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Michael Chazan
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Latest funding
- $321,570
Exploring early hominin response to the Kalahari Basin infill at Kathu Pan, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $222,631
The Archaeology of the Precursors of Modern Humans at Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $2,396,150
Computational Research on the Ancient Near East - CRANE: large-scale data integration and analysis in Near Eastern archaeology
SSHRC · 2018 · Co-investigator
No publications available.
Exploring early hominin response to the Kalahari Basin infill at Kathu Pan, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Principal investigators: Chazan, Michael
The Archaeology of the Precursors of Modern Humans at Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa
Principal investigators: Chazan, Michael
Keywords: archaeology; human origins; South Africa
Computational Research on the Ancient Near East - CRANE: large-scale data integration and analysis in Near Eastern archaeology
Keywords: anthropocene; climate change; paleoecology; early civilizations; Near Eastern archaeology; cyberinfrastructure; digital repositories; data integration; computer simulation; 3D visualization
Computational Research on the Ancient Near East - CRANE: large-scale data integration and analysis in Near Eastern archaeology
Keywords: anthropocene; climate change; paleoecology; early civilizations; Near Eastern archaeology; cyberinfrastructure; digital repositories; data integration; computer simulation; 3D visualization
Alternative evolutionary pathways in marginal zones: the case of the mountain Kura-Araxes cultural tradition
Principal investigators: Chazan, Michael
Keywords: archaeology; ethnicity; cultural change; migration; adaptation; ancient trade; social organization; ritual
The evolution of the use of fire from the Oldowan to the Late Stone Age at Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa
Principal investigators: Berna, Francesco
Keywords: fire; human evolution
Early hominin innovation and technological change: investigations in the Northern Cape province, South Africa
Principal investigators: Chazan, Michael
Keywords: archaeology; human evolution; anthropology; paleolithic
Computational research on the ancient near east: an archaeological data integration, simulation, and 3-D visualization initiative
Keywords: early civilizations; near eastern archaeology; sociopolitical complexity; social networks; cyberinfrastructure; digital repositories; data integration; computer simulation; 3-D visualization
Early hominin innovation and technological change: research in the Northern Cape province, South Africa and the Araba, Jordan
Principal investigators: Chazan, Michael
Keywords: archaeology; excavation; survey; analysis
Early hominin innovation and technological change: research in the Northern Cape province, South Africa
Principal investigators: Chazan, Michael
Keywords: archaeology; human evolution; prehistory; lithic analysis
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