Chronology, site concentrations, cultural differentiation, and mobility patterns as basis for comparing human-environment interaction (D04* (D05))

• Subject Area: Prehistory and World Archaeology
• Term: from 2013 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 57444011

Project D4 will focus on the question, as to whether the presence or absence of humans and their behaviour in Central Europe from 15,000 to 4,000 BP can be interpreted as a response to natural or cultural environments by integrating data, methods and results from various former CRC-projects and from literature. The project’s guiding principles, adaptive behavior and human agency, are focused on in order to investigate human-environment interaction employing multi-proxy geo-archaeological data. Close collaboration will be with projects B3, D5, E1 and E6 in order to reach conclusive results on a macro-regional scale.

• 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