Climate Constraints of Western Mediterranean socio-environmental transformation and potential implications for central Europe (F01)

• Subject Area: Palaeontology
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 290391021

Project F1 aims to disentangle complex socio-environmental processes of transformations and the role of abrupt climate change for socio-environmental crises with the 4.2 ka BP event in the western Mediterranean region. Analyses of marine and terrestrial climate archives will be used to reconstruct climatic changes, i.e. precipitation and temperature with quantitative climate proxies. The investigation of material culture through the compilation and analysis of archaeological data guarantees socio-cultural explanatory models. In Phase 2 the study will be widened to the French Mediterranean region and focus on the comparison between areas from both project phases.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1266: Scales of Transformation: Human-environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies
• Applicant Institution: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
• Project Heads: Dr. Jutta Kneisel; Dr. Christoph Rinne; Professor Dr. Ralph Schneider; Privatdozentin Dr. Mara Weinelt