Geogenomic Archaeology Campus Tübingen
Diachronic impacts of humans on ecosystems using caves as models
The Geogenomic Archaeology Campus Tübingen (GACT) focuses its investigation on caves and their sediments, since caves house unique and discrete ecosystems that can be significantly impacted by outside agents. Caves can preserve tens of thousands of years of genetic data, providing a perfect setting to investigate human-ecosystem interactions over the long term.
GACT is a multidisciplinary LeibnizScience Campus in Tübingen that brings together archaeologists, geneticists, microbiologists, geochemists, geoecologists, paleontologists, and paleoclimatologists, among others, with the ultimate goal of using ancient DNA recovered from archaeological deposits to investigate human interaction with, and impact on, past ecosystems through time. In order to achieve this goal, the Science Campus will establish new molecular, computational, geochemical and geoarchaeological methods to analyze sedimentary sequences recovered from caves.
News
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Science and Innovation Days 2024
From 15 to 18 November 2024, the University of Tübingen and several partner organisations hosted the Science & Innovation Days science festival. This year’s theme is: Arguing better. Let’s work on it together. The aim of the University of Tübingen and its partner institutions is to use the festival as a public engagement platform to…
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HEAS talk in Vienna
On October, 21st Cosimo Posth introduced goals and approaches of our GACT campus to the audience at HEAS in Vienna.
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Partnership with ERC Synergy project „Last Neanderthals“
The ERC Synergy project „Last Neanderthals“ has a partnership with GACT-members. They will sequence sedimentary ancient DNA from archaeological layers in caves dated between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago. More information about the ERC can be found on the website of the Università degli Studi di Siena.
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