Environmental Response to Climate Events in the Levant, Near East and SE Europe during the last 200 ka based on Long Continental Records (B03)

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

Project B3 focuses on reconstructing past climates and environmental changes in the “Eastern Trajectory”. Its particular aim is a better understanding of the impact of past climate events, e.g. Heinrich events on palaeoenvironments and their implications for human migrations in the study area. By integrating multiproxy data from various palaeoenvironmental archives a synoptic view of past climates (e.g. temperatures & precipitation) and environments (e.g. vegetation) at a resolution of 8-10ka will be modelled. In collaboration with B1, E6 and E7 those results will be correlated with past Homo sapiens presence in the region and migrations between Near East and SE-Europe.

• 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. Andreas N. Hense; Professor Dr. Thomas Litt; Professor Dr. Michael Staubwasser, since 7/2017