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SFB 806: Our Way to Europe: Culture-Environment Interaction and Human Mobility in the Late Quaternary
Collaborative Project
Coordinating institution:
Institute for Prehistory
Our Way To Europe concerns the history of mankind. We specifically intend to approach this with a combination of geoscientific and archaeological methods. Population dynamics and dispersal processes contributed essentially to the transmission of ideas, techniques, cultural behaviour and the formation of human societies. Major events in the history of mankind resulted due to dispersal processes. Human agency, climate and environment were certainly among the principal factors driving population mobility. Explanatory models require data, indicating to which extent single events of migration and dispersal were either supported or limited by environmental conditions in the source areas, corridors and target areas of population movements.
Collaborative Projects
Cluster A - Northeast Africa - Ways of Dispersal from the Centre of Origin
Leading institution:
Institute for Prehistory
Research projects
Cluster B - Eastern Mediterranean and Balkan Peninsula: Primary Corridor to Europe?
Leading institution:
Geographical Institute
Research projects
- SFB 806 B1: The \'Eastern Trajectory\': Last Glacial Palaeogeography and Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean and of the Balkan Peninsula
- SFB 806 B2: Climatic and Environmental History of the Balkans During the Last Glacial Cycle
- SFB 806 B3: Environmental Response on Climate Impact in the Levant during the Last Glacial and Holocene and their Role in the Origin of Agriculture
- SFB 806 B4: Climatic Evolution of the Marmara Region during the past 50,000 years
Cluster C - The Western Mediterranean - Bridge or Barrier?
Leading institution:
Foundation Neanderthal Museum
Research projects
Cluster D - Margin and Destination: Case Studies from Late Pleistocene and Holocene Europe
Leading institution:
Geographical Institute
Research projects
- SFB 806 D3: Human Impact and Colluvial Sediment Storages in Europe since the Neolithic
- SFB 806 D2: The Rise of the Cultural Landscape in Central Europe: Mobility and Human-Environment Interaction since the Neolithic
- SFB 806 D1: Analysis of Migration Processes due to Environmental Conditions between 40,000 and 14,000 a BP in the Rhine-Meuse Area
Cluster E - Contextual Change - Motor of Human Mobility?
Leading institution:
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy
Research projects
Cluster F - Setting the Time Frame: Dates and Markers of Human Dispersal
Leading institution:
Geographical Institute
Research projects
- SFB 806 F1: Application of Cosmogenic Nuclide Dating (14C and 10Be) in the Construction of High-Resolution Archaeological Chronologies
- SFB 806 F2: Application of Luminescence and Electron-Spin-Resonance-Dating in Geoarchaeological Studies
- SFB 806 F3: Black Carbon in Soils as an Indicator for Human-Environment Interactions in the Last 190,000 years
- SFB 806 F4: Climate Change in the Northern and Western Black Sea Region Based on U-Th isochron Dated Stalagmites from the Crimean Peninsula and Eastern Romania
Cluster Z - Centralised Tasks
Leading institution:
Institute for Prehistory
