Settlement Patterns and Climate Change in the Late Pleistocene of the Western Mediterranean – A Synthesis (C01 (C02/C03))

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

The previous C1-C3 projects will be merged into one geo-archaeological project, C1. The new C1 aims to model and reconstruct palaeoenvironments and related human behaviour (land use and mobility) as well as associated population dynamics in the Western Mediterranean during the last 50 ka. The project has a vast data set to its disposal including some 550 archaeological sites and geological archives. The project will focus on three time slices that yielded evidence for significant population turnover (50-40 ka BP, LGM, Holocene). In collaboration with E6, GIS analyses and further modelling approaches will be employed to investigate human-environment interactions and human population turnovers in the past.

• 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. Helmut Brückner, since 7/2017; Professor Dr. Klaus Reicherter; Professor Dr. Gerd-Christian Weniger