Diporojeke di le mmalwa tsa mo nakong e e fetileng di ile tsa nna le matswela a a molemo malebana le batho ba motlha wa Pleistocene le tikologo e ba neng ba nna mo go yone. Maitlhomo a diporojeke le diphelelo tsa tsone di bontsha kafa dithuto tseno di leng botlhokwa ka teng.
Mid-Pleistocene environments of the lower Vaal river (MINERVA), Marie Sklodowska-Curie Project
2019 – 2021
Tiro ya Marie Sklodowska-Curie ya ‘Mid-Pleistocene environments of the lower Vaal River‘ (MINERVA) e batlisisa ka fa batho ba bogologolo ba ba bidiwang Homo sapiens ba itshetsang ka teng fa tikologo e ntse e fetoga le gore ba tsoma jang mo sekakeng sa Afrika borwa ba irisa tshedimosetso ya isotopic, zooarchaeological, geomorphological le tshedimosetso tsa lithic tsedi bonweng mo mabiteng kwa Pniel, le go e tshwantshanya le mafelo a a tshwanang le one mo kgaolong eo.
Modelling of climatic drivers in the summer rainfall zone of southern Africa during the Mid-Pleistocene
2016 – 2020
Tiro e, re e tshwaraganetse mmogo le ba Hiromitsu Sato (University Toronto, Canada), Douglas Kelley (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK), re irisa tepo ya loapi go batlisisa dintlha tse di irang gore go nne le dikai tse re di bonang mo ditshedimosetsong tsa paleoenvironment.
Maduo
Ecker, M., Kelley, D. & Sato, H. Modelling the effects of CO2 on C3 and C4 grass competition during the mid-Pleistocene transition in South Africa. Sci Rep 10, 16234 (2020). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72614-2
Dipatlisiso kwa Pniel, Lower Vaal River, Afrika Borwa
2017 – 2019
Motlhotlhomisi o mogolwane
Michaela Ecker & David Morris (McGregor Museum).
Dithuso ka madi
Quaternary Research Association (QRA) Quaternary Research Fund; Rust Family Foundation & The Palaeontological Scientific Trust (PAST), Johannesburg, Afrika Borwa.
Maduo
Ecker, M., Bank. C.-G., Chazan, M., Chen, Y., Green, G., Morris, D., Stoikopoulos, N., Shadrach, K., Stratford, D., Duke, H. 2021, Revisiting Pniel 6: the 2017-2019 excavations. South African Archaeological Bulletin 76(214), 57-69.
Dikgapa tsa mae a bo Mantshe: go bolokiwa, go balwa ga dingwaga le go tlhatlhobiwa ga tikologo
Dikgapa tsa mae a bo Mmantshwe di tletsetletse mo mafelong a bogologolo mo Borwa jwa Aforika. Go motlhofo go di lemoga ebile di irisiwa go sekaseka tikologo ya bogologolo le go supa nako ya tshimologo ya tikologo eo.
Maduo
Demarchi et al. 2016 in eLife. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.17092
Project lead by Julia Lee-Thorp (University of Oxford) and Kirsty Penkman (University of York) on amino acid dating and protein diagenesis of ostrich eggshell.
Ecker et al. 2015 in Palaeoecology of Africa. PDF
Kgalagadi Human Origins 