Digitale Ressourcen

ROCEEH

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.

ROCEEH

ROCEEH

A database is a valuable tool for managing the ever increasing amounts of digital data used in science and everyday life. Structure, quality assessment and accessibility of data require innovative approaches to maintain the life expectancy of a database. The challenge to build up a comprehensive system for the analysis of the early expansions of humans was triggered by our need to integrate interdisciplinary work from the fi elds of archeology, paleontology, paleoanthropology and paleogeography, as well as computer science. The ROAD database presented here is an open, web-based information system providing maps, view graphs and text explanations. It offers users the ability to carry out SQL-queries and spatial analysis about many aspects of early human expansions.

ROCEEH

ROCEEH

 

As a result of theoretical debates and case studies performed over the last years, ROCEEH has developed new views on expansions, as well as on the dynamics and interactions of human evolution. Expansions are a central concept not only for spatio-temporal dispersals in human evolution, but also for the understanding of hominin cultural capacities and the specific environment, the developmental forces and drivers in these fields, and the relationship between range, physical/mental/behavioral performances and the use of resources. Therefore, ROCEEH adjusted its objectives.The structure of the research center has matured since the initial proposal of the project and this development is represented in the status report 2016.