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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.
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- KHO at the Geoarchaeology Meeting in FlensburgTwo KHO project members will attend this year’s meeting of the German Geoarchaeology working group in Flensburg. On May 29th, Michaela Ecker will hold a presentation about the KHO project and Elena Hensel-Karamalakidou will presentContinue reading “KHO at the Geoarchaeology Meeting in Flensburg”
- KHO project moves officesThe KHO project members at Kiel University move across campus into two new office rooms with more space for storing samples and discussing research.
- Involvement in new ‘Teaming for Excellence’ Project of the EUThe KHO Project leader Michaela Ecker, together with two companies and coordinated by ICArEHB (University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal) successfully submitted the first proposal in the field of Archaeology for ‘Teaming for Excellence’. The newContinue reading “Involvement in new ‘Teaming for Excellence’ Project of the EU”
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Multiple research projects across different disciplines focus on Pleistocene and Holocene Europe and Africa. The interdisciplinary projects grant insights into past interactions between hominins and landscapes with dedicated focal points.
New publications
- Richard et al. (2026)
Richard, M., Bin, B., Longet, B., Ecker, M., Andersen, N., Archer, W., Gohodzi, M., Holt, S., Bousman, C. B., & Toffolo, M. B., 2026. A Middle Stone Age occupation identified at Baden-Baden in the grasslands of the Free State, South Africa. Scientific Reports, 16(1), 12027. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-43246-9
- Winterhalder et al. (2026)
Winterhalder, R., Green, C., Faul, I., Henderson, A., Mothulatshipi, S., Segadika, P., & Ecker, M., 2026. Connecting survey data with targeted test excavations to understand lithic artefacts in the landscape of the southern Kalahari, Botswana. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 0, 1–39. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2026.2627127
- Politt et al. (2025)
Politt, S.S., Pribliczki, H., Dickinson, M.R., Andersen, N., Henderson, A., Morris, D., Makarewicz, C.A., Penkman, K., Ecker, M., 2025. Insights into the Middle Pleistocene fauna of South Africa: Zooarchaeology, stable isotopes and dating of Pniel 6. Journal of Quaternary Science 40, 1120–1139. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.70002
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