Population dynamics: Land use patterns of populations between the Upper Pleistocene and Middle Holocene in Europe and the Middle East (E01)

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

The Project E1 analyses large-scale prehistoric population dynamics and migration processes within the CRC 806 working area. Identifying driving forces and examining the formation of large-scale distribution patterns are essential to an enhanced understanding of these dynamics on a continental scale. Diachronic comparisons of demographic estimates from Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers to Neolithic farmers will be at the centre of E1’s research. The influence of demography and mobility on the resilience of populations and archaeologically defined areas of cultural tradition will be investigated.

• 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: Professorin Dr. Silviane Scharl, since 7/2017; Professor Dr. Andreas Zimmermann