Projektnummer

0051944

Zusammenfassung

The main goals of the project are to reconstruct in detail the early Pleistocene vegetation and climate history in Armenia based on various fossil plant remains (leaves, fruits and seeds, pollen, phytoliths). Moreover, other fossil groups (diatoms, molluscs, fishes, insects) will help to identify the entire environment in and around the lake(s) in order to draw a complete picture of how suitable the landscape was for human occupation at that time. Quantitative climate data derived from fossil floras will serve the understanding of the regional climate development in high-resolution, an...