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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New GACT Postdoc started
Since March, 15 we have a new postdoc in our team! Dr. Susanne Zabel began her postdoctoral research in March at the Geogenomic Archaeology Campus Tübingen (GACT), co-supervised by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Cosimo Posth and Prof. Dr. Detlef Weigel in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biology and the University of Tübingen. During her…
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GACT in Serbia
New publication about our sampling trip in the Senckenberg Magazin.
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Sampling protocol online
Sampling protocol for obtaining sediment from archaeological excavations in caves and rockshelters for the purposes of biomolecular analyse
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