{"id":1227,"date":"2019-12-05T10:09:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T09:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/entangled-africa\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2021-04-01T11:04:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T09:04:16","slug":"report_2019_05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/entangled-africa\/en\/report_2019_05\/","title":{"rendered":"SPP Networking Meeting \u201cNatural Sciences\u201d, November 18-19, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SPP Networking Meeting \u201cNatural Sciences\u201d,\nNovember 18-19, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within the\nSPP, several projects explore past climate and ecosystem changes, land-use\npatterns and subsistence strategies as well as landscape transformations. The\nprojects tap different archives and proxies, such as anthracology (charcoal\nanalysis), pollen analysis, wood cell structures (on tree rings), geochemistry\n(on lake sediments), remote sensing, topographic mapping or\ngeomorphology.,&nbsp; A central aspects is to\naccount for the influence of climate and environment onto trajectories of human\nhistory, and vice versa the human impact as a factor in environmental changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nobjective of the first meeting of the researchers applying natural sciences\nwithin the SPP was to develop first coherence issues, transcending the spatial\nand\/or temporal overlap of the respective project\u2019s research periods and areas,\nas well as methodological conformities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the\nfirst discussions, two major thematic coherence issues emerged:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Climatic changes. <\/strong>Within this topic,regional and temporal scopes of\ninvestigation differ to some extent depending on the proxies examined. The\nsupra-regional impacts of climate developments will foster discussions crossing\nprojects borders, derived e.g. from multiple tree ring parameters informing\nabout temperature and\/or precipitation changes and\/or its seasonality\nalterations. Local and regional climatic variations will contribute to the\nunderstanding of living conditions on the spot and in a wider region,\nreconstructed by e.g. geochemistry and pollen analysis.<\/li><li><strong>Anthropogenic changes of the environment.\n<\/strong>Their investigation\ncomprises local to regional geomorphological as well as ecosystem changes.\nLandforms such as holloways and gullies inform about routes between settlements\nand about landscape transformation through humans. Botanical archives inform\nabout transformation of ecosystems through plant cultivation, plant\npropagation, other land-use patterns and other interchanges of biota.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These two\nkey aspects reveal the potential of entangled archaeological and natural palaeo-science\nresearch within the SPP &#8211; in line with the understanding that \u201cEntangled\nAfrica\u201c &nbsp;includes entanglement of people\nas well as entanglements of ecosystems, landscapes and climate. Disentangling\nthese cultural and environmental interrelations requires a broad interdisciplinary\napproach. The natural sciences will &nbsp;trace\nanthropogenic land cover changes, mobility routes, regional to subcontinental\npropagation processes of e.g. crop plants, as well as climate-driven landscape\nand ecosystem changes as part of local to (supra-)regional cultural\ndevelopments..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concerning methodological conformities, it quickly turned out that that similar data types are generated and analyzed, such as count and measurement values, remote sensing data, etc. This will facilitate data exchange and offers the possibility to store data in common databases. It was decided that site-centered paleoecological data, stored in, or convertible to csv. files, will eventually be integrated into Neotoma Paleoecology Database and Community (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.neotomadb.org\/\">https:\/\/www.neotomadb.org\/<\/a>). <br>This allows to use the data exploration tools offered by Neotoma and include data generated outside the own project into analyses. Mapping data for analysis evolved to be another common approach of several projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/entangled-africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/2-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1233\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/entangled-africa\/?attachment_id=1233\" class=\"wp-image-1233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/entangled-africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/2-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/entangled-africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/entangled-africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/2-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">fig. 1 \/ J. Sigl<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/entangled-africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/3-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1234\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/entangled-africa\/?attachment_id=1234\" class=\"wp-image-1234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/entangled-africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/3-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/entangled-africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/3-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/entangled-africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/3-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">fig. 2 \/ J. Sigl<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The two-day networking meeting was hosted by Deutsches Arch\u00e4ologisches Institut, Referat Naturwissenschaften, with the support of the program coordination project. Participating were Mich\u00e8le Dinies (Berlin), Alexa H\u00f6hn (Frankfurt), Jacob Hardt (Berlin), Ingo Heinrich (Berlin), Philipp Hoelzmann (Berlin), Judicael Lebamba (K\u00f6ln), Reinder Neef (Berlin), Lena Schimmel (Berlin), Johanna Sigl (Bonn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authors: Alexa H\u00f6hn and Mich\u00e8le Dinies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change and anthropogenic changes in the environment are two topics on which the projects working in the natural sciences in the SPP exchange information. 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