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Sonderforschungsbereich 389 an der Universität zu Köln:
Cologne collaborative research centre "Arid, Climate, Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa" (ACACIA).
ACACIA's central topic is the historical development of the African continent and its people during the last 12,000 years in light of the complex interrelation between Man and changing environmental conditions. ACACIA is mainly financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council, DFG).

ACACIA-Projects with relevance to PAGES:
A1: Climatic Change and Human Settlement between the Nile Valley and the Central Sahara
A2:  Wadi Howar: Settlement Area and Thoroughfare at the Southern Margin of the Libyan Desert (Northwestern Sudan)
A6: Climatical und cultural History in the Ennedi-Mountains and surrounding Areas
A8: From stone to metal: Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age cultural patterns and ecological conditions between central and eastern Sahara
A9: Landscape archaeology on Boni Island (northern Sudan): Environmental potential and Holocene use history of a cataract zone in comparative perspective
B4: Palaeoecology and the Late Holocene Occupation of Northern Namibia
B5: Soils, Colluviums and Valley Sediments as Indicators of Climatic Change and Landscape Evolution
E1: GIS-based Atlas of Holocene Land Use Potential for Selected Research Areas

Weitere PAGES-relevante Forschungsprojekte am Geographisches Institut der Universität zu Köln:
- The age of glaciogenic deposits from the northern Alpine Foreland
- Dunes as terrestrial archives for Late Quaternary climate and landscape reconstruction in southern Australia
- Lateglacial and Holocene dune evolution in the European Sand Belt
- Guidelines and typologies for water courses in Germany


For additional contributions, improvements, etc. concerning the German National PAGES web page, please contact Bert Rein.