The "Eastern Trajectory": Last Glacial Palaeogeography and Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean and of the Balkan Peninsula (B01)

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

Project B1 is following the "Eastern Trajectory" of the Out-of-Africa 2 migration from Africa into western Eurasia. Geo-archaeological fieldwork has been carried out in selected key areas across the region aiming to better understand the archaeological, palaeoenvironmenal and palaeoclimatic evolution of the last ca. 50 ka. Next to the completion of ongoing fieldwork during the next CRC-806 phase, the focus will be on correlating past human occurrences in the study area with palaeogeographic determinants (precipitation, altitude, etc.) and its spatial distribution This will be done in close collaboration with the D1 project reconstructing past conditions that allowed Homo sapiens to further disperse into 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: Dr. Thomas Hauck; Professor Dr. Frank Lehmkuhl; Professor Dr. Jürgen Richter