Former Projects Northeast Africa - Ways of Dispersal from the Centre of Origin Late Quaternary High-Resolution Climate Archives in the Sahara - completed in 2017 Ethiopian lakes – Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in the source region of modern man - completed in 2017 Eastern Mediterranean and Balkan Peninsula: Primary Corridor to Europe? Climatic and Environmental History of the Balkans During the Last Glacial Cycle - completed in 2017 Climatic Evolution of the Marmara Region during the past 50,000 years - completed in 2013 The Western Mediterranean - Bridge or Barrier? Early Holocene Contacts between Africa and Europe and their Palaeoenvironmental Context - continued within Project C1 Climatic and Environmental Changes in the Upper Pleistocene – Middle Holocene of the Iberian Peninsula - continued within Project C1 Margin and Destination: Case Studies from Late Pleistocene and Holocene Europe The Rise of the Cultural Landscape in Central Europe:Mobility and Human-Environment Interaction since the Neolithic - completed in 2013 Human Impact and Colluvial Sediment Storages in Europe since the Neolithic - completed in 2013 Innovation Transfer as a Possible Trigger of Modern Human Migration - continued within Project D4 Black Carbon in Soils and Sediments as Indicator for Human Environment Interactions in the last 190,000 years - continued as Project E7 Setting the Time Frame: Dates and Markers of Human Dispersal Setting the Time Frame – Application of Cosmogenic Nuclide (Radiocarbon, Beryllium) Datingin the Construction of High-Resolution Archaeological Chronologies - completed in 2013 Black Carbon in Soils as an Indicator for Human-Environment Interactions in the Last 190,000 years - completed in 2013 Climate Change in the Northern and Western Black Sea RegionBased on U-Th isochron Dated Stalagmites from the Crimean Peninsula and Eastern Romania - completed in 2013