MINERVA

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.

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Sekgele sa tiro
Motsheganong 2019 – Moranang 2021

Motlhotlhomisi o mogolwane
Dr. Michaela Ecker

Badirimmogo ba bagolo

  • David Morris, McGregor Museum Kimberley and Sol Plaatje University Kimberley, South Africa & Co-permit holder
  • Lloyd Rossouw, National Museum Bloemfontein, South Africa
  • Chris Green, University of Oxford, UK
  • Hilary Duke & Michael Chazan, University of Toronto, Canada
  • Marine Frouin, Stony Brook University, USA
  • Dominic Stratford & Kelita Shadrach, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
  • Cheryl Makarewicz & Nils Andersen, University of Kiel, Germany

Funding

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 (2014-2020) under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 837730: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/837730

Dikgatiso

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

Ecker, M., Morris, D. 2023. Pniel 1 and 6, South Africa. In: Beyin, A., Bouzouggar, A., Olszewski, D., Wilkins, J., Wright, D. (eds.), Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa: Hominin Behavior, Geography, and Chronology. Springer.

Ecker, M., Bank. C.-G., Chazan, M., Chen, Y., Green, G., Morris, D., Stoikopoulos, N., Shadrach, K., Stratford, D., Duke, H., Revisiting Pniel 6: the 2017-2019 excavations. South African Archaeological Bulletin 76(214), 57-69.

Ecker, M. 2019, Pniel 6. Excursion guidebook, Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists Meeting, Kimberley.

Ecker, M. 2018, Renewed survey and excavations at Pniel, South Africa. Quaternary Newsletter 146, 32-34.

Ecker, M. 2017, Evolution and the Environment: The First Season of Excavations at Pniel, South Africa. Archaeological Institute of America Toronto Society Newsletter Fall 2017.