Sodmein Cave in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, with its more than 4 m of stratified human occupation debris, was revisited in autumn 2010...
A combined team of archaeologists and other specialists from the University of Cologne, the University of Florida, the Ethiopian A...
Although the refitting of stone artefacts is a rather time consuming aspect of archaeological research it provides some very impor...
Excavations at Mochena Borago Rockshelter continued during February/March 2012. Previous work had shown this site to contain deep...
In order to identify older wadi terraces and tectonic displacements in the surroundings of Sodmein Cave/Egypt, several DGPS measur...
Generally speaking, the colonization of high-altitude regions is considered a relatively recent development, not least as alpine h...
The amount of stratigraphic and secure dating evidence from Late Pleistocene archaeological sites of north-eastern Africa is limit...
First micromorphological investigations at Sodmein Cave were started and four pilot thin sections from the sequence are in process...
During the last decade archaeological analyses helped to gain insight into the history of settlement of the rock shelter in the la...
Mochena Borago's depositional history has to be linked with regional environmental archives to figure out the local and regional c...
Several concentrations of Late Pleistocene stone artefacts were documented during archaeological surveys in 2014 in the vicinity o...
As part of the ongoing research in the Egyptian Eastern Desert, Project A1 has welcomed Dr. Mohamed Youssef for a two-month guest...
The scientific challenge of integrating cave and open-air archives was the subject of the International Science Meeting “Inside –...
Developments in landscape studies in the past decades have allowed scholars to successfully bridge the cultural and natural scienc...
From 26th of June to 2nd of July of 2016, several members of the CRC 806 attended the 23rd Biennial meeting of the Society of Afri...
Sodicho Rockshelter, a Holocene and late Pleistocene site in the southwestern Ethiopian Highlands, was visited in October/November...
During this year’s „Day of Research“ (November 19th, 2017) in the Neanderthal Museum at Mettmann, scientists of the A- and C-Clust...
At the end of last year – November/December 2017 – a geo-archaeological field campaign was carried out in the surroundings of Sodm...
Members of the A1 and F2 projects have carried out a field campaign (March, 2018) in the proximity of Wadi Sodmein in the Eastern...
The 2nd AFQUA-Conference was held in Nairobi (Kenya), bringing together Quaternary Scientists working in Africa on a wide range of...
The interdisciplinary research team of archaeologists and geoarchaeologists from the A1 project have successfully continued their...
In 2011 the CRC 806 – Our Way to Europe (A3 and A1) started to investigate Mount Dendi (3270 m a.s.l.) in Ethiopia. The 2012 excav...
Since 2005, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) has held their annual General Assembly at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV). Once a...
A new research entitled “Combining geomorphological-hydrological analyses and the location of settlement and raw material sites –...
On the 12th and 13th of October 2019 Dr Christian Hoggard (Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton) gave an introduct...
In the past Europeans travelled to the colonies in Africa and extracted resources. Among the resources were artefacts that were pa...