Rebecca Döhl finished her master thesis in Egyptology in 2008 (Topic: „Staatentstehung im Alten Ägypten”) and is writing now a PhD thesis about Rock Art in Egypt.

In her current project, she is tackling the problem of how prehistoric rock art was introduced in order to impart symbolic significance to the containing landscape, and to integrate it into a social framework. Accordingly, focus will be given to the question of what function the rock art acquired as a means of shaping and perceiving space, and how it was used as a social instrument. Additional focus will be placed on the problem of the transformation of these images and the understanding of their associated landscape during the period of increasing settlement.