About IFG Method

METHOD is the acronym for Modelling EnvironmenTal dynamics and HOminin Dispersals around the Mid-Pleistocene Revolution. We are an International Focus Group (IFG) aimed to the study of the influence of the Mid-Pleistocene Revolution (MPR) on ecosystems and on human survival and evolution

An International Focus Group (IFG) is a non-permanent collaboration network, funded by the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA). IFGs are designed to address specific scientific issues of wide international significance. Thus. an IFG does not represent a field of study (which is the role of INQUA Commissions) but it rather seeks to answer specific scientific questions.

The study of complex phenomena requires the contribution and cooperation of researchers from several fields. During the last decades, paleontologists, paleoanthropologists and archaelogists produced spatio-temporal and taxonomically organized datasets describing hominin distribution and databases cpmtaining quantitative palaeoenvironmental and palaeoecological data.