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ROCEEH Out of Africa Database

At the core of the project is the compilation of data about archaeological and paleoanthropological sites within the chronological and geographic range. Information about the sites and their associated assemblages is accessible in different types of publications and databases. By collecting data systematically and placing it at the disposal of other researchers, ROCEEH freely offers access to information that is otherwise not readily accessible. Thus, ROCEEH enhances the knowledge available about the cultural heritage of our deep past. These data are organized in a multidisciplinary, web-based, geo-relational database known as ROAD (ROCEEH Out of Africa Database) with advanced geographical information system (GIS) functionality. Thus ROAD unifies geographical data about sites with information about their stratigraphy and the cultural finds those layers contain. In addition, ROAD assimilates information on human fossil history, fauna, flora, and climate, and provides this information to model early human habitats. In addition to compiling data systematically, the ROCEEH team analyzes the content of the ROAD database through case studies which examine different cultural phenomena. The results are integrated into a digital atlas detailing the development of humans and the environment.

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Recent Newsletters

Newsletter 18-2021

Contents:

ROCEEH

What was on the menu of Paranthropus boisei?
ROAD & the ARIADNEplus Catalog
Being Human // The Origins of Our Culture - An exhibition at the Archeology Museum Frankfurt in cooperation with ROCEEH
Conference Report “Human Origins – Digital Future”, July 27-31, 2020 - online

Newsletter 17-2020

Contents:

ROCEEH

Use-wear analysis of stone tools from Late Pleistocene sites in Wallacea (Riczar Fuentes)
ROAD as a data publication tool (Zara Kanaeva)
NeMo - An agent-based model for Neanderthal foraging (Ericson Hölzchen)

Newsletter 16-2019

Contents:

ROCEEH

Early Pleistocene climate of the Iberian Peninsula during the first hominin colonization (Y. Altolaguirre Zancajo)
What's it all about? Continuity, changes and surprises in the Paleolithic art of Central Europe (Ewa Dutkiewicz)
Session Report "Human and non-human responses to the Mid-Pleistocene transition" at the INQUA 2019 conference in Dublin, Ireland (Ericson Hölzchen)

Newsletter 15-2019

Contents:

ROCEEH

The importance of re-evaluating the Aurignacian industry for understanding the Early Upper Paleolithic (A. Falcucci)
Umbeli belli Rock Shelter in KwaZulu Natal - Current results on the final MSA of southern Africa (G.D. Bader & N.J. Conard)
Geomorphological field campaign in KwaZulu-Natal (RSA) in spring 2018 (C. Sommer)
ROAD Training Event in Mohali, India (C. Herter & A.W. Kandel)

Newsletter 14-2018

Contents:

ROCEEH

The beginning of ochre use during the Stone Age of Africa (A. Kandel & R. Dapschauskas)
Multiple facets of cumulative culture (M. Haidle)
Conference Report
"KULT-UR-MENSCH" (M. Haidle, M. Bolus & C. Hertler)
Conference Report
46th Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology
"Human History and Digital Future" (C. Sommer & V. Hochschild)
Conference Report
"Images, gestures, voices, lives. What can we learn from Paleolithic art?" (M. Haidle & M. Porr)

Newsletter 13-2017

Contents:

ROCEEH

Swabian Ice Age caves declared as World Heritage sites (M.N. Haidle)
The archaeology of irrationality: Interrogating Paleolithic art and modern human origins (M. Porr)
ROCEEH expedition to the Narmada Valley, Central India (C. Hertler)
Conference report
"Keep calm and boldly go - Which factors in the environment drive early human expansions and have an impact on their settlements?" (C. Hertler, E. Hölzchen, S. haupt, Z. Kanaeva)
Conference report
Sixth Biennial Conference of the Eastern African Association for Paleoanthropology and Paleontology (EAAPP) (C. Hertler)

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Status Report 2016

Brochures

ROAD Brochure 2-2018 (Applications)

ROCEEH

In this second ROAD brochure, we focus on the practical applications that ROAD offers its users. ROAD provides a synopsis of prehistoric sites and cultures, opening up the deep past of humankind to further exploration. ROAD allows its users to compare, combine, analyze and visualize information about achaeological and paleoanthropological sites. We hope that ROAD will help scientists and the general public to better understand the wide spectrum of our cultural heritage.