean Supplement Series Volume, 2, Part 2, Fasc. 1 (Session Papers). Warsaw: Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology & Warsaw University Press, 149-160.

C. Kleinitz, T. Bauer & C. Näser, Optische 3D-Messungen zur digitalen Bestandsdokumentation von dekorierten Bauelementen und Sekundärbildern der Großen Anlage von Musawwarat es Sufra: ein Pilotprojekt. Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin 20, 33-48.

C. Kleinitz, Meroitic ‚property marks’ in Fourth Nile Cataract rock art? A re-evaluation of an enigmatic class of graphic markings. In: B.J.J. Haring & O.E. Kaper (eds.), Pictograms or Pseudo Script? Non-textual Identity Marks in Practical Use in Ancient Egypt and Elsewhere. Egyptologische Uitgaven XXV. Leiden: NINO, 179-198.

C. Kleinitz, Neue Arbeiten zu den Sekundärbildern der Grossen Anlage von Musawwarat es Sufra. Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin 19, 27-38.

C. Kleinitz, Rock art on Us island: a window into past life-worlds at the Fourth Cataract. In: B. Gratien (ed.), Actes de la 4e Conférence Internationale sur l’Archéologie de la 4e Cataracte du Nil. Villeneuve d’Ascq, 22 et 23 Juin 2007. Lille: Université Charles-de-Gaulle, 85-107.

2008

C. Kleinitz, Soundscapes of the Nile valley: ‘Rock music’ in the Fourth Cataract region. In: A.A. Both, Eichmann, R., Hickmann, E. & L. Koch (eds.), Studies in Music Archaeology VI. Challenges and Aims in Music Archaeology. Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 131-146.

2007

C. Kleinitz, Rock art and archaeology: the Hadiab Survey. Sudan & Nubia 11, 34-42.

C. Kleinitz, Magisch-religiöse Zeichen der meroitischen und postmeroitischen Epochen in Nubien. Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin 18, 99-113.

C. Kleinitz, Felskunst im Fluss: Die Bilderwelt der Insel Us am Vierten Nilkatarakt. Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin 18, 51-75.

2007

C. Kleinitz, Rock art landscapes of the Fourth Nile Cataract: characterisations and first comparisons. In: C. Näser & M. Lange (eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Archaeology of the Fourth Nile Cataract. Berlin, 4-6 August 2005. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 213-234.

2007

C. Kleinitz, For whom the bell tolls: rescue recording of petroglyphs and rock gongs in the Merowe Dam reservoir area of the Fourth Nile Cataract (Sudan). In: J. Deacon (ed.), African Rock Art: The Future of Africa's Past. Nairobi: Trust for African Rock Art, 86-94.

2006

Kleinitz, C. & R. Koenitz, Fourth Cataract petroglyphs in context. The Ed-Doma and Dirbi Island rock art survey. Sudan & Nubia 10, 34-42.

2005

C. Kleinitz & C. Olsson, Christian period rock art landscapes in the Fourth Nile Cataract region: the Dar el-Arab and et-Tereif rock art surveys. Sudan & Nubia 9, 31-38.

2005

C. Kleinitz, Rock art: West and Central Africa, in: K. Shillington (ed.), Encyclopedia of African History. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn.

2004

C. Kleinitz, Rock art and 'rock gongs' in the Fourth Nile Cataract region: the Ishashi island rock art survey. Sudan & Nubia 8, 12-17.

2004

C. Kleinitz & B. Dietz, Art rupestre au pays Dogon: L'auvent de Songo. In: R.M.A. Bedaux & J.D. van der Waals (eds.), Regards sur les Dogon du Mali. Leiden (Exhibition Catalogue Musée National du Mali and Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden). Gand: Editions Snoeck, 138-145.

2003

C. Kleinitz & B. Dietz, Times of the signs - signs of the times. Rock art and circumcision among the Dogon of Songo, Bandiagara plateau, Mali. Leiden: Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde)

2001

C. Kleinitz, Rock art in sub-Saharan Mali. Antiquity 75, 799-800.

2000

C. Kleinitz, Tracing a West African Past: Rock art recording in sub-Saharan Mali. Papers from the Institute of Archaeology 11, 85-88.