Transitions of Specialised Foragers (c. 9500–5000 BCE) (B02)

• Subject Area: Prehistory and World Archaeology
• Term: from 2016 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 290391021

Project B2 analyses transformation phenomena during the Mesolithic. In Phase 2, it shifts its focus to new regions (Rhinluch region, Brandenburg) in order to gain more general insights into Mesolithic landscape exploitation from a diachronic cultural perspective (technological transformations), as well as against the background of environmental dynamics. The results of Phase 1 enlarged significantly the empirical data basis and improved explanatory models of Mesolithic socio-cultural transformations. Based on this, the chronologies of supra-regional transformation processes, their possible drivers, patterns of their distribution, and the role of the environment, will be further investigated.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1266: Human-environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies
• Applicant Institution: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
• Co-Applicant Institution: Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf; Zentrum für Baltische und Skandinavische Archäologie (ZBSA)
• Project Heads: Dr. Sönke Hartz, until 6/2020; Dr. Harald Luebke; Dr. John Meadows, until 6/2020; Privatdozent Dr. Ulrich Schmölcke