SFB 806 E3: Anthropological Models: A Reconstruction of the First African Frontier
Description:
This project explores anthropological models of hunter-gatherer social dynamics and seeks to relate these models to the theoretical idea of a frontier, which means explaining forms of social organisation as the outcome of a condition of gradual expansion, and conversely this expansion as the result of specific social dynamics. Existing anthropological models for the reconstruction of hunter-gatherer migrations and expansions are synthesised and critically assessed on the basis of (a) new data collected in an ethnographic field research study, (b) cross-cultural comparisons and (c) a simulation component.
Executive Institute:
Institute for Prehistory Details of Institute for Prehistory
Parent institution:
University of Cologne Details of University of Cologne (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Contract period:
01. 01. 2009 - 31. 12. 2009
Collaborative Project:
SFB 806: Our Way to Europe: Culture-Environment Interaction and Human Mobility in the Late Quaternary Details of SFB 806: Our Way to Europe: Culture-Environment Interaction and Human Mobility in the Late Quaternary
Funding Programme:
- DFG - Collaborative Research Centre Details of DFG - Collaborative Research Centre
Subject:
- Agricultural Sociology
Purpose of research:
Demonstration
Funding Institutions:
- German Research Council (DFG) (DFG) Details of (DFG)
Project Management Agency:
- German Research Council (DFG) (DFG) Details of DFG