There are very few palaeoenvironmental studies in the low latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere–especially in Mozambique. Integration of archaeological and paleonenvironmental research is also extremely rare in the region.

InMoz studies the Quaternary environmental evolution of this area and its forcing factors (including global climate change and local forcers). The project seeks to better understand global spatial climate patterns and forcing processes; understand how climate and environmental changes influenced human evolution and human settlement patterns in the Inhambane area; and shed light on landscape modification due to human activities such as agriculture.