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Archaeology and Colonialism. A comment.
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- 22 June 2020
In the past Europeans travelled to the colonies in Africa and extracted resources. Among the resources were artefacts that were part of the heritage of many different regions in Africa. By... -
Workshop on Geometric Morphometrics for Archaeologists
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- 23 December 2019
On the 12th and 13th of October 2019 Dr Christian Hoggard (Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton) gave an introduction into “Geometric Morphometrics for Archaeologists”. Geometric... -
Brand new results from Southwest Ethiopian Highlands
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- 14 November 2019
A new research entitled “Combining geomorphological-hydrological analyses and the location of settlement and raw material sites – a case study on understanding prehistoric human settlement activity... -
First insights into Ethiopian paleoenvironment: Poster presentation of the project A1 at the EGU General Assembly 2019
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- 13 May 2019
Since 2005, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) has held their annual General Assembly at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV). Once again, members of the CRC 806 attended at this year’s General... -
Dendi Lake Rock Shelter – Holocene Hunter-Gatherers in the Afromontane Forest
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- 28 January 2019
In 2011 the CRC 806 – Our Way to Europe (A3 and A1) started to investigate Mount Dendi (3270 m a.s.l.) in Ethiopia. The 2012 excavations were directed by Ralf Vogelsang. They started in the Dendi... -
Geoarchaeological fieldwork in the Highlands - Sodicho Rockshelter
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- 07 January 2019
The interdisciplinary research team of archaeologists and geoarchaeologists from the A1 project have successfully continued their fieldwork at the Sodicho Rockshelter (SW Ethiopia) in November 2018... -
CRC 806 at the AFQUA-Conference 2018, Nairobi
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- 18 August 2018
The 2nd AFQUA-Conference was held in Nairobi (Kenya), bringing together Quaternary Scientists working in Africa on a wide range of topics including paleoenvironments, paleoecology and archaeology. Two talks... -
Collaborative fieldwork around Wadi Sodmein, Egypt: geomorphology, sedimentology, and geochronology in the Eastern Desert
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- 20 March 2018
Members of the A1 and F2 projects have carried out a field campaign (March, 2018) in the proximity of Wadi Sodmein in the Eastern Desert, Egypt. The team consisted of a diverse group of experts in... -
Playas, palaeosoils and speleothems: Dating Pleistocene archives with geo-archaeological methods
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- 23 January 2018
At the end of last year – November/December 2017 – a geo-archaeological field campaign was carried out in the surroundings of Sodmein Cave (Eastern Desert, Egypt). Different Quaternary archives were... -
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,... -
Excavation at the Sodicho Rockshelter (Southwest Ethiopia)
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- 07 December 2017
Sodicho Rockshelter, a Holocene and late Pleistocene site in the southwestern Ethiopian Highlands, was visited in October/November 2017 by an interdisciplinary research team of archaeologists and... -
What Pasts for Africa? CRC members at the 2016 SAfA meeting in Toulouse
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- 27 September 2016
From 26th of June to 2nd of July of 2016, several members of the CRC 806 attended the 23rd Biennial meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA). This time, the conference took place... -
Interlinking the cultural with the natural environment – an example from the Djebel Duwi area (Eastern Desert, Egypt)
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- 04 May 2016
Developments in landscape studies in the past decades have allowed scholars to successfully bridge the cultural and natural sciences and to also better understand how humans and the environment are... -
International Science Meeting “Inside – Outside” in Cologne
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- 19 April 2016
The scientific challenge of integrating cave and open-air archives was the subject of the International Science Meeting “Inside – Outside” held from 6th to 9th of April 2016 (organized by the... -
Dr. Mohamed Youssef – A guest researcher from Egypt helps in deciphering palaeohydrology
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- 19 January 2016
As part of the ongoing research in the Egyptian Eastern Desert, Project A1 has welcomed Dr. Mohamed Youssef for a two-month guest research stay in November and December 2015. Dr. Youssef is a... -
On the trail of Late Pleistocene surfaces (Eastern Desert, Egypt)
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- 19 February 2015
Several concentrations of Late Pleistocene stone artefacts were documented during archaeological surveys in 2014 in the vicinity of Sodmein Cave. These open-air sites were preferentially registered... -
A view off from Mochena Borago: Investigation of Quaternary environmental archives in southwestern Ethiopian Highlands
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- 13 January 2015
Mochena Borago's depositional history has to be linked with regional environmental archives to figure out the local and regional climate and morphological impacts on rockshelter deposits evolution... -
Geomorphological investigations at Mochena Borago rock shelter, Ethiopia
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- 09 July 2014
During the last decade archaeological analyses helped to gain insight into the history of settlement of the rock shelter in the last 50 ka. Element and micromorphological analyses as well as... -
Micromorphology at Sodmein Cave – looking at the lowest level of site formation processes
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- 14 January 2014
First micromorphological investigations at Sodmein Cave were started and four pilot thin sections from the sequence are in process. Sodmein is located in the Eastern Desert of Egypt and contains... -
Geo-archaeological research on the Late Pleistocene of the Egyptian Eastern Desert: recent threats to the Sodmein Cave
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- 14 November 2013
The amount of stratigraphic and secure dating evidence from Late Pleistocene archaeological sites of north-eastern Africa is limited and well-dated Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites remain a desideratum... -
When humans conquered high mountains
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- 24 January 2013
Generally speaking, the colonization of high-altitude regions is considered a relatively recent development, not least as alpine habitats are usually considered unfavourable for human occupation. Consequently, only... -
Reconstructing palaeoenvironments
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- 18 January 2013
In order to identify older wadi terraces and tectonic displacements in the surroundings of Sodmein Cave/Egypt, several DGPS measurements and laserscans (Dirk Hoffmeister, project Z2) were conducted... -
A more than 53,000 year old archaeological assemblage at Mochena Borago Rockshelter, SW Ethiopia
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- 23 April 2012
Excavations at Mochena Borago Rockshelter continued during February/March 2012. Previous work had shown this site to contain deep deposits that still remained to be excavated. Therefore, the main... -
Refitting and technological analysis
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- 15 February 2012
Although the refitting of stone artefacts is a rather time consuming aspect of archaeological research it provides some very important information regarding such things as archaeological site... -
Excavation at Moche Borago rock shelter continues
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- 27 May 2011
A combined team of archaeologists and other specialists from the University of Cologne, the University of Florida, the Ethiopian Authority for Research and Conservation of the Cultural Heritage and... -
Geo-archaeological research at Sodmein Cave revisited
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- 27 May 2011
Sodmein Cave in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, with its more than 4 m of stratified human occupation debris, was revisited in autumn 2010 by a joint research team of archaeologists and geographers from the...