Elena A Hensel-Karamalakidou
@geoarchamelie.bsky.social
Geoarchaeology • Past Environment • Micromorphology & Sedimentology • East & Southern Africa • PostDoc @uni-kiel.de
Congratulations to ROOTS deputy speaker @eecke.bsky.social. She was elected president of the @deuqua.bsky.social at this year’s DEUQUA conference in Freiburg. #quaternary #QuaternaryScience #DeuQua
Eileen Eckmeier elected President of the German Quaternary Association
ROOTS deputy speaker takes on voluntary role at DEUQUA for four years.
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Anyone planning to publish on open-air sites in southern Africa? Here’s your chance to submit a manuscript to the Special Issue: “Challenges and opportunities of surface sites: The Kalahari basin and adjoining arid regions” of the African Archaeological Review. link.springer.com/collections/...
Special Issue: Challenges and opportunities of surface sites: The Kalahari basin and adjoining arid regions
The Kalahari basin is the largest semi-desert in southern Africa, however, for too long this area has been neglected in human evolution research in favour of ...
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Who would like to talk about the #roots of social, environmental, and cultural connectivity of the past while enjoying the fresh breeze of the Baltic Sea? Then don’t forget to submit an abstract to the Kiel Conference 2027 until 15 October. All infos: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r...
A few of the faces kicking off KHO Fieldwork 2026! Researchers & collaborators from archaeology, geoarcheology, geophysics & visual communication design have gathered in Tsabong, Botswana. #fieldworkfriday @isotopesrule.bsky.social @geoarchamelie.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de @clusterroots.bsky.social
Hello my little friend. Please show us the way to your toilet… we want to date it 🤭 #kgalagadi #hyrax #fieldwork
Good morning Tsabong #Kgalagadi. The sun has given us a warm welcome (during breakfast at 2 degrees Celsius 😄). What a great start for this year‘s #fieldwork in the #Kalahri. I am happy to be back with the @khoproject.bsky.social
A very demanding interruption to my work-from-home-flow :-)
Even a single rock has a story to tell! Botswana's landscape holds so many stories! Enjoying #fieldwork and #geoarchaeology at #Kgalagadi
Our team currently in the field in 🇧🇼 is having a great time #Kgalagadi #archaeology #fieldwork #WomenInSTEM @geoarchamelie.bsky.social @isotopesrule.bsky.social
When you arrive at a new pan to survey and disturb the local birds 🇧🇼 #fieldwork #Kgalagadi video by @geoarchamelie.bsky.social
New paper from our project 📢 Inèz Faul et al. "Dune, outcrop, and pan sediments from the southern Kalahari Basin: A geoarchaeological case study from the Kgalagadi district, Botswana" in Southern African Field Archaeology. #openaccess #Geoarchaeology 🦣🇧🇼 Link 👇 doi.org/10.36615/saf...
Southern African Field Archaeology
Research from the southern Kalahari Basin (previously considered to be of limited Pleistocene archaeological significance) has provided evidence of human occupation. Surveys and excavations conducted ...
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