Out of Africa - Late Pleistocene Rock Shelter Stratigraphies and Palaeoenvironments in Northeast Africa (A01)

• Subject Area: Physical Geography ; Prehistory and World Archaeology
• Term: from 2009 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 57444011

Project A1 focuses on two African macro-regions, Ethiopia and Egypt. During the last years geoarchaeological investigations at two sites (Mochena Borago in Ethiopia and Sodmein Cave in Egypt) had been at the forefront of the project. In contrast, the research aims for the currently proposed phase concentrate on a comprehensive understanding of past environments and population dynamics on a regional scale by integrating data from various archaeological sites and palaeoenvironmental archives. This will be done in close collaboration particularly with subprojects A3, F6 and Z2.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 806: Our Way to Europe: Culture-Environment Interaction and Human Mobility in the Late Quaternary
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Olaf Bubenzer, until 8/2017; Dr. Karin Kindermann; Professor Dr. Jürgen Richter, until 6/2017; Dr. Ralf Vogelsang