Spring of 2011 saw scientists from project B1 (F. Lehmkuhl, J. Richter, R. Löhrer, J. Protze) visiting northern Jordan to survey t...
This year’s fieldwork in Romania (April - May) followed a twofold strategy: the analysis of Upper Palaeolithic stone artefact coll...
Non-invasive surface geophysical techniques are a useful tool to investigate the earth’s subsurface structure. In order to identif...
The territory of Albania is centered directly within the "Eastern Trajectory" of modern human migrations before, during and after...
Between 25th and 28th of November 2012, the RWTH Aachen University was host to 65 experts from 16 countries for a workshop entitle...
A second geophysical field survey was undertaken in the Azraq Basin in October 2012.
In its second year of archaeological research around the Oase Cave complex (Caraş-Severin, Romania), the German-Romanian excavatio...
During this year's short field campaign, one day was dedicated to revisiting the site of Taybeh 3 near the small village of Taybet...
This spring the archaeologists of the University of Cologne and geoscientist from the RWTH Aachen University of the CRC 806 B1 pro...
This spring from 5th April – 17th May geoscientists from the RWTH Aachen University and archaeologists from the University of Colo...
The 2nd International Workshop on Late Pleistocene and Holocene climate variability in the Carpathian-Balkan region took place on...
The 7th loess seminar LOESSFEST held in memory of one of the greatest loess researchers, namely Georg J. Kukla, took place from 8–...
Renewing the cooperation with the Freie Universität Berlin, Hannah Parow-Souchon of Project B1 met Christoph Purschwitz at Berlin...
During the past month of February, Ine Leonard from B1 project travelled to the town of Tărgovisţe in Romania, 80 km northwest of...
A year after our last trip, the B1-geo-team from the RWTH Aachen spent another week in Serbia to continue their investigations at...
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-A...
At the end of this year’s Jordan campaign, Hannah Parow-Souchon, PhD student of project B1, continued to Israel for additional thr...
The early Upper Palaeolithic raw material records of the Banat are dominated by a rock often referred to as “Banat flint” – what’s...
This November, PhD student Janina Bösken travelled to the University of Aberystwyth in faraway Wales to attend a workshop about ev...
Far too often does country- or language-specific nomenclature impede the estimation of the past lithic raw material economy. Sadly...
On the 13th of September 2016, Ine Léonard, PhD candidate for the B1 project, travelled to the World Heritage city of Alcalá de He...
The PhD candidate Jacopo Gennai attended two international scientific meetings to present his research and acquire better insight...
Stone tools have been used from 3 million years up to the Bronze Age. They are by far the most abundant prehistoric findings. Henc...
The origins of the Upper Palaeolithic are still an open question in Palaeolithic archaeology. In 2003 and 2005, H. sapiens fossils...
With its ≈12 m of archaeological deposit encompassing 80 k years, Grotta di Fumane (Veneto, Italy) has a central role in Eurasian...
We love names. Names are the ultimate tool for organising our world in known entities, and archaeology does not make exception to...
The diffusion of knowledge is a pivotal task in the modern world, especially for archaeologists that are working at the front line...
Maps are the most common way to visualise spatial data in an easily understandable way. Therefore, they are still used today as a...