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The KHO project will attend this year’s biannual conference of the Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA) from the July 5 to 9 2026. During the session “Beyond the coasts: Pleistocene adaptations to water-scarce landscapes in the Kalahari and surrounding regions”, Inèz Faul and project leader Michaela Ecker will present insights into to project’sContinue reading “KHO at the ASAPA conference 2026”

During the Kieler Woche 2026 – the biggest public festival of Northern Europe – the KHO PhD candidate Rowena Winterhalder will present her research during the annual “Science Show”. Here, Early Career researchers of Kiel University inform the interested public in short and engaging talks about their projects. The talk will be at the “DigitialContinue reading “KHO at the Kieler Woche 2026”

Two 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 present a poster on the KHO site Tswai, Botswana. Find more information on the meeting on the official website.

The KHO project members at Kiel University move across campus into two new office rooms with more space for storing samples and discussing research.

The 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 new EU funded project will strengthen the cooperation between Kiel University and the University of Algarve and establish an innovation centreContinue reading “Involvement in new ‘Teaming for Excellence’ Project of the EU”