The Early Peopling of Amazonia and the Beginning of Plant Domestication
This project investigates: 1) the social-ecological dynamics of earliest people of Southwestern Amazonia and 2) the role these early Holocene populations played in the domestication of Neotropical plants.

AESOP - A European and South African Partnership on Heritage and Past
The AESOP is a multidisciplinary and intersectorial Erasmus Mundus consortium co-coordinated by the University Paul Sabatier-Toulouse 3 (France) and the University of the Western Cape (South Africa).

CULM - Modelado del Cultivo en la Prehistoria
Through the use of formal computational modelling and social simulation CULM explores the changes between foraging and farming economies with the aim of building new theories on why domestication processes succeeded or failed.

Forest/Savannah Ecosystems of Brazil
Identification and discrimination of forest/savannah ecosystems of Brazil on the basis of phytolith assemblages and indexes to understand past vegetation and soil genesis.

Investigating the transition from foraging to farming in southwestern Amazonia: 10,000 years of peopling and landscape anthropization
More than fifty years of archaeological research carried out throughout the Amazon basin confirmed that the territory that currently houses the largest tropical forest in the world has been inhabited by prehistoric societies for millennia before...

IPG - Developing and Testing an Integrated Paleoscape Model for the early Middle and Late Pleistocene of the South Coast of South Africa
This research examines the coupled response of people and the environment in the Cape Floral Region on the south coast of Africa to major fluctuations in global climate during the time of the origins of the modern human lineage.

Dung as Construction Material During the Emergence of Animal Domestication: A Multi-Proxy Approach
The aim of MapDung is to explore the possible early use of dung for construction as a proxy for understanding human-animal-environment relations and ecosystem.

MiSSED - Studying Micro-Scale Socio-Ecological Development In Marginal Zones: An Integrated Methodology
The aim of this project is to better understand the co-evolution of micro-environments and human occupation within the wider context of marginal socio-ecological development.

MoMArq - Modelado y Simulación de Marcadores de Actividad Antrópicas: de lo etnográfico al arqueológico
This project explores the spatial structure of domestic activities related to food production and consumption, in semi-arid areas. Models based on ethnographic informetion are tested through computational modelling and simulation.

NiCOSS - Niche Construction and Subsistence Shifts: Modelling coevolutionary dynamics between hunter-gathers and vegetation communities
This project will model, explore, and ultimately seek to understand the evolutionary feedback mechanisms between human societies and their surrounding environment during episodes of shifts in subsistence economy through case studies in India and...

NoGAP - The North Gujarat Archaeological Project
NoGAP is a collaborative initiative between Spain and India, and promotes an interdisciplinary approach, integrating environmental, archaeological and ethnoarchaeological data for studying social contacts, resource use and cultural landscape in a...

PaisArque - Paisajes Arqueológicos Inaccesibles y en Peligro
This project aims at developing a fast, low-cost and effective technique to 3D recording of endangered archaeological and cultural heritage in areas of difficult or impossible access.

PastoralMod - Modelling Pastoral Adaptation in Arid Lands: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach
A project that seeks to improve knowledge on human adaptation to arid environments through the understanding of the resilience of the Kel Tadrart Tuareg of the Acacus Mts. (SW Libya).

UFPR - Projects for the Internationalization of Higher Education Institutions - CAPES Brazil
Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) is a century-old institution of higher education with a multi-focus profile. It excels in several disciplines and is one the top 10 universities in Brazil.

SimulPast - Simulating the Past to Understand Human Behaviour
The project brings together specialists from the Social Sciences and Humanities and the Formal Sciences to develop an innovative and interdisciplinary methodological framework to model and simulate ancient societies and their relationship with...

SimulPlay - Videojuegos de simulación para el aprendizaje tecnosocial
The project aims at promoting an environment of new technoscientific culture through the use of simulation as a pedagogical tool in formal education.