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Rabat 2016. Workshop and lithic analysis
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- 26 October 2016
On October 20, 2016 the Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine (INSAP) of Rabat (Morocco) organized a one-day workshop on the use of innovative techniques for the analysis... -
Quels passés pour l’Afrique? SAfA meeting 2016
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- 29 September 2016
Since the 1970s, the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) holds a biennial conference dedicated to African archaeology and related research topics. The meetings alternate between Europe and... -
“La 8ème Rencontre des Quaternaristes Marocains” (RQM8) in Nador (Morocco)
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- 08 December 2015
In November 2015, Melanie Bartz, Alessandro Potì and Martin Kehl of the C2 project attended the 8th conference of Quaternary researchers in the Maghreb region. The conference took place in Nador,... -
Chasing the Sun. From London to Barcelona
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- 23 November 2015
In September 2015, Alessandro Potì and Jörg Linstädter (both from project C2) travelled to London to attend the 5th ESHE meeting (European Society for the Study of Human Evolution), organized in the... -
2015 Excavation at Ifri El Baroud, the Gunpowder’s Cave (NE Morocco)
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- 10 June 2015
Between February and April 2015 the C2 archaeo-team went to Morocco to carry out the excavation of Ifri El Baroud (Eastern Rif). Ifri El Baroud is a reference site for understanding the late Upper... -
Moraine formations and speleothem records in northeastern Morocco
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- 04 February 2015
In August 2014, the C2 members Dr. Gilles Rixhon and Melanie Bartz undertook a second field trip to Morocco with the aim of sampling further palaeoclimate archives, namely glacial formations and... -
Science Day in the Neander Valley
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- 05 January 2015
The Neanderthal Museum at Mettmann near Düsseldorf invited the members of the C-Cluster to the first "Science Day" on November 16th, 2014 and we happily accepted. Our scientists presented different... -
Stones, Pottery, Dust, and Couscous
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- 22 December 2014
From 18th until 22nd of November 2014, two archaeologists of project C2 (Jörg Linstädter and Alessandro Potì, both University of Cologne) went to Rabat, the magnificent capital of Morocco. Main... -
Last excavation campaign at the Epipalaeolithic–Neolithic site of Ifri n’Etsedda, Morocco
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- 12 June 2014
Between February and April 2014, the archaeological team of the C2 project carried out the third and last excavation campaign at the archaeological site of Ifri n'Etsedda (Ouled Daoud, Morocco).The... -
Excavations in Ifri n'Etsedda ("Lions Cave"), NE-Morocco
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- 23 January 2013
The 2012 spring campaign of sub-project C2 was dedicated to the excavation of Ifri n'Etsedda, NE-Morocco. Discovered in 2008, the shelter was already scanned in 2010 by a team from RWTH Aachen using a... -
Geographical on- and off-site studies in the Eastern Rif, NE Morocco
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- 15 January 2013
In the framework of a cooperation with the archaeologists in charge of the Ifri n'Ammar cave excavations (Dr. Josef Eiwanger, Dr. Abdesalam Mikdad), a field trip with geography students of the... -
Determination of snails from the archaeological deposits of Ifri n'Etsedda ("Lions Cave") NE-Morocco
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- 14 January 2013
Museum Koenig, Bonn (07.–09.12.2012) The 2012 spring campaign of sub-project C2 in Ifri n'Etsedda, NE-Morocco yielded an enormous amount of snail shells thought to represent the remains of... -
Micromorphology proves the penning of domesticated sheep and goat in Moroccan Early Neolithic deposits during the middle of the 8th millennium calBP
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- 12 January 2013
The coastal site of Ifri Oudadane is one of the most important sites in the Mediterranean Maghreb. Recent excavations have provided a stratigraphy featuring the transition from Epipalaeolithic... -
Oldest crops in Africa from NE-Morocco
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- 12 January 2013
Oldest crops in Africa from NE-Morocco Our research at coastal sites of NE-Morocco has also included investigations of incipient agriculture in Northern Africa. Since 2010, all sediment excavated... -
Archaeological surveys at the littoral west of the Melilla Peninsula, NE-Morocco, 2011
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- 28 February 2012
The Mediterranean littoral west of the Melilla Peninsula and the mountainous hinterland is a very extensive territory. Archaeological surveys within this inaccessible area are tough and time... -
Archaeological excavations in Ifri Oudadane, NE-Morocco, 2011
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- 10 February 2012
Fieldwork undertaken in 2011 at Ifri Oudadane was – for the time being – the last campaign at this site. Four field seasons (2006, 2007, 2010, 2011) have resulted in the excavation of 12 m2 and the... -
Terrestrial LiDAR Scanning (TLS) in caves of Morocco
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- 27 May 2011
During a field campaign in spring 2010, Terrestrial LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) was used in different limestone caves in northern Morocco to reconstruct cave morphology, geometry and...