Geogenomic Archaeology Campus Tübingen
Diachronic impacts of humans on ecosystems using caves as models
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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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2nd GACT Workshop
On June, 6 our 2nd GACT Workshop took place in Tübingen.
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New Paper on ancient DNA
A probabilistic approach to visualize the effect of missing data on PCA in ancient human genomics
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Mew Member: Armelle Ballian
Armelle Ballian is our latest GACT member.
About Us
Find out more about the GACT-team and cooperation partners.
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