Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

Projects

Projects at MPI GEA are linked to the institute’s core research themes and are staffed by teams of interdisciplinary researchers. To learn more about a particular project, explore the links below.

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COFLAB

Extreme Events and Shocks Land Use Change and Regenerative Practices Project Transformations of Collective Behavior

The Cuneiform Digital Library Intitiative

Project The Technosphere as a Complex System

Girl power in Ancient East Asia

Project Transformations of Collective Behavior

New technologies rewriting language history

Project The Technosphere as a Complex System

Ancient Korea Initiative: ecology, archaeology and language

Land Use Change and Regenerative Practices Project

Historical ecology and linguistic reconstruction

Land Use Change and Regenerative Practices Project

Let’s do it ALL

Land Use Change and Regenerative Practices Project

The great acceleration of the loss of linguistic diversity

Great Acceleration Observatory Project

Natural disasters and language dynamics in Northeast Asia

Extreme Events and Shocks Project

The Anthropocene Engine at Sea

Anthropocene Engine Project

In response to climate change? Population and language dynamics in Northeast Asia

Anthropocene Engine Project Tipping Points and Major Transitions

Language and the Anthropocene

Project The Anthropocene Biosphere

Toward a Multi-Scale Science of Cities: Flows, Networks, and Scaling Laws

Land Use Change and Regenerative Practices Project The Technosphere as a Complex System

Cognitive Landscapes of Cities

Land Use Change and Regenerative Practices Project Transformations of Collective Behavior

What if the way we navigate a city today was shaped by choices made thousands of years ago?

‘Reverse Engineering’ Past Urban Mobilities

Land Use Change and Regenerative Practices Project The Technosphere as a Complex System

Past urban mobility used to be much more sustainable from today’s point of view. How did it work, how did it feel, and what can we learn?

Antarctic Fieldwork

Extreme Events and Shocks Great Acceleration Observatory Project Tipping Points and Major Transitions

Computational Approaches to 19th-century Thuringian Ecosystems

Project The Anthropocene Biosphere

Experimental Archaeology and the Transportation Network of Angkor

Great Acceleration Observatory Land Use Change and Regenerative Practices Project The Technosphere as a Complex System

Modeling Ancient Urban Trajectories and Land-Use Dynamics

Great Acceleration Observatory Land Use Change and Regenerative Practices Project The Technosphere as a Complex System Transformations of Collective Behavior

Developing and Testing New Field Methods for Rapidly Dating Ancient Urban Trajectories

Great Acceleration Observatory Land Use Change and Regenerative Practices Project