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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
View our new blogpost about the KHO Workshop in July here.
From 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.
View the post of the German Embassy in Botswana about our visit in September 2025 on Instagram or Facebook.
New Papers
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, 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
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