About
The Emmy Noether Group ‘Kgalagadi Human Origins’ started in June 2021. The six-year project is researching the impact of the extreme climate changes in the Mid- and late Pleistocene on human evolution in the southern Kalahari basin.
News
- New blogpostView our new blogpost about the KHO Workshop in July 2025 here.
- Attending the German Unity Day celebrationsFrom October 1 to 3, Michaela Ecker was part of the Schleswig-Holstein state delegation attending the German Unity Day celebrations in Saarbrücken. You can find more informations in an article by Kiel University here.
- Visiting the German Embassy in BotswanaView the post of the German Embassy in Botswana about our visit in September 2025 on Instagram or Facebook.
More projects
Multiple research projects across different disciplines focus on Pleistocene Europe and Africa. The interdisciplinary projects grant insights into past interactions between hominins and landscapes with dedicated focal points.
New publications
- Politt et al. (2025)
Politt, S. S., Pribliczki, H., Dickinson, M. R., Andersen, N., Henderson, A., Morris, D., Makarewicz, C. A., Penkmann, K., Ecker, M., Insights into the Middle Pleistocene fauna of South Africa: Zooarchaeology, stable isotopes and dating of Pniel 6. Journal of Quaternary Science (2025). https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.70002
- Faul et al. (2025)
Faul, I., Grandfield, T., Dreibrodt, S., Mothulatshipi, S., Segadika, P., Green, C., Frouin, M., Ecker, M., Dune and Pan sediments from the southern Kalahari basin: A case study from the Kgalagadi district, Botswana. South African Field Archaeology 20 (2025). https://doi.org/10.36615/safa.20.3408.2025
- Ecker et al. (2025)
Ecker, M., Sato, H., Kelley, D. Rekonstruktion des Amazonas-Ökosystems zu letzten Eiszeit. Archäologie in Deutschland 3/2025 (2025), 14-17. See the journal.
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