2022 News from the MPI of Geoanthropology

Research into Impacts of Human Occupation on the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest Receives Funding

Research teams from the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (Germany), Bournemouth University (UK), and the University of Göttingen, have been jointly funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) of the United Kingdom more

Humans Struggle to Identify Aggression in Dogs, Other Humans

Researchers showed participants videos of human, dog, and macaque pairs to determine how well humans assess social interactions more

Interdisciplinary Environmental History: How Narratives of the Past can meet the Challenges of the Anthropocene

A new paper in the journal Annales discusses vital methodological issues for humanities-based historical inquiry and argues that the challenges of the Anthropocene demand interdisciplinary research informed by a variety of historical narratives more

Charcoal and Cattle Correlate with Madagascar’s Megafaunal Extinctions

A new study suggests that changes in land use within the last millennia drove the extinction of Madagascar’s giant animals more

Renaming of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History

New research focus in the field of geoanthropology more

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