01/10/2011 to 30/09/2014
Divergent pathways to early food production and early complex societies: archaeozoological data from northeastern Africa
Through archaeozoological analyses the project aims at demonstrating that possible pathways to food production, resulting in the rise of complex societies and probably the most important development in human history, are very diverse and that the models from Eurasia are not valid in Africa. The role of the natural environment is thereby tested.