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More than just a map – new insights on the distribution of loess in Europe
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- 29 January 2021
Maps are the most common way to visualise spatial data in an easily understandable way. Therefore, they are still used today as a powerful tool in, e.g., Quaternary sciences and archaeology. The... -
Archaeology and Social Networks
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- 25 June 2020
The diffusion of knowledge is a pivotal task in the modern world, especially for archaeologists that are working at the front line of heritage reconstruction. In the last years, projects of the... -
What’s your name? Reflections on naming and a possible way out
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- 03 April 2020
We love names. Names are the ultimate tool for organising our world in known entities, and archaeology does not make exception to that. In Palaeolithic Archaeology, French scholars have been the... -
Pointing westwards: analysing Grotta di Fumane lithics
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- 15 October 2019
With its ≈12 m of archaeological deposit encompassing 80 k years, Grotta di Fumane (Veneto, Italy) has a central role in Eurasian prehistory. Particularly, it is one of the few sites bearing witness... -
Investigating bladelet-making at Româneşti-Dumbrăviţa
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- 07 May 2019
The origins of the Upper Palaeolithic are still an open question in Palaeolithic archaeology. In 2003 and 2005, H. sapiens fossils were found at the site Peştera cu Oase (SW Romania). They belong to... -
Stones (sometimes) do talk: understanding past life through lithic artefacts
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- 22 January 2019
Stone tools have been used from 3 million years up to the Bronze Age. They are by far the most abundant prehistoric findings. Hence, they are pivotal in the narration of early human history. Lithic... -
Embodying interdisciplinary research at best: a brief overlook of the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018 and Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques Congress 2018
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- 12 June 2018
The PhD candidate Jacopo Gennai attended two international scientific meetings to present his research and acquire better insight in the scientific debate: here a brief report of the two... -
The 6th annual meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE) in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, 14–18 September, 2016
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- 26 September 2016
On the 13th of September 2016, Ine Léonard, PhD candidate for the B1 project, travelled to the World Heritage city of Alcalá de Henares near Madrid to attend the 6th annual meeting of the European... -
The estimation of geochemical provenance areas for the early Upper Palaeolithic of the Banat (SW-Romania)
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- 20 April 2016
Far too often does country- or language-specific nomenclature impede the estimation of the past lithic raw material economy. Sadly, the early Upper Palaeolithic raw material record of the open-air... -
A week in stormy Aberystwyth discussing luminescence
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- 02 December 2015
This November, PhD student Janina Bösken travelled to the University of Aberystwyth in faraway Wales to attend a workshop about everything there is to know about luminescence dating. The main focus... -
Making sense of “Banat flint”. A re-evaluation of the raw materials at the early Upper Palaeolithic open-air sites of the Banat (SW-Romania)
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- 30 September 2015
The early Upper Palaeolithic raw material records of the Banat are dominated by a rock often referred to as “Banat flint” – what’s in a name. In addition, a small number of other raw material... -
From Jordan into Israel 2015
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- 29 September 2015
At the end of this year’s Jordan campaign, Hannah Parow-Souchon, PhD student of project B1, continued to Israel for additional three weeks of study. The goal of this trip was to see as many... -
Into Jordan 2015
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- 28 September 2015
A joined team of project B1 members of the CRC 806 and the University of Amman executed an excavation campaign at the site of Al-Ansab in the greater Petra area. Students from Cologne and Amman... -
Looking for dust in Serbia - part II - luminescence at At
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- 03 June 2015
A year after our last trip, the B1-geo-team from the RWTH Aachen spent another week in Serbia to continue their investigations at the archaeological site At. This time, geophysical methods were... -
A technological analysis of recently excavated archaeological assemblages of the open-air localities of the Banat (SW-Romania)
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- 15 April 2015
During the past month of February, Ine Leonard from B1 project travelled to the town of Tărgovisţe in Romania, 80 km northwest of Bucaresţi, with one primary goal: to see the archaeological material... -
Raw material survey in Berlin
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- 31 March 2015
Renewing the cooperation with the Freie Universität Berlin, Hannah Parow-Souchon of Project B1 met Christoph Purschwitz at Berlin to discuss raw material issues of the Jordanian Greater Petra... -
The 7th Loess Seminar – Kukla Loessfest ‘14
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- 16 December 2014
The 7th loess seminar LOESSFEST held in memory of one of the greatest loess researchers, namely Georg J. Kukla, took place from 8–15 September in Poland. The international conference was placed in... -
2nd International Workshop on Late Pleistocene and Holocene climate variability in the Carpathian-Balkan region
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- 03 December 2014
The 2nd International Workshop on Late Pleistocene and Holocene climate variability in the Carpathian-Balkan region took place on 6th and 7th November in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Many scientists from... -
Six weeks looking for dust in Hungary, Serbia and Romania
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- 18 June 2014
This spring from 5th April – 17th May geoscientists from the RWTH Aachen University and archaeologists from the University of Cologne, both of the CRC 806 B1 project, undertook fieldwork in Hungary,... -
Between trash and trove. Archaeological research in northeast Serbia
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- 22 May 2014
This spring the archaeologists of the University of Cologne and geoscientist from the RWTH Aachen University of the CRC 806 B1 project travelled to the town of Vršac in Northeastern Serbia. The aim... -
Settlement dynamics at the edge of the Pleistocene in the Near East: Revisiting the site of Taybeh, southern Jordan
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- 19 December 2013
During this year's short field campaign, one day was dedicated to revisiting the site of Taybeh 3 near the small village of Taybet Zaman in the greater Petra region. The site was excavated in 2010... -
Oase Rock-Shelter (Romania): First evidence for human occupation during the Pleistocene
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- 07 October 2013
In its second year of archaeological research around the Oase Cave complex (Caraş-Severin, Romania), the German-Romanian excavation team at last discovered traces of human occupation during the Late... -
Resolving sedimentary deposits in the Azraq Basin/Jordan using non-invasive geophysical techniques
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- 07 January 2013
A second geophysical field survey was undertaken in the Azraq Basin in October 2012. -
A workshop through the Last Glacial environment and archaeology of the Levante and the Balkans
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- 19 December 2012
Between 25th and 28th of November 2012, the RWTH Aachen University was host to 65 experts from 16 countries for a workshop entitled "Last Glacial palaeogeography and archaeology of the Eastern... -
Entering Caves – Archaeological fieldwork starts in Albania
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- 28 August 2012
The territory of Albania is centered directly within the "Eastern Trajectory" of modern human migrations before, during and after the late glacial maximum. For this reason, the Cologne CRC 806... -
Exploring the subsurface – Geophysics in the Azraq Basin, Northern Jordan
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- 23 January 2012
Non-invasive surface geophysical techniques are a useful tool to investigate the earth’s subsurface structure. In order to identify suitable locations for future drilling projects, the Qa Al’ Azraq... -
Geophysics and handaxes in Northern Jordan
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- 27 May 2011
Spring of 2011 saw scientists from project B1 (F. Lehmkuhl, J. Richter, R. Löhrer, J. Protze) visiting northern Jordan to survey terrestrial sediment sections along the eastern slopes of the Jordan... -
Banat open-air sites with Early Upper Palaeolithic stone artefacts
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- 27 May 2011
This year’s fieldwork in Romania (April - May) followed a twofold strategy: the analysis of Upper Palaeolithic stone artefact collections, as well as extended archaeological surveys in different,...