Meet the team

Team members

Dr Michaela Ecker

Leader
Emmy Noether Group
Kiel University

Inèz Faul

PhD student
Kiel University

Dr Chris Green

DFG Mercator Fellow
University of Oxford

Rowena Winterhalder

PhD Student
Kiel University

Dr Lloyd Russouw

University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Dr Stefan Dreibrodt

State Office for Monument Preservation Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Dr Elena Amelie
Hensel-Karamalakidou

Research Assistant Institute for Ecosystem Research
Kiel University


Dr Sallie Burrough

Trapnell Fellow of African Environments
Co-Director Oxford Luminescence Dating Laborator
University of Oxford


Dr Kirsty Penkman

Professor in Analytical Chemistry
University of York
PI Wisdom Teeth project

Dr Marc Dickinson

Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of York

Abenicia Henderson

Head of Archaeology McGregor Museum Kimberley 8301

  • Dr Cheryl Makarewicz – Professor for Archaeozoology and Isotope Research,
    Kiel University
  • Dr David Morris – Research Associate, McGregor Museum & Extraordinary Professor, Sol Plaatje University Kimberley, South Africa
  • Dr Marine Frouin – Department of Geosciences & Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University
  • Dr Nils Andersen – Leibniz Laboratory for Radiometric Dating and Stable Isotope Research, Kiel University
  • Phillip Segadika – Curator of Archaeology & Monuments, National Museum of Botswana
  • Dr Ralph Schneider – Professor for Geology-Palaeontology Marine Palaeoclimate, Kiel University
  • Dr Sarah Mothulatshipi – University of Botswana
  • Taylor Grandfield – PhD Student, Stony Brook University
  • Alicia Thomsen – Project Student Assistant, Masters Student

Former team members

  • Daniela Engelhart – Project Student Assistant, Bachelors Student
  • Esther Renken – Project Student Assistant, Bachelors Student
  • Helena Pribliczki – Project Student Assistant, Masters Student
  • Laura Brügmann – Project Student Assistant, Bachelors Student
  • Sophia Politt – Masters Student