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Philosophische FakultätInstitut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte

Human-Environment Interactions in the Deep Human Past

This seminar series covers the way humans shaped their environments and expanded their niche in deep time, considering the societal and ecological feedbacks and their significance for the Roots of the present day Anthropocene Era. The series covers both multidisciplinary case studies, as well as applied methods to give a rounded understanding of key emerging research themes, and how these questions are addressed. You will be introduced to island ecosystems, African rainforests, and Arabian deserts among other biomes connected to the deep human past. You will also learn about different statistical methods of analysis for climate and ecosystems, as well as the fundamentals of geochronology, zooarchaeology, and palynology for reconstructions of past human environments and their temporal contexts. Together, these lectures will enable you to develop a strong grasp of the cutting-edge of research concerned with understanding the ‘ecological modernity’ of our species. 

Thursdays 2pm, 1 hour slot with time for questions

https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/64735142219?pwd=jSZ41HxyaLEu3krhWlitaoH1mYIB1s.1

Meeting ID: 647 3514 2219

Passcode: 114490

  1. Dr Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie  (24.10.2024): Humans in aquatic landscapes: a view from Holocene West Africa
  2. Dr James Blinkhorn (31.10.24): Biogeographies and behaviours of early human dispersals
  3. Dr Alex Blackwood (07.11.24): The origins of modern humans in the African archaeological record
  4. Dr Margherita Colucci (14.11.2024): Diseases and human co-evolution: modelling malaria spread in the late Pleistocene 
  5. Dr Lucy Timbrell (21.11.2024): What drives technological variation in hunter-gatherer populations? Insights from the deep and recent past 
  6. Dr Khady Niang (28.11.2024): Journey through time : the legacy of African Middle Stone Age
  7. Dr Mario Mata-González (05.12.2024): What’s on the menu? New insights on Middle Paleolithic hominin diet and hunting strategies in Eurasia
  8. Dr Andrés Curras (12.12.24): Pollen Analysis in the context of Landscape Archaeology Research
  9. Dr Eleanor Scerri (19.12.2024): Human Habitat Islands and Ecological Consequences
  10. Dr Michela Leonardi (09.01.2025): Palaeoecology at a large scale: an easy how-to with an example on early Homo sapiens
  11. Dr Huw Groucutt (16.01.2025): The Archaeology of Deserts 
  12. Dr Eslem Ben Arous (23 of January 2025):  Recent developments in chronological tools and their implications for the human evolution in Africa
  13. Dr Eleanor Scerri) (30.01.2025): Discussion session