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International workshop on Effects of paleoclimatic and catastrophic events since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) on mobility, migration, and landscape evolution.
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- 27 November 2019
On the 13-16th of November, the Museo de Málaga (Spain) hosted an international workshop about Effects of paleoclimatic and catastrophic events since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) on mobility,... -
Excavations in the Cueva Ardales come to a close
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- 12 November 2018
One of the key-sites of our C1-project is the world-famous Cueva Ardales in Andalusia. The site made headlines earlier this year with the discovery of Neanderthal art. Now the C1 team was excited to... -
Meet the scientists - 5th annual Science Day in the Neanderthal Museum
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- 08 November 2018
November 25th, 2018 marks the 5th anniversary of the C-Cluster’s annual Science Day (“Tag der Forschung”) in the Neanderthal Museum: scientists meet with the museum-going public, allowing for lively... -
Presenting our science to the public: CRC 806 at the research day of the Neanderthal Museum
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- 18 December 2017
During this year’s „Day of Research“ (November 19th, 2017) in the Neanderthal Museum at Mettmann, scientists of the A- and C-Cluster presented insights into their current archaeological,... -
International Conference on the Solturean
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- 02 November 2017
The Solutrean, a cultural phase of the Last Glacial Maximum in Europe, constitutes a focus of interdisciplinary research within several projects of the CRC 806. For example, impacts of the decisive... -
Prehistoric rock art and mobile art conference in Santander
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- 28 March 2017
Last year, Viviane Bolin attended the fifth ASP Conference (Art des Sociétées Préhistoriques) at the University of Santander (Cantabria, Spain) from 8th to 12th November 2016. Since 2008, this... -
Mobility of hunter-gatherer groups at the University of the Basque Country. Vitoria 2016
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- 03 November 2016
The 21st of November, María de Andrés-Herrero, PhD candidate in the C1 project, was invited as guest-speaker to participate in the Seminar of Prehistory developed at the University of the Basque... -
Excavation in Andalucia: Deep inside the cave
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- 17 October 2016
In C-Cluster, we cannot get enough of caves. This year, our excavation campaign in Ardales Cave (Málaga, Andalucia) was continued. For five weeks, we entered the dark and wet cave that lies on a... -
Trips to South and East Europe
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- 18 April 2016
From November 24th to December 2nd in 2015, part of the C1-team carried out a second campaign in the Palaeolithic cave Ardales in Malaga (Spain). The objective for this short campaign was to... -
Way down South – Conference and excavation in Spain
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- 22 October 2015
This summer, Viviane Bolin travelled to Spain to attend a conference and to excavate in the frame of CRC 806 project C1. In September 2015, leading specialists in prehistoric rock and mobile art... -
Between darkness and brightness: Preparation of fieldworks in Ardales Cave and Sima de Las Palomas de Teba (Málaga, Spain)
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- 30 March 2015
From 20th until 23rd of January, some members of C1 project, together with Dr. Andreas Pastoors (Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann), went to Spain with the main objective of preparing the next... -
Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition at Cuevas de Los Casares?
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- 16 October 2014
The last week of September 2014, three members of the C1-Project flew to Madrid to support a Spanish team of archaeologists in Los Casares Cave. The cavity lies in the Alto Tajo Natural Park, in... -
Fieldworks in Abrigo del Molino (Segovia, Central Spain)
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- 14 October 2014
Abrigo del Molino is a new Mousterian site in Central Spain discovered in 2012 in the frame of the research project "Primeros Pobladores de Segovia" (First settlers of Segovia) conducted by David... -
A glance at methods – Micromorphology
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- 09 January 2013
Archaeological finds are usually embedded in anthropogenic and natural sediments which accumulated during or after the occupation of caves, rock shelters or open-air sites. The sediment properties... -
Fieldwork in September 2012 – Sampling for luminescence dating and micromorphology
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- 09 January 2013
In autumn 2012, colleagues from the geochronology lab (project F2) and members of the C1-team visited several rock shelter sites in Spain. In cooperation with the working group of João Zilhão... -
Laguna de Fuente de Piedra – Sediment cores from a perennial salt lake in southern Spain for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction
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- 09 January 2013
Fieldwork in Spain in March 2012 saw the drilling of more than 100 metres of sediment cores from small lakes and lagunas in southern Spain by vibra-coring. Our investigations, undertaken in... -
Lake Como - Palaeoenvironmental archive in the Western Mediterranean
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- 16 January 2012
Investigations of a 65 m long sediment core from Lake Como (northern Italy) have recently been initiated in cooperation with Prof. Alessandro Michetti and Elisa Martinelli from the University of... -
Corings in the Zafarraya Polje (Andalucia, Southern Spain)
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- 27 May 2011
The Zafarraya Polje is an endorheic tectonic basin (about 20 km2) located in the external zone of the Betic Cordillera. The nature and age of the basin infill is poorly known. To elucidate the... -
Lake Banyoles - First off-site archive for palaeoclimatic reconstruction on the Iberian Peninsula
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- 27 May 2011
During our field campaign in October 2010 a sediment core was collected from Banyoles Lake, drilled by our colleague Ramon Julià from the Institute of Earth Sciences „Jaume Almera“ (CSIC) in...