The Fifth Cataract Project
This project explores the area of the Fifth Cataract in Sudan with the aim to understand and reconstruct population dynamics over time, past land use and human adaptation to climatic- and environmental changes. This will be achieved through a...

EXPAND: Examining Pan-Neotropical Diasporas
The aim of the project is to integrate archaeology, paleoecology and computer modelling to test the role of climate change in the dispersal of tropical forest farmers out of Amazonia during the late Holocene.

RAINDROPS
RAINDROPS aims to provide a long-term perspective on human adaptation to and the establishment of resilient cultivation systems in drylands.

Holocene Global Landuse (HOLA)
Holocene Global Landuse (HoLa) is an interdisciplinary working group dedicated to reconstructing land use across the Holocene through a global, comparative perspective.

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.

Protein and Lipid analysis of Ancient Ceramics in South Asia
South Asia has a rich and varied culinary past, with evidence of the domestication of a range of plants and animals in the Neolithic period as well as the adoption of new crops and animals throughout prehistory and history. Techniques in...

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.

GEA: Geo-EthnoArchaeology of the use of space
The objective of GEA is to generate a richer archaeological record through an innovative geo-ethnoarchaeological methodology applied to the anthropogenic sediments at Stone Walled Sites

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.

Land Use: from Global to Local
Earth system models help us to understand the earth system as a whole, elucidate the drivers of change, and provide future scenarios for policymakers. It is thus critical that we continue to improve them. A major research inquiry that crosscuts...

LandCover6k - Past Global Changes
The goal of PAGES’ LandCover6k Working Group is to use pollen, archaeological and historical data to provide information on past land cover and land use change.

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.

Moving Marketplaces (MMP): Following the Everyday Production of Inclusive Public Spaces
Investigating both rural and urban marketplaces across four countries MMP uses a translocal perspective to help deepen theoretical and empirical understandings of how marketplaces are produced as inclusive spaces.

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...