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Constructed realities
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- 07 October 2020
Since Babylonian times humans are known to capture the world they are living in by means of maps. We draw and retain maps every day, mentally, for ourselves. They play an immense role in the way we... -
Where were they living?
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- 19 November 2019
My PhD is about the reconstruction of Upper Palaeolithic living environments. The GEOPAL project aims to investigate which kind of surroundings our ancestors preferred roughly between 40.000 and... -
Soil, Soil, Soil: it’s all about Soil – being on the German Soil Society Conference during the International Year of Soils 2015
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- 15 December 2015
In September 2015, the conference of the German Soil Society took place in Munich. Soil, soil, soil: it’s all about soil. The days before and after the conference, several field trips were offered... -
Geography 101 or what some people call dirt, we call our precious!
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- 09 December 2015
In March 2015, we went on a field campaign in the Kraichgau (Germany) to explore new loess-paleosol-sequences. With us (Bernhard Buhs, Eileen Eckmeier, Thomas Hauck, Arne Kappenberg, Lydia Krauss,... -
My dear Paleosol
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- 25 September 2014
On 18th June 2014, three brave PhD students from the RWTH Aachen University, part of the CRC 806 B1 and D1 projects, left Aachen for five days. Their destination: Wurzburg, Bavaria, or to be... -
Where the witches are, there is also loess!
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- 24 September 2014
Just to let you know ahead, we haven't seen one, I think. No yeah, I am positive, no witches passed our way. The reason why I started talking about witches? Wait, I'll explain. Right in the centre... -
Workshop of projects D1 and E1
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- 18 April 2012
“The Upper-Late Palaeolithic Transition in Western Central Europe.Typology, Technology, Environment and Demography” 21st–24th June 2012 in Rösrath near Cologne -
Earth resistivity model and drill core
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- 27 May 2011
In order to reconstruct the environmental conditions and to set up a reliable chronostratigraphical frame for the time slice 40,000 to 14,000 years BP, geoscientific field work in the first phase of... -
Enlargement of the Upper Palaeolithic settlement database
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- 27 May 2011
Geoarchaeological fieldwork undertaken within the frame of our project D1 has its geographical focus on landscapes in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia.