If we want to conserve ecosystems that escaped European exploitation and mismanagement, we must start listening to environmental histories to compliment scientific research.
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Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
The Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena was founded in 2014 (as the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) to target fundamental questions of human history and evolution since the Paleolithic. From the vantage point of three interdisciplinary research departments – the Department of Archaeogenetics (Director Johannes Krause), the Department of Archaeology (Director Nicole Boivin), and the Department of Cultural and Linguistic Evolution (Director Russell Gray) – the institute pursues an integrative approach to the study of human history that bridges the traditional divide between the natural sciences and the humanities.
By assembling experts from research areas as diverse as palaeogenetics, proteomics, bioinformatics, anthropology, archaeology, history, and quantitative linguistics, the MPI-SHH seeks to join and advance a broad range of methods, approaches, and datasets to explore big questions of the human past. Using state-of-the-art analytical techniques and technologies, the institute tackles these and other topics:
– The settlement history of the world through past human migrations and genetic admixture events
– The spread and diversification of human-associated microbes and infectious diseases
– The impact of climatic and environmental change on human subsistence in different world regions
– Human modification of ecosystems
– The rise of early forms of global trade systems
– The spread and diversification of languages, cultures, and social practices
– The co-evolution of genes and culture
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Kami telah menemukan bukti baru bahwa manusia di India selamat dari letusan Toba dan terus berkembang setelahnya.
Un estudio de abalorios de cáscara de huevo de avestruz, un hallazgo común en las excavaciones arqueológicas, muestra una panorámica cultural cambiante de las traiciones de las comunidades cazadoras-recolectoras y las pastorales.
An archaeological site in India sheds new light on how ancient humans dispersed from Africa across the world.
A survey of San ostrich eggshell beads - a common find at archaeological sites - paints a bigger picture of hunter-gatherers, herders and shifting cultural tradition.
Hundreds of archaeologists provided on-the-ground data from across the globe, providing a new view of the long and varied history of people transforming Earth’s environment.
Male monks were not the sole producers of books throughout the Middle Ages.
Le Color Game est la première application sur smartphone destinée à générer des données permettant d’étudier l’émergence et l’évolution d’un langage en temps réel.
Each discipline tells us only part of the story. And so the truest picture of prehistory comes from triangulating these independent lines of evidence.
Aboriginal people stayed settled in places across Australia for 50,000 years until Europeans arrived, showing a strong connection with the land.
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Independent Max Planck research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Linguistics, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Doctoral Researcher, Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Independent Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Doctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Research Affiliate in Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Professor, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
