Kgalagadi Human Origins Project

Kgalagadi Human Origins Über das Projekt Die Emmy Noether-Gruppe “Kgalagadi Human Origins” startete im Juni 2021. Das auf sechs Jahre angelegte Projekt erforscht die Auswirkungen der extremen Klimaveränderungen im Mittel-…

Michaela Ecker leitet die #EmmyNoether-Gruppe @khoproject.bsky.social an der @uni-kiel.de. Sie erforscht die Auswirkungen extremer Klimaveränderungen im Mittel- und Spätpleistozän auf die menschliche Evolution in der südlichen Kalahari. Mehr zur Forschung 👇
🏺 #TagDerDeutschenEinheit

#TDE25 #ZukunftDurchWandel

Inèz will stay with us for another 6 month in Kiel and she has several papers in review, so watch this space! #WomenInStem #PhDlife #Postdoclife #academia

Conratulations to Inèz Faul for submitting her PhD thesis to @uni-kiel.de today 🥳 🎓 We are proud of you! Inèz studied the formation processes and past environment at pans in the #Kgalagadi #Botswana with geoarchaeological methods - and is our first PhD student to submitt!

It's already the end of this year's #fieldwork but not before we met the German Ambassador in Gaborone and made plans for the future, talking about @khoproject.bsky.social and @clusterroots.bsky.social projects.

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Beautiful panels decorate the outside of the Botswana National Museum. The renovations are almost finished, we look forward to the opening. We visited some first rooms that are open today. #archaeology 🇧🇼

We had two great days with the years standard 5,6 and 7 of Maleshe and Khisa village this week. We tried to explain our research in interactive stations in small groups - even a song was created! #ScienceCommunication #fieldwork #nextGeneration #archaeology

For us, there needs to be a choice of at least two flavours, one with chocolate of course, each day. We had people announcing strikes when biscuits were forgotten.

Save the date for UKAS 2026! The next UK Archaeological Sciences conference will be held at the University of Bristol from 31st March to 2nd April 2026.

We talked at SAfA and he couldn't come out this time, but there is a potential collaboration in planning.

Yes! We were very happy about that. I owe Matt an email in the next few days 😁

The last days we spend a lot of time with these quartzite bedrock outcrops - recording every detail 📷 📐✍️✏️ 🪨 to understand their use as raw material source during the Stone Age #fieldwork #kgalagadi. Inspired by a paper from Matt Lotter et al. 2024 in Southern African Field Archaeology

Submit an abstract to the dedicated session on use cases of the ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD) at CAA 2025 in Vienna!

S25: How to do ROAD: An Essential Tool for Conducting Multidisciplinary Studies Related to Human Evolution

Deadline: October 26th 2025
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Enjoying office hours during field work!
#womeninstem

Our geoarchaeology team led by @geoarchamelie.bsky.social has been very busy the last few days making holes, sampling and refilling them all in a day each time 💪🪏#WomenInStem #girlpower #fieldwork #kglagadi

PhD Studentship alert!
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
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We had a lot of fun excavating a small rock shelter with a stunning view yesterday. Who said there are no rock shelters in the Kalahari? Might have been our leader @isotopesrule.bsky.social ... #kgalagadi #fieldwork 🦣🏺🇧🇼

KielRegion: Science Day am 26. September Am 26. September 2025 dreht sich europaweit wieder alles um die Wissenschaft. Auch in diesem Jahr laden die wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen der KielRegion zum Science Day im Rahmen des Science Summers ein – und bieten spannende Einblicke in die Welt von Forschung und Innovation.

Am 26. September ist #ScienceDayKiel! Die #UniKiel ist u.a. mit den Exzellenzclustern PMI und @clusterroots.bsky.social, @kielunimarine.bsky.social​ im Erlebnisraum „SEALEVEL” und der Technischen Fakultät dabei.

Even a single rock has a story to tell! Botswana's landscape holds so many stories!

Enjoying #fieldwork and #geoarchaeology at
#Kgalagadi

Our team currently in the field in 🇧🇼 is having a great time #Kgalagadi #archaeology #fieldwork #WomenInSTEM @geoarchamelie.bsky.social @isotopesrule.bsky.social

When you arrive at a new pan to survey and disturb the local birds 🇧🇼 #fieldwork #Kgalagadi video by @geoarchamelie.bsky.social

Can you spot our two geoarchaeologists @geoarchamelie.bsky.social and Hannah at Tswai pan today? #Fieldwork #Botswana #Kgalagadi #SundayWork

Sunrise in Tsabong for our first day of #fieldwork 2025 #Kgalagadi #Kalahari #Botswana #nofilter

After two busy days in Gabs we are hitting the open road into the #Kalahari and are on our way to Tsabong #Kgalagadi 🇧🇼 @geoarchamelie.bsky.social @isotopesrule.bsky.social

I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR

Deadline: 30.09.2025.
Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21")

@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

After 30 hours of travel 🚙🚄✈️✈️✈️🚙 the @uni-kiel.de part of this year's @khoproject.bsky.social field team has arrived in Gaborone 🇧🇼 A cheeky Nandos was in order to recover #NandosBW #SharingIsCaring @isotopesrule.bsky.social @geoarchamelie.bsky.social

We are on our way to #Botswana! On Thursday 4th September we will be at our collaboration partner University of Botswana and @isotopesrule.bsky.social will present a talk "New insights into Stone Age sites from the southern Kgalagadi district" in the History Department Seminar Series.

Last preparations for this year's field season are under way. Starting in one week to Gaborone #Botswana with @geoarchamelie.bsky.social and the rest of the team. Our 5th field season! #archaeology #fieldwork #Kalahari #Kgalagadi

It's crunch time for our PhD student Inèz 😅 #academia #WomenInStem #PhDlife

The week has flown past and it's already the last afternoon at #SAfA2025 in Faro. We immensely enjoyed the sessions, catching up and meeting new people. Live stream of the plenary discussion has just started on @icarehb.bsky.social YouTube channel.