Ecology of the past

The Mapping Ancient Africa (MAA) project has a double session of talks and a poster session at the INQUA congress in Rome 2023. Our session will be on Wednesday 19 July.

If you are at the INQUA Rome congress please come along to our talks and posters in Session 64: Mapping Ancient Africa: Climate, Vegetation & Humans.

Part 1: 08:30-10:30

• Giosan et al. When the desert was a lake: Providing context for Homo sapiens development in the northern Kalahari
• Chase et al. Paleolakes and socioecological implications of glacial “greening” of the South African interior
• Biddulph et al. Spatiotemporal variability in the initiation and development of peatlands across the central Congo Basin
• Blinkhorn et al. Evaluating refugia in recent human evolution in Africa
• Aureli et al. Homo sapiens behaviour and adaptation in East Africa. New evidence from an open-air site in a modern Ethiopian savannah environment: the GOT10 site
• Dembele Climatic fluctuations during the last millenium and their impact on political history and human settlements in West Africa
• Porchier et al. Annually resolved hydroclimate variability in the East African Rift Valley at a time critical for hominin dispersion
• Effiom et al. Late Holocene palaeoecological studies at Lake St Lucia, KwaZulu-Natal

Part 2: 11:00-13:00