Start of the DFG Priority Programme 2361 “On the Way to the Fluvial Anthroposphere”
Kick-off-meeting took place in Leipzig, 9th to 10th March 2023
2023/03/31 by Gerrit Jasper Schenk
The DFG Priority Programme 2361 “On the Way to the Fluvial Anthroposphere” is based on the key hypothesis of a pre-modern emergence of a Fluvial Anthroposphere. All sub-projects of the Priority Programme investigate medieval and pre-industrial floodplains and fluvial societies in the Rhine, Danube and Elbe river systems and asks when and why humans became a significant controlling factor in floodplain formation. The Priority Programme is committed to multidisciplinary approaches from history, archaeology, and geosciences.
During the kick-off-meeting the principal investigators and the committee of the Priority Programme 2361 have presented the aims and perspectives of the individual sub-projects and have developed guiding strategies for cross-project cooperation. The coordinator (Christoph Zielhofer) and the committee (Natascha Mehler, Gerrit Jasper Schenk, Lukas Werther) have invited all principal investigators to the premises of the Leipzig Lab at Leipzig University for initial discussions and coordination.